Maybe I was a little hasty before...
Feb. 9th, 2006 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_grovePromise of the Witch King R.A. Salvatore.
It took me a while, about a third of the way into the book to warm to it. I wondered at first if it was because it's hard to care about the main characters, being of ill intent as at least one of them is, and roguish the other. In the end I think it was just that it took that long for Salvatore to get to the point of the whole book, which aside from an action role play novel (and it really does come across more as that and less literary than say, the many Do'Urden tales or the Cleric Quintet), seems to be an examination of the character and heart of the assassin-arch nemesis from the dark elf stories.
Artemis Entreri is getting old - and it shows. Granted, some of the emotional soul searching he goes through are catalysed by a magical item given to him by Jarlaxle, who describes himself as Entreri's 'muse,' but it was interesting to see his thought processes on some matters, magically induced or otherwise. I wonder maybe if what Salvatore is trying to hint at is an alignment change for his chaotic evil anti-hero? Anyway, in the end I enjoyed the book, but wish there had been a little /less/ of the action and more of a balance from the kind of things that made the Do'Urden books stand out so much in the genre.
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well
Date: 2006-02-09 11:09 pm (UTC)luv ya.
Re: well
Date: 2006-02-19 02:52 pm (UTC)Re: well
Date: 2006-02-19 05:14 pm (UTC)