Wednesday 22 April 2009

FANTASY REVIEW: The Ancient - RA Salvatore


BOOK BLURB:

Searching for his long-lost father, Bransen Garibond is tricked into journeying across the Gulf of Corona to the wild lands of Vanguard, where he is pressed into service in a desperate war against the brutal Ancient Badden. On a lake just below Badden's magical ice castle, several disparate societies - dwarves, monks and barbarians - are caught up in the web of their own conflicts, and thus oblivious to his devastating plan to destroy them by releasing a tidal wave to wipe their island clean. Bransen finds himself becoming the link between these turmoils, and if he fails, all who live on the lake will perish - and all of northern Honce willl fall under the shadow of a merciless and vengeful oppressor.


REVIEW:

Famed the world over for his Forgotten Realm Drizzt Do’Urden novels RA Salvatore really doesn’t need any introduction. However that said every author has to bring their A game to each new novel which is what he’s done with this tale, yet to be honest its pretty much the same sort of formula as is present with many of his other novels as Bransen is pretty much another Drizzt in a new form. Don’t get me wrong, its fun, its an adventure and its well sculpted so you really know what your going to get with one of Roberts books and its dependable to generate a tale that will tick all the right boxes even if its not a radical departure from his already established plot devices.

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