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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
These books are getting terrible as I get further away from the first three.
Very good second installment of the series. I am really liking how the author assumes the reader can follow the plot and the various characters throughout the story. He doesn't (at least not so far) do the space and time wasting 'recaps'that are so common in series these days.
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I saw this book on the new releases shelf at a Wal-Mart when I was in college and thought the foreboding cover looking incredibly cool, but I didn't get to starting the trilogy of which it is the middle volume until the pandemic started. Better late than never, I guess? I liked, but did not love the slightly sloggy first book in this Hunter's Blades trilogy, but...
I really enjoyed this one. It finally moves past the water-treading past-dwelling of the first book in the trilogy, mostly thanks to the catastrophic events at the end of that book. This one essentially has two "A"-stories, the first featuring a rage-filled Drizzt who believes all of his closest friends have been killed, and who is only living to slaughter every single orc he encounters, regardless of the cost to his body or spirit. The book actually does a pretty decent job with his emotional arc, as he is presented with the choice of letting the past go, or fully giving in to his bleak hunter persona.
Meanwhile, in the second A-story, his very alive friends are faced with an impending battle against a massive orc army, led by an incredibly powerful and cunning orc leader. There's some definite Two Towers energy here, as the book climaxes with an incredible battle that goes blessedly on and on in page after awe-inspiring page, as the orcs and dwarves stage counter-attack after counter-attack. I didn't want it to end, but it does in spectacular fashion, with a final kill that is a both cathartic and hilarious punctuation to this very fun book. It does take some time to get going, as the filler from the first book threatens its return several times through the opening half, but thankfully, the book leans into to its most promising attributes. With every characters' fate up in the air, I now can't wait to read the closing volume of the Hunter's Blades trilogy.
I really enjoyed this one. It finally moves past the water-treading past-dwelling of the first book in the trilogy, mostly thanks to the catastrophic events at the end of that book. This one essentially has two "A"-stories, the first featuring a rage-filled Drizzt who believes all of his closest friends have been killed, and who is only living to slaughter every single orc he encounters, regardless of the cost to his body or spirit. The book actually does a pretty decent job with his emotional arc, as he is presented with the choice of letting the past go, or fully giving in to his bleak hunter persona.
Meanwhile, in the second A-story, his very alive friends are faced with an impending battle against a massive orc army, led by an incredibly powerful and cunning orc leader. There's some definite Two Towers energy here, as the book climaxes with an incredible battle that goes blessedly on and on in page after awe-inspiring page, as the orcs and dwarves stage counter-attack after counter-attack. I didn't want it to end, but it does in spectacular fashion, with a final kill that is a both cathartic and hilarious punctuation to this very fun book. It does take some time to get going, as the filler from the first book threatens its return several times through the opening half, but thankfully, the book leans into to its most promising attributes. With every characters' fate up in the air, I now can't wait to read the closing volume of the Hunter's Blades trilogy.
Soooo much better than the Thousand Orcs. It was a super fun ride. I loved it.
This book follows the same steps all the books seem to do the further I progress into this series: a very, very long set-up, to have it all come together in the end. Most of the days I couldn't be moved to read this book, only to read the final 80 pages or so in one final sitting because finally, stuff was happening. There is no mystery to the plot because Salvatore (ever so brilliantly) describes both sides to the story. The only surprises he manages is when he withholds information to the reader, but then it's used to facilitate a plot twist you know is coming as soon as the book starts.
I was kind of on the fence about liking or disliking this series (after being so positive when I first started reading), and this book slightly tipped me towards disliking. I hope the final book in this trilogy makes me believe otherwise.
I was kind of on the fence about liking or disliking this series (after being so positive when I first started reading), and this book slightly tipped me towards disliking. I hope the final book in this trilogy makes me believe otherwise.
Very good second installment of the series. I am really liking how the author assumes the reader can follow the plot and the various characters throughout the story. He doesn't (at least not so far) do the space and time wasting 'recaps'that are so common in series these days.
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot