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Originally posted by CTrunks

The thing I find most interesting about Archmage is the way that the Companions have split up. On one side, you've got Bruenor and Catti-Brie; they've both come back and lived a second life, but are quick to slip back into their familiar roles and continue where they left off before they died. On the other side, you've got Regis and Wulfgar, who have changed significantly over the course of their second lives, and aren't willing to go back to who they were before.

Unfortunately, the latter group, which seems much more interesting (seriously, I liked the chapters involving Spider the most in The Companions), isn't the group we're following. Bruenor's alright, but it feels like there's a ton of repetition in what he does (I think he draws upon the sudden surge of power from the Dwarf Gods at least once a fight), and Catti-Brie has been... well, she's been bland and borderline broken since Night of the Hunter, and they keep piling more stuff on top of it.

With that said, it is not the greatest sign that we have Bruenor rescuing a forgotten dwarven kingdom from the forces of darkness for a second time. It's probably a good thing that the Duergar got wiped out, or else they'd be the ones who held it. And Gromph... I think it's the way that Bob writes him, but he feels very similar to Kimmurel; incredibly smart, incredibly powerful, not very emotional, and dry as a fart. At least when he was being written during WotSQ, he was... entertaining.

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Originally posted by Shadowsoul

Hello everyone.

I must say I'm really struggling to get through this book. To me it seems like Salvatore has run out of ideas so he's decided to bring the old gang back and basically do a rewrite of his earlier books. We also have Bruenor taking back yet another dwarven kingdom and don't get me started on Gromph. I don't know, maybe the older I get the more I notice bad writing.

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