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The Silent Blade: The Legend of Drizzt, Book XI

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The title is fitting. Shows some of the insides of Artemis Entreri, and has Jarlaxle up to his usual business. Its a quality read with less plot and more character development. Some odd things happen in this book between characters. This book gets my recomendation.

Our favorite Dark Elf meets his match! Entreri travels the world to find Drizzt Do'Urden and settle the score, knowing that he had a great chance of beating him. Drizzt and his friends begin to travel the world, trying to find a way to destroy the Crystal Shard that came into their possession. This book stands out most because of its one-on-one fight scenes and quick moving characters.

One of the best things about this book is that we see the inner torments suffered by Wulfgar and Artemis Entreri. We see how entreri copes with life on Calimport's streets and how Wulfgar faces the horrid memories of imprisonment at the hands of Errtu. Without spoiling much, the final battle between Drizzt and Entreri is very intense and somewhat surprising. Bruenor is also great, particularly when he keeps getting his axe stuck in various goblins. mind you though, there are some gorey details so be forwarned.

After reading, "Passage to Dawn," I was a little tried of the Drizzt series and decided to read a different set of books. The different set didn't do it for me, so I went back to Drizzt and I was blown away by the Silent blade. The writing is ten times better then the "Legacy Series," the characters have much more depth and emotional ties (Artemis, Wolfgar), and I could tell (Don't ask me how) Mr. Salvatore was enjoying himself more when he was writing this series rather than the "Legacy series."

If you don't like the legacy series or not find it as enjoyable as the previous books, just read them because the "Paths of Darkness" series will make more sense and the stories will be ten times better.

Coming on the heels of Salvatore's excellent "Legacy of the Drow" Quartet, "The Silent Blade" continues the adventures of Drizzt Do'Urden and company, once again off across the lands of Faerun on a quest to destroy the Crystal Shard, Cranshinibon.

Salvatore's writing continues to improve- The Silent Blade introduces new depth to quite a few of Salvatore's characters, including the disillusioned assassin Artemis Entreri, the enigmatic mercenary Jarlaxle, and, now returned from his captivity in the Abyss, the barbarian warrior Wulfgar. The book also splits it's time evenly between Entreri and Drizz't, and the focus on Entreri's dealings in Calimport put a nice twist on the novel, only surpassed by the showdown at the end of the book.

If you've enjoyed the dark tone of "Legacy of the Drow" and want to continue your adventures with Drizzt, pick this book up.

The Silent Blade is not only the firt book of the series "The Paths of Darkness" by R.A. Salvatore, but it is also the return to a battle that was thought over. The battle of and for the evil Crystal Shard.

In this first novel of the series, we encounter all of our old friends and enemies. This book really is an intro for the rest of the novels in this series which pins 3 characters, drizzt, wulfgar, and Entriri. The book is broken up, watching each character and showing what brings them to soon be their own novel.

Wulfgar is struggling with his sanity after being imprisoned in the abyss for six long years.
Drizzt is on a search to destroy the evil Crystal Shard.
And Atermis Entriri the deadly assassin and Drizzts fighting equel returns to his home city in search of himself and what he wants to do with the rest of his life.

All and all this story makes for another classic tale for Drizzt and his companions. A must read for Drizzt fans.

Worst enemy in a plot for him to take over the streets he once lived in he must agree to once again work with the Dark Elfs who he hates so. Artemis Entreri starts to see that there is more in life than killing innocents and gaining wealth.

I have read all of Salvatore's books about the drow Drizzt Do'urden, and I have loved them all. The Silent Blade is another great book by Salvatore. It has it all, action, intrigue, and of course, lots and lots of fighting.

I really liked this book in the fact that Drizzt is finally realizing that is feelings for Cattie-Brie run deeper than just friendship, and he finally realizes what the word jealousy really means when Wulfgar comes back into everyones life. I don't think the book is terribley good except for the first about 7 chapters or so.

I do love when all the main characters are placed together again.
Drizzt is such a great good guy with Artemis being the perfect bad a**. I was actually starting to really like Wulfgar alot, but then I got really bored with Spine of the World so he fell flat again. Jarlaxle is a pretty interesting character and even though I can't help but giggle at his name, I can't giggle at what character he is.
RAS is totally kicking with this book