Homeland (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, Book 1)

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Summary: Thoughts on Salvatore's 'HOMELAND'
Review: HOMELAND is probably the best book produced by TSR, out of all the other AD&D novels. It has high intensity scenes of emotion, dealing with many dramatic events of a young man (elf). It caught my eye with it's use of self relation to the reader. This book is excellent as a piece of art, as well as a fantasy work.

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Summary: This is the best book I've read in a long time.
Review: R.A Salvatore has some of the best books I've read, e.g., Homeland, Exile, Sojourn, and The Crystal Shard. I love the way he can describe the things going on and the characters' personality in the books. He is almost always rejected but still keeps going. I get lost inside the book and ignore everyone around me. I think everyone who likes fantasy should read books by R.A. Salvatore. I guarantee that you'll love them and want to read them again and again. But if you can't understand words like Ye or other words that aren't proper grammar or hate people like that then you're weird and will not enjoy the book like you should. Thank you for taking the time to read my review and I hope you can get your hands on books like these and enjoy it and put your review in and back me up.

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Summary: An experience I won't soon forget!
Review: Wow! Putting the book down, I was trembling. Unbelievable! The best story I have read in a long time. So clear and descriptive, It was as though I was there for the ride, experiencing everything Drizz't did. I have a greater understanding for the Drow and thier political outlook on the rest of the races.

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Summary: This book and the entire Dark Elf series is stunning!
Review: Homeland is the first introduction into the realm of the Dark Elves, and RA Salvatore does an exemplory job in convincing the reader that Dark Elves are not a very friendly bunch. Drizzt is an amazing character, and throughout the entire Dark Elf series, the character developes in a way that ultimately brings out the hero that was struggling through. Through the minds of the different characters, the author drags you through the dark elf world and the start of Drizzt Do'Urden.

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Summary: Dark Despair, Lost Souls, and Tragity
Review: When I first read this book, I wa already well introduced to fantasy, however, this book was unlike any other. It was the overriding sense of hopelessness that gripped me, the eternal despair that intigrated itself into every aspect of the story. The characters were suffused with such overpowering emotion, that you were spept up allong with them, and nearly drown in their personal plight. The thing that, for me, showed the true genuise of this book, was one of the main characters, the Weapons Master of House Do'Urde, Zaknafein. Truly, he embodied the essence of the story. The true sense of lost hope, rage, hate, and despair was the essense of his very nature. A soul lost beyond all hope, struggling to stay a float in the sea of intrigue and evil of the race that he hates, his own race. You feel the gradual progress of his despair and growing darkness down the years, as he tries to stay apart from it all, desending into a deeper and deeper depression all the while. I enjoyed this book truly, and recommend it for this character, if nothing more, thought the book itself was interesting. It seems to me, a book of lost souls. Selinthia

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Summary: Great fantasy novel, but.........
Review: I read this book a while ago. Since then I've read many other fantasy novels, there is no compare. You purists may not like to hear this, but this book is better than even J.R.R. Tolkien! Yes, you heard me right. The character of Drizzt Do' Urden is unlike any other character in any fantasy novel. The novel shows us how one individual in a race consumed by evil is able to be different and resist the darkside. I can draw comparisons to Star Wars in that they both show the overcoming of an invincible evil. Unlike most fantasy novels, there are many real life themes in Salvatore's Dark Elf trilogy. Besides the usual good vs evil, you have the question of racism discussed and how you are stereotyped because of the actions of others. All of these themes that you would expect in a real-life novel, you see them in an entertaining fantasy setting. The great writing was continued in Salvatore's subsequent Drizzt novels (though he does kind of descend into the usual swords and sorcery that all of us have seen before). Now you may be wondering why I included the but.... in my summary, well I will tell you. R.A. SALVATORE IS NO LONGER WRITING DRIZZT NOVELS! I don't know what the problem was? Maybe TSR was giving him grief, I don't know, but Drizzt by any other man just isn't Drizzt. PLEASE SALVATORE, WRITE MORE DRIZZT NOVELS!

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Summary: Fantasy and Salvatore at their best
Review: R.A. Salvatore has hit his peak with this-the first and very possibly the best- novel of the drow ranger known as Drizzt. Drizzt is beginning to grow up. He and his father know the beauty and the splendors of Menzoberanzzan, the towering structures lined in faerie fire and much more. Along with this splendor and beauty, though, there comes an evil and terror that Drizzt cannot withstand. Learn in this exciting novel of how Drizzt and his father bond and the many ways that they were alike, different from so many drow.

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Summary: Grand Slam!
Review: Once again, R.A. Salvatorer draws us into a world where our hero, Drizzt, is faced with his own morality. A virtual mirror image of Moorcock's Elric, Drizzt has a mirroring dilema as well. Where the eternal champion is on a journey of self discovery, the drow warrior knows himself all too well and must live the reality of others perceptions of him. Salvatore's legendary swordplay choreography is expertly matched with the social/political intrigue of Menzoberanzan.

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Summary: You will be assimilated, resistance is futile
Review: Like the literature produced by Tolkien, it is almost impossible to do this book enough justice. Sedition, matriarchal violence, blood sacrifice, demonic worship, fratricide, avarice...this is only a fraction of what the book entails. It is so deliciously malicious, that it is worth chewing every mouthful an infinite number of times before letting it lodge in the stomach. The overpowering sense of desperation experienced by the book's main character, Drizzt, is in perfect equilibrium with the contrasting desperation of his fanatical mother, Malice. The character descriptions are near perfect.....feed on their hatred! The one-line summary at the top applies to both the drow race, and to you. FARAZ KERMANI

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Summary: R. A. Salvatores First of a fantastic trilogy.
Review: Deep in the Dark Underdark of the Forgotten Realms, a hero emerges from a society of darkness. In Mezzoberanzan city of the Dark Elf, otherwise known (and feared) as Drow, A young male named Drizzt Do'Urden is born. Most Drow are at peace with killing others including thier own kindred, but Drizzt sees the wrong in this doing. He rebels after years of training in the Dark Elf ways, which included being first of his class as a fighter. Drizzt is an ideal hero in that he left his home, the only security that he had, for a world of unknown, The Underdark... Kyle Arrington ([e-mail]) Jacksonville, Texa