The Pirate King by R.A. Salvatore Review
Author: R.A. Salvatore Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: October 2008 Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Drizzt is one of the most well known characters in fantasy today and it seems most everyone knows what side of the fence they fall on when it comes to the hero and his cast of friends. [...]
Book Review – Sly Mongoose
Author: Tobias Buckell Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: August 2008 Sly Mongoose is the third novel of Tobias Buckell. It is part of the same future history as its predecessors Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin, but it is a self-contained story that can be read on its own. It has been [...]
Book Review – A Magic of Twilight
Author: S. L. Farrell Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: DAW Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: February 2008 Take the political intrigue of various factions of church, state, subjugated peoples of an empire, and religious heretics in a Renaissance setting and combine with magic and a well-realized fantasy setting and the result is A Magic of Twilight [...]
Book Review – Shadowplay
Author: Tad Williams Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: DAW Binding: Paperback Publication Date: March 2008 Tad Williams has a knack for creating an atmosphere. His fantasy worlds are fully populated and full of fanciful imagination and realistic character interactions. When you read one of his fantasies you can imagine a whole wide world full of [...]
Book Review – Ragamuffin
Author: Tobias Buckell Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: June 2007 Ragamuffin is the second work by Carribean-born Tobias Buckell, I reviewed its prequel Crystal Rain last August at my blog and was pleasantly surprised how well the writer blended different styles and genres together in an exciting novel. In many [...]
Book Review – The Orc King
Author: R.A. Salvatore Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: September 2007 As many fanboi will complain, Salvatore’s last few Drizzt books lost a step here or there. The story needed to move on though and sometimes that takes a few books. Here we have the culmination of those [...]
Book Review – The Two Swords
Author: R.A. Salvatore Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2004 The conclusion of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy picks up where The Lone Drow (the second installment) left off: the dwarves are attempting to thwart an orc advance and Drizzt is out in the wilderness causing havoc amongst the [...]
Book Review – The Thousand Orcs
Author: R.A. Salvatore Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: October 2002 The story starts off by accompanying a small group of dwarves, led by Tred McKnuckles, who are attempting to beat another group of dwarves to a city where they are planning on selling their wares. Unfortunately for [...]
Book Review – The Crystal Shard
Author: R.A. Salvatore Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2005 This is the book that started it all. ‘The Crystal Shard’ was what pushed me from being a mere book reader to a book fanatic. Some would say a book addict. It may or may not be known [...]
Book Review – Sojourn
Author: R.A. Salvatore Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2004 Drizzt completes his journey to the surface and discovers the hardships and the friendships that will follow him through the rest of his life. Sometimes even the right decision means somebody gets hurt. After arriving on the surface, [...]
Book Review – The Highwayman
Author: R.A. Salvatore Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: CDS Books Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2004 The Highwayman, the first Solo book written by R.A. Salvatore. Though certainly one the best of what he has written. We are back into the world of Corona, although the book does take place Pre-Demon War. It’s a very dramatic [...]
Book Review – The Lone Drow
Author: R.A. Salvatore Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: October 2003 I want to start out this review with a little bit of respect to the man R.A. Salvatore. The first Drizzt series (Icewind Dale Trilogy) was great, I read it with fervor. The second Drizzt trilogy, The [...]
