Review: Sea of Swords, By: R. A. Salvatore
Posted: 11 May 2014, 02:07
The main character, Drizzt Do'Urden, is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. R. A. Salvatore's "Sea of Swords" is one of 22 books Drizzt Do'Urden is in and within each book has its own wide range of action, adventure, and evolving story lines. Salvatore's earlier novels compared to his most recent ones show how far he has come as an author. It's literally like night and day if you compare the pros and cons of all his work in chronological order. The Sea of Swords alone provides admirable narration, impressive plot progression, and descriptions are amazing. The way Salvatore describes surroundings and objects, none the less the characters them selves, give you a clear image you can almost literally see, touch, feel, or smell. Furthermore, the fight scenes are just as vivid and astonishing. They have such detailed information within each fight scene of which gives the reader a front row seat to the show. Can't wait to read more from R. A. Salvatore!!
I do have some minor discrepancies, despite my opinionated 5 star rating on the author and the book it self. One minor issue is the drama between some of the characters are a tad bit drawn out. It doesn't exactly take away from the progression of the plot, but it can be slightly distracting at times; although, I can see how it can be necessary for the dramatic moments to be apparent as to help define the characters and their relations to each other. Still, I think those relations are pretty well defined throughout the trilogies prior to the Sea of Swords and could of used less dramatic situations. Another minor issue was the character Wulfgar and his inner conflict over himself and who he really is, the pseudo-climax is not what I expected when taking in the consideration of the last two books. That could definitely of been written much better, and more detail to that character in this book would of made it so much more of a greater book than it already is.
Over all I would have to say, weighing out the pros and cons shows that this book is worth reading. I did not notice many grammatical errors, any misspelled words, and the attention to detail is phenomenal. Truly I hope anyone who reads this book enjoys it as much as I have. If you haven't read the previous books before this one, I would advise doing so, as to get the full understanding and appreciation of the trilogy as a whole.
I do have some minor discrepancies, despite my opinionated 5 star rating on the author and the book it self. One minor issue is the drama between some of the characters are a tad bit drawn out. It doesn't exactly take away from the progression of the plot, but it can be slightly distracting at times; although, I can see how it can be necessary for the dramatic moments to be apparent as to help define the characters and their relations to each other. Still, I think those relations are pretty well defined throughout the trilogies prior to the Sea of Swords and could of used less dramatic situations. Another minor issue was the character Wulfgar and his inner conflict over himself and who he really is, the pseudo-climax is not what I expected when taking in the consideration of the last two books. That could definitely of been written much better, and more detail to that character in this book would of made it so much more of a greater book than it already is.
Over all I would have to say, weighing out the pros and cons shows that this book is worth reading. I did not notice many grammatical errors, any misspelled words, and the attention to detail is phenomenal. Truly I hope anyone who reads this book enjoys it as much as I have. If you haven't read the previous books before this one, I would advise doing so, as to get the full understanding and appreciation of the trilogy as a whole.
