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Available
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Publication
Wizards of the Coast (1989), 342 pages
Description
Dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden and his companions, Bruenor, Wulfgar, and Regis, dwarven warriors each with their own special tribulation, fight for their ancestral home, Mithral Hall.
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LibraryThing member reading_fox
Continuing along in the saga. This is the 2nd book published but as there is (now) a prequel trilogy, it's the 5th chronologically. It picks up where the last left off Drizzt and co, have finally been persueded to accomany the dwarf to his old ancestral home that they got kicked out of a while (200
As all the characters are complete stereotypes from the ADnD system there's no need to bother with there names, they're simple the elf, the dwarf the halfling, the barbarian and the woman. There's a bit more dialogue than last time out - rather than they met with the wizard who gave them directtions, we do actually get to experience the meeting of the wizard. Maybe the DM's had more time to practise his* NPC lines. However the author has still decided to enliven our token women with a trully horrendous accent. This is even worse for being reproduced as speach rather than just described now and again. Charisma = 6
Again there is little characterisation - but more than the inital book - and lots of action. The heros vastly outpower their enemies in quite ridiculous fashion. Its quite weird because much of it does have a proper paper RPG feel to it - you can imagine the made svaing throw rolls etc - but you know that the battles they were facing would have been impossible for paper RPG characters to win, unles they're quite stupidly high level in which case they wouldn't be on these fairly trivial quests.
Feels like there's a continuity issue with Drizzit's scimitar too. In the first book it was all powerful, here it isn't mentioned until right at the end. Having read on into book3 I know this does get explained, but it did annoy me throughout this book. The ending is particularly annoying too - one of the reasons for carrying straight through to book 3 was to confirm that the author had been as annoying as it seemed. And yes he had. As a duology books 2 and 3 probably work better together. Reading just book 2 on its own would be confusing.
* well it could be a her. But the author is male, and really how many female DMs are there?
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years or so) back. Of course they have to find it first. The halfling wasn't going to come - but he suddenly sees an unwelcome face and changes his mind. Not telling his friends this isn't the wiset idea he's ever had.As all the characters are complete stereotypes from the ADnD system there's no need to bother with there names, they're simple the elf, the dwarf the halfling, the barbarian and the woman. There's a bit more dialogue than last time out - rather than they met with the wizard who gave them directtions, we do actually get to experience the meeting of the wizard. Maybe the DM's had more time to practise his* NPC lines. However the author has still decided to enliven our token women with a trully horrendous accent. This is even worse for being reproduced as speach rather than just described now and again. Charisma = 6
Again there is little characterisation - but more than the inital book - and lots of action. The heros vastly outpower their enemies in quite ridiculous fashion. Its quite weird because much of it does have a proper paper RPG feel to it - you can imagine the made svaing throw rolls etc - but you know that the battles they were facing would have been impossible for paper RPG characters to win, unles they're quite stupidly high level in which case they wouldn't be on these fairly trivial quests.
Feels like there's a continuity issue with Drizzit's scimitar too. In the first book it was all powerful, here it isn't mentioned until right at the end. Having read on into book3 I know this does get explained, but it did annoy me throughout this book. The ending is particularly annoying too - one of the reasons for carrying straight through to book 3 was to confirm that the author had been as annoying as it seemed. And yes he had. As a duology books 2 and 3 probably work better together. Reading just book 2 on its own would be confusing.
* well it could be a her. But the author is male, and really how many female DMs are there?
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LibraryThing member Wiszard
Another excellent book from R. A. Salvatore. A must read for those fans of Dungeons and Dragons. The ability of Wulfgar, Drizzt and Bruenor to survive and recover from all they experience is on the unrealistic side. The other drawback is that I really saw a huge similiarty to the Tolkien scene in
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LOTR:FOTR in the mines of the Dwarves. However, the other adventures portrayed by Salvatore make this book quite enjoyable. Show Less
LibraryThing member rbtwinky
This was my second time reading Streams of Silver. I remember it being much more enjoyable than I found it this time. The path to Mithril Hall was excruciating this time around. Oh no, they’re stuck in the swamp. Gee darn. I knew that they were going to find Mithril Hall. I knew that they were
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(all) going to make it out alive. The suspense just wasn’t there. I think this book lacked the character development that makes a book like this enjoyable when one knows the plot already. It was a great story, but not really a stand-out in the read-again category. Then again, maybe this book was so good that I didn’t forget the plot, reducing it’s reread quality. Show Less
LibraryThing member Karlstar
Follow on to The Crystal Shard, and nearly as good as the first book. The heroes join Bruenor to find the ancient homeland of the Battlehammer clan. This one even features a bit of a cliff-hanger ending. As usual, a great job turning AD&D concepts into a novel, and expanding the worlds of dwarves
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and dark elves. Show Less
LibraryThing member capiam1234
Fast paced & fun likeable characters, what's not to like?
LibraryThing member BooksForDinner
Not the biggest Bruenor fan in the world, but I am reading these books to get to the goods in later books. Standard hack and slash fare.
LibraryThing member revslick
Solid 5 for action and pacing + better character development however -2 for over heroic stamina overcoming way too many insurmountable obstacles.
LibraryThing member jerame2999
It's a good book. I just think I'm done with fantasy novels for now. Good thing I have a lot of them.
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1989
Physical description
342 p.; 4.18 inches
ISBN
088038672X / 9780880386722