Passage to Dawn: Legend of Drizzt: Legacy of the Drow, Book 4 (urspr publ 1994; utgåvan 2013)

The perfect ending to a great series. The characters continue to endear themselves to me. I love them even more than I did when I first read The Crystal Shard.

This is a wonderfully satisfying book. ( )

Not my favorite Drizzt novel. I still enjoy the writing, I still enjoy the characters, I just thought that here, the author was forced to go in a direction he didn't want to go and it showed. Being a shared world novel, Salvatore does not control the overall direction of the world, in this case it didn't work out as well. ( )

The last Drizz't book I'll be reading.

While Salvatore can write a good battle scene, it seems that he writes like a crap author in every other situation. Which is odd, as I've read his Star Wars books, and while not terribly impressed, I didn't feel like a 10year old was writing the dialogue.

So farewell Mr Drizz't. May you find a luscious dark elf who also likes goodness, mainly so that Salvatore can stop yanking your chain with these terribly forced, awkward, cross-species wannabe romances... ( )

"Seis años. No demasiado tiempo en la vida de un Drow y, sin embargo, contando los meses, las semanas, los días, las horas, me parece que hubiera estado lejos de Mithril Hall cien veces ese tiempo... Ahora cabalgo sobre las olas a lo largo de la Costa de la Espada, el viento y la espuma azontándome el rostro. Por techo tengo los bancos de nubes y el dosel de estrellas; por suelo, el crujiente maderamen de un barco veloz y deslucido por los elementos... ¿Es éste mi hogar?"
La nueva vida de libertad de Drizzt y Catti-brie a bordo del "Duende del Mar" se interrumpe cuando el ataque de un doppleganger, el poema enigmático de una vidente y un hechizo mal realizado por un mago provocan que nuestros protagonistas regresen a las tierras donde apareció por primera vez la Piedra de Cristal. Y el cebo para atraerlos es el espíritu de un ser amado, atrapado y torturado en las tinieblas del abismo por el perverso demonio Errtu, el Gran Balor que, para vengarse del Elfo Oscuro que lo desterró al abismo, busca destruir no sólo a Drizzt Do'Urden, sino a todos aquellos a los que ama. ( )

In many ways, this was a much quieter book that the others; despite this, I still found it compulsively readable. I didn't really realize just how quickly I was reading it until I noticed how few pages were left. Very good stuff. Definitely not literature, but a lot of fun nonetheless. ( )