From what I understand, the goddess Mielikki asks them to accept reincarnation, because "Drizzt needs them," and all but Wulfgar agree.
Wow, that's even dumber than I thought it would be.
From what I understand, the goddess Mielikki asks them to accept reincarnation, because "Drizzt needs them," and all but Wulfgar agree.
Written by R.A. Salvatore, "The Companions" revisits the characters of his original book – “The Crystal Shard” – and of its many sequels: Bruenor, Regis and Catti-Brie.
Readers more up-to-date with Salvatore’s novels than me will realise there is a basic problem with using those characters: they're all dead! However, as comics have taught us, death does not have to be permanent. The book deals with how they come back to life and their adventures before they join up with Drizzt again.
So much for Salvatore's claim that they (he and Ed Greenwood) were going to do this RSE 'right'. That sounds... beyond awful.
The introductory chapters are written surprisingly poorly, with some clumsy exposition and an excess of commas, but the book improves swiftly once the real heart of the story begins. The book alternates between the viewpoints of the three companions as they are reborn as infants and face the challenges of being adults in children's bodies. Yes, that's right, they have to go through childhood again!
I haven't read any of his works (or any D&D literature, for that matter), so I have no horse in this race. However, is it really odd to you that people critique the public work of someone else?Must be hard to drink your your pinky that high in the air.
Dude's written over 50 novels. 5-0. He's made his living in the hardest profession out there. Any chucklehead can go out and get a job in IT and write a novel on their weekends. Doing it day-in, day out for thirty years, and working on videogames, and working on comics? Respect.
Thanks for posting this review. Personally I flipped through the first couple pages on amazon and then pressed my browser's back button in disgust because they were so stupidly written. But if you say it gets a lot better then I might actually give it a shot someday.
So much for Salvatore's claim that they (he and Ed Greenwood) were going to do this RSE 'right'. That sounds... beyond awful.
It really isn't that awful. The way Catti-brie was killed (and where she went in her afterlife) set up the potential of the resurrection.