This is a tough review to write. I loved these books as a kid. I thought these Drizzt books were full of fun and adventure. As an adult, I see that the writing is average at best and the adventure I remember is not well developed or describe. Adult me thinks that Streams of Silver is a shallow, disjointed, and predictable young adult novel and not the serious fantasy fare I once thought. The series as a whole presents a series of encounters for the book's protagonists as if they were happening r...

I tried. I really did. I read the first book in this series, The Crystal Shard, and my husband promised me that as the series progressed the author's writing got less and less clunky. Well, my husband is a liar. Every single page was full of incredibly annoying cliches from beginning writer's classes. It was awful.

Of the five Drizzt Do'Urden books I have read so far (I am taking them in order of timeline) Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt Book V is by far the worst. Granted, none of them have been any better than questionable brain candy, but Streams of Silver goes beyond them all for sheer crapness. It's not at all difficult to pinpoint Salvatore's biggest problem: his elementary views of good and evil. I have pointed out in previous reviews of his work that the way he structures good and evil is i...

*** 4 ***"...“How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?”..."

This book was a lot of fun. It gave me very nostalgic Hobbit vibes. It was a bit of non stop action but the rise of the friendships and making Cattie more of a main character was great.

"The assassin's strength surprised her as he easily lifted her to a chair. He was a small man, slender as an elf and barely as tall as she, but every muscle on his compact frame was toned to its finest fighting edge. His very presence exuded an aura of strength and an unshakable confidence. This, too, unnerved Cattie-brie, because it wasn't the brash cockiness of an exuberant youngster, but the cool air of superiority of one who has seen a thousand fights and had never been bested" (20). My Ra...

Another great adventure by RA Salvatore.

I have to say the more I read these books the more I find myself cheering for the baddies. Artemis was my main interest in this book. Don't get me wrong I enjoy reading these books but.. they aren't very good books. I also find the reviews quoted on the back about how deep Salvatore's characters are a little laughable. Drizzt wants to prove that he is better than Artemis by chasing him down, battling him, and ultimately murdering him. Murdering a human being. Murder. Something that I'm sure he w...

The Streams of Silver are just one of many treasures to be found in this fantastic adventure!For over a century, Bruenor Battlehammer has been haunted by his past. In his nightmares, he still feels the horrors from the day he and his dwarven clan were chased out of their home at Mithral Hall. But when he and his friends defeated the evil wizard Akar Kessell and saved the people of Icewind Dale, Bruenor realized he now has a fighting unit strong enough to help him reclaim his lost home. Joined by...

Popcorn fantasy is popcorn fantasy. Sometimes it's resoundingly enjoyable, sometimes it's not.In this second book of the Icewind Dale trilogy, Drizzt, Bruenor, Regis and Wulfgar run off on a quest to find Bruenor's ancestral homeland of Mithral Hall. They spend some time doing very little in a city, before spending some time doing very little in a forest. Meanwhile, Catti-Brie is kidnapped by an assassin, and spends some time doing nothing with him.I've taken a liking to R.A. Salvatore, and I ab...

See my review for The Crystal Shard, as I have about the exact same things to say here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...A few differences---Monsters are more detailed this time. I could tell the difference between different types of bad guys. Not the case in The Crystal Shard.-To my point made in my review of The Crystal Shard about women playing a crappy role. Here we see Cat develop some as a character. She gets involved in the adventure as more than just a love interest (although she

R. A. Salvatore. Huge name in the fantasy business of writing, and I think I know why.This book, his second in the Icewind Dale Trilogy, features Drizzt (his most popular character creation I believe), a drow elf. These books are set in the popular "Forgotten Realms" fantasy world.If you are into, or have ever played, Dungeons and Dragons, the backdrop of this novel will be as familiar to you as your own campaign. And even if you make the sign of the devil at anything related to D & D, you can’t...

All of Drizzt books are probably going to be 5 stars, maybe a 4 star. Just sayin' ♥My babies ❤️ "Come on," Regis offered. "Sit with Drizzt and me. No one will bother a tough old dwarf, but a tiny halfling and a skinny elf might look like good sporty the brutes in here. We need your size and strength to deter such unwanted attention."Wulfgar's chin firmed up at the compliment and he strode boldly toward the table. Regis shot Drizzt a knowing wink and turned to follow. "Many lessons you will lea...

RTC maybe.

Bruenor the dwarf and his companions Wulfgar the barbarian, Regis the halfling and Drizzt the renegade dark elf set forth from Icewind Dale on the most ambitious of quests: to rediscover the lost dwarven stronghold of Mithral Hall, birthplace of Bruenor and his clan. The road will be long and full of peril, for the Savage Frontier is a harsh place - and hot on their trail is the assassin Artemis Entreri, one of the most infamous killers in the Realms.The sequel to 1988's The Crystal Shard is a f...

Blatant rip-off of Moria down to a character falling down a crevice to his "death" on the back of a gigantic burning beast. Extremely lame and unoriginal plotline.

I started this series with The Dark Elf Trilogy, which was pretty good, but this book proved to be a difficult read for me. I found it slow moving and frequently uninteresting. I really enjoy the characters, but I really feel like the story just plodded along. Things picked up for an adventurous ending, which has me almost excited about reading the last book in this trilogy. I hope that it is more in line with the kind of adventure I found in the first series I read.

Love the way this one ended. Makes me want to immediately read the 3rd book. While I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first book I am still pretty hype to be revisiting these childhood favorites.

Rating: 2.5 starsReading this series is more fun that doing housework. So that’s what I’ve been doing—reading this book, and not doing housework (which actually needs to be done quite badly at the moment). Now, I never played Dungeons & Dragons, so I don’t really understand how these Forgotten Realms books fit into that whole scene, but I did obsessively read and re-read Tolkien as a teen (and I still re-read him on occasion, when I need comfort). So it’s pretty difficult for me to overlook how

As much as I love THE CRYSTAL SHARD, I think of Streams of Silver as really where the actual story of THE LEGEND OF DRIZZT begins because it's when the author seems to have realized that Drizzt is the actual star. There's plenty of Wulfgar and I like Wulfgar just fine but I have to admit the reason I love this book is the introduction of Drizzt's amazing archenemy: Artemis Entreri. The perfect contrast to Drizzt's idealism and brooding is a lethal pragmatic mercenary who cares nothing but for th...