Avail Yourself Legacy Of The Drow (Legacy Of The Drow, #1-4; Legend Of Drizzt, #7-10) Written And Illustrated By R.A. Salvatore Distributed In Hardcover

is a great collection ofbooks with everyone's favorite Drow Drizzt Do'Urden! Collecting the booksof the Legend of Drizzt.


BookLegacy: In the first book starts off right where the last book of Icewind Dale Trilogy leaves off.
The Dwarves are busy at work in there reestablish Mithril Hall and Drittz feels as if he finally been accepted and at home.
However, old enemies lurk and threaten the Drittz and his friends, Legacy is full of action and in the end it appears nothing will be the same,

BookStarless Night: While everyone else is in a state of depression, Drittz realize that his past once again has put the people he cares about most in danger and ventures off on his own to learn and stop the Drow's plans.
He runs into old friends and with the help of his friends and unlikely ally does he start to realize that he need stop blaming himself for his heritage and pulls off an exciting escape from his homeland.


BookSiege of Darkness: Perhaps one of the biggest battles and excitement in the Legacy Collection and in the Legend of Drizzt so far.
Mithril Hall is under siege from evil Drow and it becomes a battle of survival,

BookPassage to Dawn: After the battle CattBrie and Drittz decides on exploring the world and learning there place in it.
They happen upon and old ship captain friend and join with him on his pirate hunting missions,

Drittz and CattBrie become closer friends during this time and have come to enjoy the adventure life style, This until a evil from Drittz past once again intervenes with intent on torturing him, It full of twists and in the end Drittz finally realize where his home is truly is,

The Legacy of the Drow continues to build on the characters and throw new obstacles that teaches Drittz who he is and learns many life lessons.
The book is highly recommended to those that enjoyed the other two trilogies Dark Elf and Icewind Dale, Now I will move on to reading other books and return soon to read more adventures of the Legendary Drittz Do'Urden.
It's been close foryears before finally returning to the forgotten realms, Been on such a fantasy kick as of late, Opening this book was like instantly meeting up with old friends and not missing a beat with them, Drizzt, Wulfgar personal favorite, Bruenor, Regis, and Cattiebrie all return much to my delight, The action is fast and furious from the offset, It's Salvatore in his element, Juggling Salvatore, Pratchett, and Jordan at the same time has sent my fantasy heart a flutter,

Legacy of the Drow looks to continue the adventures of everyone's favorite Dark Elf and his fellowship, It's good to be home, Good. As usual, a pleasure to delve further into philosophical Drizzt DoUrden's journey, I remember this book being kind of up and down for me, I liked it as a whole, but there were times I grew frustrated or even bored mostly because of stuff w/ Entreri and Wulfgar.
These books deal with Drizzt's legacy as a Drow, his inability to escape the shackles of his heritage, and how it comes to affect the bonds he's built since he's settled on the surface.
At times it's a bit of a slow burner, but the second two books really pick up, Seige of Darkness is pretty much what it sounds like, and was my favorite of the four books, Passage to Dawn deals more with Errtu and Crenshinibon, but also a very key plot point involves Lolth herself and fallout from some of the early battles.
It's an intereresting part of these tales in its own right, since Crenshinibon plays into later plot points dealing with the Sellswords trilogy, which is best described as the adventures of Jarlaxle and Entreri and was much better than I expected.
I had a hard time with this four book quartet, There were numerous times that I wanted to give up on it but I stuck with it, It got to a point where all the characters were tiresome and predictable, The few times that someone actually gets the better of Drizzt were spoiled by the enemies being dumb or fighting among themselves.
Again, Salvatore is good at writing action scenes but the primary characters are so overpowered with magical loot that there is not much tension and everything feels repetitive.
I think I'm done with Salvatore and don't really want to read any more of his books, My favorite so far! beautiful trilogy
action packed
the descent was the best thing Each page as wonderful as the last.
No real surprises here, just,pages of vengeance plotting, narrow escapes and overly detailed sword fights, but hey, it worked for Robert E.
Howard
Update: Ok the firstbooks still get two, but "Passage to Dawn" gets four, Taking the characters back out into The Realms makes booka lot more interesting, There is a great mix of new characters and some old friends returning, the dwarves and barbarians continue to squabble in ever more complicated ways, and Errtu makes a great badguy, this is Salvatore at his best! After reading the first six Drizzts books and enjoying them immensely I was somewhat disappointed with these next four.
Still, it was nice to journey with old friends and Ill give the next books a chance in hopes they rise to the level of the old.
Okay, so there are four books in this series, but I'm gonna write about them all at once, The book titles are: "Legacy", "Starless Night", "Seige of Darkness", and "Passage to Dawn",
The first book opens with Drizzt coming back to see his friends at Mithril HallI don't remember where he's been.
Cattie Brea and Wulfgar are engaged to be married kinda strange, since they are both the adopted children of Brunor Battlehammer.

Anywho, Regis comes back too, But its not really Regis, but Artimis Enteri magict to look like Regis, He tells Wulfgar that Drizzt wants his lady for his own, This makes the two friends fight,
Then all of the companions delve into a portion of Mithril Hall that has been over run by goblins, There is a cool battle and victory,
Then, Drizzt older sister has decided to bring Drizzt back to Menzoberanzan for punishment and to, once again, apease the evil goddess of the Drow.
I think she turns her brother into a drider half drow, half giant spider to help her find and fight Drizzt.
When the fight finally happens, Drizzt's sister summons a demon called a Yachol which kills Wulfgar and takes Brunor's eye before they destroy it.
Everyone is devastated including the reader, 'cause this is like bookand no one has died yet, but Drizzt blames himself, 'cause its his family that are messing with everybody.

I need to read it again, I don't remember how they kill all the drow and the drider, . . but rest assured that everyone of the bad guys dies,

I just remebered that Enteri is working with the drow the whole time in this book, Fights Drizzt in a cave in the end, and is sent to his doom, crashing down the wall of a clif.
. . but he is saved by his magical cloak that makes him glide, . .

In book two, Drizzt is so ashamed of his past and his evil race that he decides to sneak away from Brunor's Mithril Hall and go back to Menzoberanzzen and face his fate.
Cattie Brea discovers his plan after he leaves and races after him to bring him back, Brunor stays home, wallowing in his grief,
Artimis Enteri has somehow joined up with the drow and is helping the group of drow assasins, Bregen D'Arthre, He is feeding them information I don't remember what it is, thinking that it will help him to defeat his nemisis, Drizzt, but really he finds himself at the utter mercy of the evil drow.

I don't remeber all the details, but eventually Drizzt is captured by the drow and given to the House Banre the most powerful of all the houses in Menzoberanzzan to be tortured for information about the Dwarves in Mithral Hall and then to the dark goddess, Lloth.

Cattie Brea, after a few runins with goblins and displacer beasts, finds her way through the underdark to the city.
She and Enteri make a shaky agreement to work together to rescure Drizzt and escape from the underdark, They fight the house guards of Banre Minitaurs, pretty cool, and save Drizzt from his fate,
There is an epic battle on a brige between two stalagmites, high above the city floor, between Drizzt and the weapons master of house Banre.
Drizzt wins and takes the drow's bracers of speed, Then the three use some kind of explosive to blow up a giant stalagmite, which falls on the ancient Banre temple and destroys it.

They escape to the upper tunnels, dogged all the time by the drow, but they get away and go their seperate ways.


In the third book which is the best one, in my humble opinion, House Banre decides to mobilize and attack the Dwarves of Mithril Hall.
We find out that Maton Banre has the ancient king of Mithril Hall's soul trapped in a jewel, She uses it to force him to tell her the best way to attack the dwarven city,
There are lots of cool things about this book and it's characters, There are new and interesting drow like a giant drow taht has filed his teeth and wears his hair all punkrock spicky, and while Matron Banre is not a new character, she takes a front row seat in this book and really gets into her battle plans.

Sunddenly I remeber that part of this takes place during the Time of Toubles when the gods fell and there was no magic.
There's this whole aside where therd house in Menzoberanzan a house full of psionisis starts to attack thend, and then,thest house.
Here is where Matron Banre really shows her true colors, Apparently the Time of troubles doesn't last all that long, and Banre is able to get her magic back and utterly destroy therd house giant black tenticals reach up from a bottomless cliff and litterally tear therd house from the face of Mensoberanzan and into the rift.
. . pretty cool.
I also remember the Gutbuster Brigade! A group of dwarven soldiers that fight in a very interesting, strange mannor, They don't weild weapons, persae, but wear armor that is covered in spikes the leader, whos name slipps my mind, but is also a character in the first and second book.
. . and in most of the books to come, has afoot spike on his helmet, They whip themselves into a battle frenzy and launch themselves at an enemy, Once they've got one, they hold on and convulse! HA!! Rediculous, but somehow wonderful, . . In the final battle, these dwarves are actually using a special sideways catapult built for combat in caves to launch their companions into battle.

To be honest, I don't really remember what goes on with the major characters Drizzt, Catie Brea, and Brunor are definitly a part of the story, but I don't know what they do in it.
. . I recall that they are still sad about Wulfgar dying and I think that Brunor works a lot with the Battlehammer clan's clerics making bombs or something.
. . but I really don't remember much,
In the final battle, some displaced deep gnomes join the dwarves these are refugees from Blingdenstone, a deep gnome city that has been destroyed by the drow, Alustrel comes to fight with her magic and flaming/flying chariot, and some other men, too I don't remember from where.
The drow are fighting on the surface and in the tunnels, and with Matron Banre's magic and clerical powers, they are winning.
But then . in the very begining of the book, Lloth gives a gift a piece of stone to a demon prince, She tells him that she wants him to give it to one of his underlings, and have the underling give it to Matron Banre at a specific time.
. . that time turns out to be right in the middle of the battle, This piece of stone radiates an antimagic field from the time of troubles, and negates all of Matron Banre's magical defenses and offencse!! This gives Drizzt just enough time to attack her when she is nothing but an ancient weak drow.
And goodness wins the day! Everybody is beat up, but no one died this time, All and all, a good story,

In the last book, the story kinda dwindles for me, Drizzt recieves some kind of message that a spirit that is important to him is being tormented by Erttu remember him The Demon that Drizzt defeated in 'Streams of Silver'.
So, Drizzt beleaves that it's his father, Zak, whos been captured by the vengeful demon, and he is determined to rescue the lost soul.

Catti Brea joins Drizzt on his journy, and the two of them hook up with the captian of the 'Sea Sprite'the ship they took to Calimshan in 'The Halflings Gem'.
They do some pirate fighting and I think Brunor shows up with Alustrel's flaming chariot to save the day in one of the battles.

They have to go on this wild goose chase to get clues that will lead them to Zak and the Demon.
Through all their trials and tribulations, Cattie Brea and Drizzt are hinting at love, but who has time for romance when you're fighting undead pirates and sea trolls I think.
. . , so it remains only a hint, Eventually, they track the demon all the way back to the icerimmed coast of Icewind Dale, Here, there is an epic battle between Drizzt, Cattie Brea, Bruenor, and Errtu in an ice cave, And we find out there might have been clues all along the way that the tormented spirit is not Drizzt's father, Zak but Wulfgar, the trio's long lost companion.
I think he fights along side them, but is weak and stuff from living in the abyss for however many years he was gone.
. . The good guys win, but I can't remember exactly how it happens, I'm sure its fantastic,

SOOO, that's the end, it's become painfully obvious that I need to read these book again if I'm gonna remember what they are really about.
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