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Summary: Great Drow Book!
Review: When I first started this book, I wasn't interested. A few chapters in, I fell in love with it.If you are a fan of R.A. Salvatore, You must own this novel! Take my advice because I am a HUGE fan of R.A. Salvatore! BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: 4 books in one, and all great! The battles in the Underedark are breathtaking, and many old enemies come into play agin. The characters are anything but flat and change a lot. Many spectacular fights, and with salvatore's colorful writing, they're that much better. Also, humor sprinkled throught the book for a little comic releif (tactic vs. mind flayers: polymorph to switch brain and rear). Also, it spreads a bit from Mithril Hall and Icewind Dale, since they go on the sea voyage which leads to some awesome battles, but why am I writing this, just buy it, it's well worth it!!
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Summary: Best Fantasy
Review: A couple of years ago, i was at an AD&D getogether with some friends. It was my first time, and i absolutely loved it, so the host took out a book. It was an old, grey book, battered and well-read - The Icewind Dale Trilogy. I borrowed it, but unfortunately, i didn't get to read it right away. Some time later, i saw the book on my bookshelf (and no, i have yet to return it) and didn't have anything else to read, so i turned the first few pages, just reading through fast. When i got to page 20, i had alread moved into a comfortable position, and at page 30, i didn't register what happened around me. That book was probably the best book i had read at that point, and i so wanted more.
A year passed or so, without reading any other in the series, since my local bookstore didn't have any of them. But then, when walking in Copenhagen just a two weeks ago, i saw a bookstore, and thought i would take a look inside. After a bit of searching i found Salvatore's books, and there i saw it. A heaven of Forgotten Realms books. Seeing i was low on money, i chose just one, and this was the Legacy of the Drow, which i found to be the next in the series after the Icewind Dale Trilogy. All the way home (on the train) i read, and when i layed down in bed to go to sleep that night, i had covered the first 200 pages.
Once again, you are taken into the great fantasy world. Once again, you find yourself imagining the glorious sights and fights, and a sligh, foolish wish to be inside the story, right next to the companions, passes through your mind.
These books invites you to learn even more about the ways of the Drow, of love, of friendship and of loss. Never have i been so much taken away by a book than this, and i will always be a true fan of the series.
If you liked the other books, you will love this one. Forget that -- if you haven't read the other books, and you read this one, you WILL love it, period. The book leaves such a big impact on me. So big, in fact, that i actually cried in the very end of the last book, because of my attatchment to the characters, and i was truly overwhelmed by their happiness. Over what, you ask? Read, and you will know, and you will surely be just as touched as i.
"Or i'm a bearded gnome!"
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Summary: Enjoyed reading this one
Review: After finishing the Icewind Dale series I wanted to jump to the next series. I wanted to go with the flow of the story line so I didn't read the Dark Elf Trilogy, and instead went to this one (Legacy of the Drow). I was very pleased after reading this series. Salvatore's descriptions during fight/battle sequences are what I noticed first when reading his writing. You feel like you don't miss a single move when reading one of these scenes. Another thing I liked about this series in particular is the characters really start to come alive. Drizzt and friends have very interesting backgrounds, most of the time their pasts coming back to haunt each character. You start to understand each characters traits and you see how it effects their actions throughout the story.
I've been a fan of the fantasy genre for a while now. Whether it's movies, video games or books. Salvatore is a good author to look into if you want to start reading some fantasy fiction. I would start with the Dark Elf Trilogy or the Icewind Dale Trilogy if you are starting out. This is a definite recommendation to those that finished and enjoyed reading the Icewind Dale Trilogy.
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Summary: One of Salvatore's best collections
Review: After reading the Dark Elf trilogy, this book provides further stories of what happens to Drizzt. The epic story is in-depth so I would not read through it fast. Overall, it satisfies your desire of wanting to know what happened in Menzoborrean when Drizzt left. Although it is a good collection of books, I would not rate it perfect because it is time consuming to read it all. And when you are finished with just this collection you are hooked and want to read the all other collections. I would recommend this collection of books only for Drizzt fans, unless you read the other books before this collection.
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Summary: Lots of fighting-needs more of a plot
Review: As much as I love Salvatore, I have to say that this book really needs more of a plot. The plot there is is very good, and I enjoyed it. But there were lots of fight scenes. While Salvatore is a great author, and he does fighting scenes very well, I think he needs to try adding a few not-so-sword-and-dagger scenes.
It's got plenty of humor, too, though (a certain new dwarf character for example), and some strange goblin things. But there is also something to learn about our favorite characters, Regis in particular. If you want to know what I'm talking about, read the book!!!
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Summary: A Master Of The Fantasy Realm
Review: As with practically all of his books on and about the famed Drizzt Do'Urden, R.A. Salvatore has created yet another MASTERPIECE!! Salvatores ability to capture his reader, and make them feel every part of his books is truly exceptional. When you pick up this book and begin to read it, I know you will be like many of the others who have read before you. Which is entranced with the action, adventure, heroics, love, and best of all, suprise and suspense that Salvatore has incorparated in this novel!! R.A. Salvatore, truly an incredible figure and mediator to the fantasy novelists.
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Summary: Salvatore just seems to get better with age...
Review: Authors seldom maintain the same quality of writing throughout their entire career. They either splash onto the scene with an outstanding work that proves to be their best, or they creep out, honing their skill as time goes on.Salvatore isn't a literary genius, but the more he writes, the better he gets. Unlike Robert Jordan, who can't seem to sustain the energy or interest level in his plodding, soap-opera like epics, Salvatore keeps things simple, fast, and enjoyable. Yet, at the same time, his flagship character, Drizzt Do'Urden, only seems to become deeper and more interesting as he matures. In "Legacy of the Drow", Salvatore takes the characters and plot threads introduced in "Icewind Dale" and the "Dark Elf Trilogy" and runs them through a thousand-page wringer. Starting with "The Legacy", we are re-introduced to Drizzt's sinister family. In the books that follow, Salvatore seemingly puts the characters through every close call and near defeat he can, finally wrapping up the books in a touching rescue/showdown where Drizzt is forced to face defeat, only to see victory ripped from it's jaws at the last moment. The author pulls off the necessary dramatic tension and pacing to keep the reader hanging on his every word and glued to the book through the whole wild ride. "Legacy of the Drow" is far darker than the merry romp of "Icewind Dale", and the reintroduction of the Drow was every bit as scary as the foreshadowing in "The Dark Elf Trilogy" promised. Of course, the books have some weaknesses. Drizzt's family members are under-used and quickly disposed of, much like the villains in Salvatore's plodding, overly-derivative "Cleric Quintet". Characters from the Quintet were introduced to the series in a relatively heavy-handed fashion, and some characters felt under-utilized (Gromph Baenre, Gandalug Battlehammer, and Berkthgar the Bold, especially). Salvatore's writing, while better than his previous works, still lacks the detail that characterizes the works of the best fantasy authors. All in all, however, if you liked the first six books in Drizzt's saga, you'll love these four. Throw on a nice dark soundtrack, grab a drink, and enjoy the ride.
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Summary: Oh come off it.
Review: C'mon, kids; these aren't good novels by any stretch of the imagination. I'm all for enjoying some good, escapist nerdy fantasy fiction, but this simply does not do the trick. The characters range from straight-up cliches to by-the-numbers anti-cliches. Bruenor and Regis are the ultimate cliches of dwarf and hobbit, respectively, Cattie Brie is a charmless nag, Drizzt is a poorly-developed anti-drow and Wulfgar is... a fantasy barbarian! Salvatore does a good job manipulating the reader's emotions, given his self-limited material, but it's not enough to make you actually retain interest in any of the protagonists. The villains are better, which bodes well if Salvatore decides to get off his tedious and infantile morality kick and concentate on story-telling. The plot is bizzarely rehashed from novel to novel, making at least a couple of the collected books redundant. And most irritatingly, Salvatore insults his readers' intelligence over and over again; he's not content with aiming his books squarely at junior high students, and so he assumes that he's going to be read by junior high students of sub-normal intelligence. The conflict between Drizzt and Artemis Entreri (complete with barely veiled, tingling, homo-erotic subtext) starts out with blatant and obvious mirror-image metaphors, and since Salvatore doesn't trust his readers to "get it" he repeats the theme over and over again, taking it to naked analogy and then spelling it out for anyone who didn't get it the first, second, third or fourth time. This is bad writing, and only one example thereof. Adults, approach with caution.
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Summary: BRAVO R.A. SALVATORE!!!
Review: Definitely a great fantasy epic and one of my personal favorites, The Dark Elf Trilogy-Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn, brings to life the story of a good hearted dark elf ranger named Drizzt Do'Urden and his adventures in the Underdark Drow city of Menzoberranzan in the World of Faerun. The books are 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. A great trilogy indeed and a "must read" along with RA Salvatore's The Icewind Dale Trilogy!
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