A review by rhganci
Servant of the Shard by R.A. Salvatore

2.0

Again without Drizzt, again a decent tale. It didn’t have the human-interest aspect like SotW did, but it wasn’t bad. Artemis remains stubbornly unwilling to change his ways, and I came to like Jarlaxle’s observations of Entreri in this novel – perhaps knowing this is what becomes of the two of them will make LotD better the next time I read it. I liked how it wrapped things up with Crenshinibon (again Salvatore revisits a previous location like Haphaestus’ cave without revisiting plot, so the whole story seems unbroken and natural), and how it concludes the whole thing with Entreri and Jarlaxle without a cliffhanger, so that a reader who is interested in Drizzt can continue without feeling like he’s missing something if he doesn’t read The Sellswords, which I have no interest in looking at. It was a good conclusion to this part of the story of Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle, satisfying and complete.