Monday, 22 November 2021

28. 1989 (Jan.) - Forgotten Realms (D&D) - R. A. Salvatore - Streams of Silver (Forgotten Realms #7)

 



Series: Icewind Dale Trilogy 2


The second by order of publication of both the Icewind Dale trilogy and the Drizzt series of novels (there would eventually be prequels and that's why you might find this as volume 5, when it was really the second one published), this picks up shortly after the end of the first volume. 


Drizzt, Bruenor, Wulfgar and Regis go off in search of Bruenor's ancestral home of Mithral Hall, all the way being chased by a party of villains interested in stopping their progress and if needed kill them. 

The general and fun idea is of having an adventuring party in classic D&D style, but with a counterparty chasing them, as if they were parallel D&D games. The writing is fun and the book is fluid, the story works well enough on its own but gains from the previous volume and sets things up nicely for the next one. Fun, nostalgic read.

TL;DR: 7/10