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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
 Posted - 02 Mar 2013 : 04:43:55
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I just finished this...I found it quite different from Salvatore's usual offerings. I liked the focus more on plots than action, for one thing. I think this could've been two books, easily: the fallout in the Bloodstone Lands and Entreri's return to Calimport.
With that said, I loved the story. The priest of Selune was a great villain. Despicable, utterly pathetic, yet all powerful in the eyes of the lower class people of Calimport.
I hope Salvatore revists Bregan Daerthe's connections in the Bloodstone Lands. I would like to see more of this region its characters.
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"...the will is everything. The will to act."--Ra's Al Ghul
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Yoss
Learned Scribe
USA
259 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2013 : 05:24:49
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I still hate the ending. The trip to...Calimport? I thought he went back to Memnon....anyway...still feels tacked on at the end (maybe like you said, as two books this would have worked better. But I think the end part would have had to be more fleshed out somehow to really pull it off and stand up to the first half, never mind other books) to me.
Otherwise, I loved the entire trilogy. And there was more angsty story stuff than combat, which I had no problem with. I had no issue with brooding and angsty Entreri. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2013 : 13:18:38
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| This was a fun trilogy that really fleshed out Entreri and Jarlaxle as important characters in their own right though as Yoss mentioned the ending was less than stellar and kind of went in the face of the story so far. |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
1714 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2013 : 19:40:17
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Originally posted by Yoss
I still hate the ending. The trip to...Calimport?
Yes, what about it? That was his plan and intention, to start a new life, hopefully with Dwahvel.
And to get away from Jarlaxle and his machinations.
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I thought he went back to Memnon....
He did, with Jarlaxle's and the flute's prodding, to confront his demons.
But after having done that, being made to feel lousy because of the realization of all the crap from his past that he had repressed, Artemis then wanted to get the hell out of there.
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anyway...still feels tacked on at the end (maybe like you said, as two books this would have worked better. But I think the end part would have had to be more fleshed out somehow to really pull it off and stand up to the first half, never mind other books) to me.
Bob has a tendency to like ending his books in a lurch, whether in the form of a cliffhanger to leave you wanting more for the next book, or just in an odd way that makes you go, "WTF?" He seems to like placing his story climax right at the end, with little or no denouement. Climax=conclusion, a lot of the time. |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
--Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
<"Comprehensive Chronology of R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Works"> |
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