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Summary: Pretty good
Review: It's true I have less respect for Salvatore than other sci-fi/fantasy writers like C.S. Lewis and Douglas Adams, because he uses the D&D world. Most of his adventures are indeed much like D&D campaigns, but the main reason the books are so jam-packed with fighting is because everyone hates Drizzt and he has to fight all the time, and guys like Artemis Entreri (THE MAN) and Jarlaxle just like to fight. There is a plot to all of these battles: Read the Dark Elf Trilogy first and then the Icewind Dale Trilogy, and then the Legacy. Drizzt has a history of not getting along with Entreri, and the whole thing with the Spider Queen was pretty good too. For those of you who thought this book had no plot, it was probably because it was the first one you read and actually a continuation of a plot that you never got because you never read the earlier stuff, which is excellent. Most of you couldn't write anything better, and even if you did there would be someone in the world who hated it. I know people who hate Ender's Game. Hey, I know people who hate the original STAR WARS stuff.
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Summary: The story simply grab your imagination and make it live!
Review:
This is not a novel for writers, for intellectuals or academics in literature. This is a novel to enjoy. To let it be in your dreams.
Drizzt, the main character, is in a struggle now to see if he made the right choice by leaving Menzoberranzan, his homeplace, and stays with his friends in the surface. By the action of the story and the events about his friends, he realize, at the end how powerful are the ties of his drow society and how an individual is always part of the whole scene.
The only flaw is that you have to be a d&d player, or at least, a role playing games player to understand some cues and relationships between characters and the environment.
Enjoy it!
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Summary: It's about what you'd expect based on other salvatore books
Review: I have read the Icewind Dale Trilogy and the Dark Elf Trilogy and have started on the Legacy of the Drow series. The Legacy is a good book, R.A. Salvatore is a good author, and Drizzt is an excellent character. I have noticed some recurring problems in Salvatore's books I have read so far. For instance, in the Icewind Dale Trilogy, Drizzt's attacks were always "whirring scimitars." He has gotten away from that and now has different descriptions, but still has kind of the same problem of using certain words repeatedly. In "The Exile," for example, everyone "retorts." Noone ever "responds" or "answers." What keeps coming up in "The Legacy" is the word indomitable. It's a powerful word that should have a great connotation, and it simply loses its meaning after being used 25 times. That said, however, the character's are pretty good (I particularly like the villians Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle), and I obviously like Salvatore as an author as I have read now 7 of his books. The common word repeatings is the biggest reason I didn't give it 5 stars.
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Summary: FANTASIC!!!
Review: Definitely GREAT Fantasy epics and my personal favorites, The Dark Elf Trilogy-Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn, as well as The Icewind Dale Trilogy- The Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver, and The Halfling's Gem bring to life the story of the good hearted dark elf ranger Drizzt Do'Urden and his adventures in the magical World of Faerun. Legacy, Starless Nights, Siege of Darkness and Passage to Dawn are the continuation of these adventures in a way that you keep coming back for more and more and more... The books are all so incredibly well written that the reader feels that they have been transported to another universe and are actually present among the characters, seeing what they see, feeling what they feel, sensing what they sense. RA Salvatore has truly outdone himself and has presented us with a masterpiece of literature the likes of which we have seen only in JRR Tolkien's work and in authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends trilogies. Duty, honor, bravery, magic, and swordfights are all about. One should seriously start thinking about maybe turning them into movies...
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Summary: Now we're talking.
Review: 4.5 starsThe Dark Elf Trilogy was probably the best trilogy I ever read, with Homeland and Exile both being 5 star books. I next read the Icewind Dale Trilogy, and it was pretty good, but not near the level of the DET (No big surprise there, it's what he wrote first). This quartet he wrote after both trilogies, and I was excited to get back to the level of writing that so enthralled me while reading the DET. This book delivered as promised. The only thing that kept me from giving this book 5 stars was the fact that the writing wasn't quite up at the level of Homeland, and (probably because most of the action takes plan in the span of a day) it didn't leave as much of a lasting impact. However, this book starts as a great introduction, and doesn't fail anywhere else. It starts off right after the end of The Halfling's Gem, book 3 of the IDT. Since the book is so short, I won't give away any plot details, but just suffice it to say that trouble soon arrives for Dritzz and friends in the form of those deadly masters of combat known as the drow. It was nice for me to see characters like Bruenor, Wulfgar, and Cattie-brie (characters not in the DET) endowed with new depths and characterized more realistically. It was nice to be returned to that previous form of writing that gripped me when I first started reading Salvatore. Once trouble arrives at Dritzz's doorstep, the action takes off at a bang and doesn't stop until the end. I finished this book in two days, would have finished it in one if not for school, and that's fast for me. For those of you who complained about the action, I really don't see what your problem is. It's like you're saying "Let's get rid of that more interesting stuff so we can make the story more dull." If it was mindless action I might have had a problem, but it wasn't. This book is gripping from start to finish, action-packed and at the same time emotionally-charged. It has many well-drawn characters, a complex plot, and many plot twists. Also, in the IDT characters tended to be a little superheroish, and that tendency is gone here; now he's playing for keeps. This book delivers on everything that matters and lacks in nothing, except on that lasting impact I mentioned earlier. This is a very entertaining and gripping novel that deserves everything it's earned.
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Summary: One of Salvatore's best Drizzt books.
Review: This book starts the 3rd series starring the famous Dark Elf Drizzt Do'Urden. As the reviewer before me said, I would highly advise that you read the Dark Elf Trillogy and the Icewind Dale Trillogy before starting this series. This book starts soon after the book "The Halflings Gem" (icewind dale book 3) ends. In "The Legacy", we find Drizzt and the Companions of the Hall living happy lives in the new home of Mithril Hall. But the peace doesnt last long. The evil world of the Drow is not finished with Drizzt and want revenge for leaving their city in torment. The spider queen orders the 1st house to the drow city to attact Mithril hall and find Drizzt. This soon to be war with the Dark elves starts in this book and continues throughout the series "The Legacy of the Drow". Drizzt is forced to begin this war with his evil kin and his life will never be the same, also, we will lose a dear friend in this great novel. 5 stars for this book. READ IT.
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