I've also still got the Icewind Dale series.

Why? Do the lavender orbs compel me? Is it the double scimitars? The badly named characters (seriously - why have names in a book nobody can pronounces without hurting themselves or making a prono?). I feel like Salvatore wrote combat scenes as described by six-year olds, except six-year olds have more panache.Īnd yet, in 4 days I read two of these things, and I'm 1/3 through the third one now. Or how they can kick one way, and TOTALLY reverse said kick with the other foot in the opposite direction, all without moving position, or anything else. I've kept reading how people can snap a sword one way, only to snap it in the opposite direction with no loss of force. Have I mentioned the combat scenes yet? Should I? Yes! Because, well, our boy Drizzt, and others, regularly defy physics. Shall I talk about the way he writes the thoughts and reactions of the characters? Like, it's all stage acting (with over-playing for audience reaction), except that it's SOOOOO bad? Actually, all the dialogue is atrocious in these three books for some reason. He's just born that way.Īlso, the term 'Lavender eyes' has been burning in my brain for all eternity, much to my shame. How do you have a total evil drow society, brainwashing and all, and yet Drizzt, our boy-wonder, somehow isn't like the others. The characters and situations don't make a lot of damn sense at all. I remember reading the Icewind Dale Trilogy some 25 years ago maybe, and it being okay, so, here I am reading the Dark Elf Trilogy, the prequel to those stories. So, I'm reading these things, having found them again.

The dark elf trilogy