Sojourn

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Summary: A great way to get introduced to R A Salvatore!
Review: Unfortunatly, in terms of the trilogy, this was the first book I have read from Salvatore. Now, I am a true believer. I finished this book in the course of one night, I couldn't put it down. I found myself drawn to read more and more. The way he writes in "racial" tension, prejudice, and overcoming these obsticals is just brilliant, and could give a lesson to people today. I hope that he writes at least one more Dark-Elf novel, after "Passage To Dawn".

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Summary: A fitting end to the dark elf trilogy
Review: The dark elf trilogy was definintely the best trilogy that I have ever read. As is the dark elf series itself. In Sojourn Drizzt is beginning to learn of Toril's harsh surface, so very different from the world from which he has come. There are many obstacles that Drizzt must overcome in this book, one of them including the sun itself. Although this book may seem to lack a plot and excitement, it was the best way that a book in this position could be written. I would reccomend this book to any Drizzt fan.

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Summary: One of Salvatore's Greatest works
Review: There could not be a better way to end the Dark Elf Trilogy than with this book. After I read it, I HAD to read the entire series (10+ books) and since have read every book he has written. My only regret is that I don't own this one and can't find it anywhere.
If anyone wants to sell...

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Summary: WARNING AFTER READING THIS BOOK YOU WILL BE HOOKED!
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. And I have read hundreds and hundreds. Salvatore writes incredible battle scenes, and creates characters you love and characters you thoroughly hate. This was the first of his books I read and afterwards I had to read the entire series(10 books so far with another by different author soon). Must read for fantasy or AD&D fan

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Summary: THE BEST I'm hooked
Review: Salvatore takes us on a wonderful journey of Faeruns Surface. As we follow Drizzt on a timeless trip, we see the racism and hatred against the evil drow race. I found this book in small book table at my church I was just getting into playing AD&D, and the book looked interesting enough, so I bought it. Now, I've read all of Salvatore's books about Drizzt! Like I said, I'm hooked

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Summary: Singly one of the best books I have read!
Review: R.A. Salvatore weaves one of the most fantastic stories I have ever read! He takes us into a dark elf's world and shows us the trials the dark elf goes through, just to be accepted by the world. The dark elf, Drizzt, is noble and but, grossly misunderstood by the surface world. The friends Drizzt makes are for a life-time. With the heart of a ranger and the strength of a lion, Drizzt leaves his past behind and lives for the future. I'd recommend this book to anyone who loves to read a well-written book.

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Summary: Salvatore is a God among authors
Review: I came across my first "Salvatore" novel, actually, by mistake when I was sixteen years old. It was Streams of Silver. I didn't know that it was the 2nd book in a trilogy until half-way through the book. I decided I wouldn't read it until I had read the first of the trilogy, which was The Crystal Shard. After that, I discovered there were 3 books that preceeded the IceWind Dale Trilogy. Reading those I became familiar with the character Drizzt Do'Urden, who quickly became my hero! His style of writing pulls you into the book as if you have become a part of the story, while looking on and observing. Salvatore gave me words that became mental images and played like a movie in my mind. His words scroll by and allow you to be in-sync with the characters. I wrote Mr. Salvatore to thank him for sharing his imagination with his readers, and was amazed to receive a letter from him telling me about his next book, which was Starless Night. I think he is a genius and as long as he keeps writing, no matter what subject, I'll keep reading them!

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Summary: AN AMAZING CONCLUSION TO AN AMAZING TRILOGY!!!
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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Summary: Suffers from poor writing and dull characters
Review: Sojourn is the conclusion of the Dark Elf Trilogy which began with Homeland, continued in Exile and ends here. If you've not read the first two books then I suggest you do so now because the third book is a direct continuation of the other books and you'll be missing out quite a lot by starting here.

Exile was a notch below Homeland. It suffered from poor characters and a very predictable storyline and Sojourn isn't much different. None of the characters from the first two books remain(besides Drizzt of course) so the reader has to deal with a whole new cast. For the most part, these new characters are very one dimensional and similar to the characters in Exile in that there's no attachment to the characters. They're just stage props that Drizzt interacts with before moving on to yet another part of his journey. Characters leave or die out of the blue and they're not very fleshed out. The only decent character Montolio receives almost no development besides a page or two about his past. The author could have spent more time on the characters instead of writing overly long, 10 page battles that go nowhere.

The action returns here in quantity as in the books before. Again, it feels that more of the book is spent in fights than anything else and the battles themselves are completely too long and are littered with many unnecessary descriptions.

The writing too is the worst yet. There are many sentences that just don't read well at all and show a very amateur style. The book itself is very simplisticly written so it will appeal to the younger crowd but if you're looking for some deep, well written fantasy then look elsewhere.

The poor writing, weak and boring characters, and overly long battles are the main downfalls of the book. The world still remains rather interesting with interesting creatures and a lush, although not fully developed world. The story is rather weak too as it just continues on the course exile took. The story is uninspired and nothing much really happens throughout; Drizzt just moves from one place to another with a few small stops and adventures. It's probably the worst part of the Dark Elf Trilogy although the ending does introduce some new characters that may bode well for the Icewind Dale trilogy.

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Summary: Fun, but shallow.
Review: As a trilogy, it was fun, light and fast reading. Salvatore's best side, perhaps because of his expirience in script writing, are the battle descriptions. They are indeed very much alive and very detailed. However, this series is nothing more than a nice action film. The characters are shallow, the plot is naive and unoriginal, the attempts to give some meaning or philosophical thought, or to make the reader somehow identify with the characters are weak and get lost because of the shallowness of the plot and characters. The literary tricks and metaphors are odd and clear. Overall, Salvatore cannot make his book be more than a DnD based book. His writing is not good enough to make the books have a literary value of their own.

However, Salvatore did create one of the coolest characters in Fantasy history, one that will be written in the annales of Fantasy next to Gandalf, Bilbo and Frodo and Raistlin Majere. Even though Drizzt is not the deepest character around, it doesn't matter. Like any good action hero, his life are merely a background, just because you can't have a character that comes out of nowhere. What's important about him is what he can do with his hands. For that, and only for that, Drizzt is worth your money and time.