Book Review: The Silent Blade by R.A. Salvatore

The Silent Blade by R.A. Salvatore
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book took me a while to read, but I enjoyed myself. Even though it flipped between three POVs, which I liked, I liked how we got into the heads of the characters and saw how they feel as they go through their journey. From going to destroy Crenshinibon to fighting demons that cannot be seen, to overcoming Pashas and kinda going into a war with them, reading this book was actually pretty fun. My favorite POV was Drizzt, as usual. But oddly, I liked Artemis Entereri's more.

Artemis came back to Calimport and all of a sudden, all of the thieves' in the thieves' guild were on alert and wonder why Artemis Entereri has suddenly come back--it is because he wants to become the next Pasha? Does he want his title back, the King of Assassins? No one knows why the famous assassin came back home, but they know that whatever he wants, they aren't going to give it to him. So they devise a plan to try and kill him, even kelp-wall him. But Artemis went along with it, even getting some surprising help from the drow and leader of the Bregan D'arethe, Jarlaxle, who helps him take over Calimport and also get rid of the people who didn't do anything or help him. I was also shocked to see that the halflings helped him too (well one halfling-Dwahvel, whom I really liked as Artemis's friend.)

Wulfgar's POV was dark af. After coming back to life and free from Errtu's grasp, Wulfgar still isn't himself, and even when he goes on this journey to give Crenshinibon to Cadderly, he finds himself not really feeling it. After he accidentally punches Catti-Brie after a night of passion because of what happened to him in Errtu's plane, he leaves and goes to Luksan, where he becomes a bouncer for a tavern and also fall in love with one of the barmaids. He spends his nights being with Delly and then drinks the night away, and honestly, I can't think of a simple way to live your life. Also he went to face the shaman that turned the chieftan's son into a spirit, and he got his revenge, but it felt empty, hollow.

As for Drizzt, Cattie-Brie, Bruenor and Regis, they are trying to get to Cadderly's place so they can give him the evil crystal shard, but it feels like everyone and their mama is drawn to the crystal, and they were trying to get to Cadderly fast, until they came across Jarlaxle in the Crystal Tower. Trapping Drizzt in the Tower, Jarlaxle comes up with a plan to get Artemis back to the way he was: a simple fight, just the two of them, to see who won.

Before I went 'R.A. when I see you R.A." for what he did to Drizzt (I was so angry when I read that), I was glad at the end, when he was brought back to life. That honestly scared me, and now that Drizzt is back to life, I am wondering what happened to the Crystal Shard/Crenshinibon, the four friends are wondering if they should go and find Wulfgar, who's living his best life where he is right now.

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Book Review: The Legacy (Legend of Drizzt #7) by R.A. Salvatore

The Legacy by R.A. Salvatore
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Hello, and welcome to This book broke me in a million ways, lemme tell you how because OH MY GOOD LORD THIS BOOK. This book right here broke me in a million ways. Well for one, the whole entire thing happened in Mithral Hall/near the Underdark. Secondly, I didn’t like the way Wulfgar went out the way he did, thirdly, I would like to throw Artemis Entreri, along with Dio Brando, STRAIGHT TO FLORIDA WHERE THEY BELONG. Because honestly, WHAT THE HELL MAN.

So first off, let’s start off in the beginning. Vierna, Drizzt’s sister (yes, the nice, kind sister) had came to Jarlaxle (that, turns out, I really like) and told him and her other brother, Dinin (yeah, him. He’s still alive. Shocking) that she’s going to bring House Do’Urden back to power, back in the Lloth’s good graces. How, you might ask? BY GETTING MY BABY BOY, MY HUSBAND, DRIZZT DO’URDEN, AND SACRIFICING HIM. So Vierna comes up with a plan, somehow roping Entreri into this so he can get into a fight with Drizzt, and also turn Dinin into a drider. THAT’S RIGHT, SHE TURNED HER OWN BROTHER INTO A GODDAMNED DRIDER.

On the other side of the world, Wulfgar and Cattie-Brie are about to get married (hooray!) and Brueor couldn’t be happier. All except...Artemis, using the mask Drizzt used to get into Calimport, pretended to be Regis and planted some not-true memories thanks to the ruby pendant that Regis always had. He planted in Wulfgar’s head that yes, Drizzt and Cattie-Brie did meet, but...they also kissed?! The eff? And that made Drizzt and Wulfgar get into a fight for NO DAMN REASON, but at least they laughed about it. So everything was going well until they went to the Underdark and fell into a trap set up by Vierna and Artemis, and Drizzt got caught. I mean, it was one painful reunion because of Vierna slapping Drizzt and bringing up Zaknafein to hurt him (and it did).

Then Drizzt and Enteri got into a fight but they didn’t get to a conclusion, and the last fight of theirs happen on the edge of the mountain thing I believe, and Artemis fell to his “death” like I wanted, but the fool is alive, and Wulfgar didn’t make it. Thanks to a yochol eating him after he stepped in and tried to save Cattie-Brie, who nearly got eaten.

I hated the way Wulfgar had to go. I really didn’t want him to go out the way he did, and I feel like we won’t see him again in the books, though I feel like we will. But the way he went-inside the yochol’s mouth-I hated it. And Drizzt making a vow to only raise his swords in defense and had to kill if he had to, all because he broke a vow to himself that he will never kill his kind ever again. That little passage made me pause a bit and I’m kinda glad he made that vow to himself, because that shocked the hell out of me, like I was stunned about it, so very stunned.

But Vierna dying the way she did because she wanted to sacrifice Drizzt, being a power-hungry bitch, hurts, but sometimes you have to tell the people in your family bye, throw up the deuces and go live your life. I honestly liked Vierna, but then she got her powers back and tried to get Drizzt, but failed in the end.

Speaking of the end...MATRON BAENRE. THAT TWO THOUSAND YEAR OLD DARK ELF THAT SHOULD BE DEAD, BUT OH NO, SHE’S ALIVE. And she has the tooth of one Gandalug Battlehammer, AND HIS SPIRIT. Like...WHAT THE FUCKETY FUCK MY DUDE. I enjoyed all of the action, but the book broke the hell out of me and I’m sad about Wulfgar and want to send Enteri STRAIGHT TO FLORIDA WITH DIO.

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Book Review: The Halfling's Gem (The Legend of Drizzt #6) by R.A. Salvatore

The Halfling's Gem by R.A. Salvatore
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Okay, this book...has nearly torn me apart, made me jump and jerk a bit, and it also made me worry for Regis as HE GOT KIDNAPPED BY ARTEMIS ENTRERI.

But before I start yelling into the void about that, let’s go on with my book review.

So as I said, Regis is kidnapped by Artemis Entreri, and is going through hell. So Drizzt and Wulfgar went after him after leaving the Harpell’s mansion. They follow Entreri’s trail towards Calimport, where Regis is brought to Pasha Pook. But before they can even do that, they have to go visit a banshee named Agatha to get a mask for Drizzt, since people are still kinda bullshittingly scared of drow. They went to visit the village where Agatha is haunting. They ask where the banshee was hiding and they go to her. They had a little fight with her, and then they grabbed her mask and off to Calimport they go.

Though when Drizzt put on the mask, he looks like a surface elf, and I saw the battle waging within him each time he puts on the mask, until he went underground and took it off. I have to say, when the mask slipped off on the boat, I got worried that the captain was going to throw him off because of the color of his skin, but then after the men on the boat came up and said that yeah, the drow scares me, but at the same time he saved our asses, so I’m okay with the drow on the boat (they had to fight pirates thanks to the wizard doing the ‘Now All Of China Knows You’re Here’ meme)

But I’d never thought I’d see the fear in Regis’s eyes when he saw Pasha Pook again. I got worried about him because Pasha is a horrible piece of shit that needs to die, and I really don’t care about Lassiter or Rassiter, and I’m glad Entreri killed him. But then when Pasha sent Drizzt, Wulfgar, Cattie-Brie, and Bruenor to the other plane called Tarterus, where Catti-Brie NEARLY dies, but the good thing is that Drizzt saved her, AND THEY SHARED A TENDER KISS (actually Drizzt tenderly kissed her, though he’s still battling his feelings for Cattie-Brie, even though she’s with Wulfgar, and she was unconscious).

But the one thing I loved throughout the book was Bruenor Battlehammer surviving the fall thanks to Drizzt’s sword, Icingdeath. He fought his way back, but if it wasn’t for the Lady Alustrel’s help, then no more Bruenor.

But I was wondering where Guenhwyvar was, because we see bits and pieces of her in the book. But it turns out Artemis had her, and he gave it to Pasha, but even he couldn’t even control her as she took Regis to the astral plane, and she also helped him with the wererats problem by taking him to some other cats and let them loose at the wererats.

I really did enjoy this book and I am gonna read all of them (i ordered some more for Christmas, so next year is going to be FANTASTIC) and with each book I read, I’m loving each and every bit of it.

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