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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darth Shoju" data-source="post: 1130539" data-attributes="member: 11397">The Crystal Shard was the first D&D novel that I ever read. Salvatore is responsible for getting me not only into D&D novels but into the game itself. I had read The Hobbit at that point, but being young and for some reason not realizing the connection to LOTR, I didn't really branch out into fantasy after reading it. But I picked up Salvatore's works every chance I could get, and through him I started other D&D books and because of his Woods Out Back series I got into non-D&D fantasy (which I pretty much stick to nowadays). [EDIT: I forgot this post was started by a guy who hasn't read these books yet, so I thought I'd toss in a SPOILER ALERT tag here.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ]I bought and read every Salvatore book that came out, but to be honest I started losing my interest after The Legacy. I read Starless Night, Siege of Darkness, Passage To Dawn and The Silent Blade and to be honest I thought they were all fairly lackluster. Passage to Dawn in particular was not his best effort IMO. I didn't like how Errtu was taken down rather easily, how Bruenor's eye grew back and how Cadderly was no longer dying after giving his life energy to raise that cathedral of Deneir. The Silent Blade was better, although I'm also not a fan of how Entreri seems to be becoming more "mainstream". The man's a cold-blooded killer and should stay as such. I didn't really get that feeling from that book. I read the first book of the Demon Wars saga, and while I admint Salvatore seems to be making an effort at more developed characters (and succeeding too), I still didn't like them as much as I did his FR characters (I suppose they were a bit shallow, but I still liked them). Not only that, but the whole Demon Wars setting seemed just a little too stale and not terribly fleshed out to me. Now, he could have turned all of this around with his more recent works, but for now I think I'm just burned out on him. He's just getting too prolific. I'm thinking he should just chill for a bit, re-examine his writing style (not that it's bad, but he could use some reflection time I think) and come back fresh. I'm sure I'll pick up another Salvatore book someday, but it won't be soon. I gave him a 4.</blockquote>

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