Passage to Dawn
Reviewed by Stephen Markel
R.A. Salvatore is well known in the Science Fiction genre, as is his character Drizzt Do'Urden. From the new cover style to the quote on the back from within the book, R.A. Salvatore knows how to bring readers back to harbor.
R.A. Salvatore uses great details to describe his short plot in such detail that the you, the reader, often find yourself easily picturing Twinkle, one of Drizzt's scimitars given to him by a friendly old adventurer. The wide expanse of Faerun, in particular the infamous Sea of Swords, is portrayed with superb specifics to detail and design.
However, one problem I find with the series is that the heaviness of details lengthens an event over a long period of pages. This often leaves the reader disappointed to see that Drizzt, a drow elf, has only made short progress over his long lifetime - Faerunian Elves have been known to live around 900 years on average. In other words, the writer often takes too much time describing the time needed for travel, the 'simple times' when characters take time to develop their battle prowess, build friendships with other characters or when they just go about their daily routine on a 'boring' day.
Despite that, this book is impressive, but because of all of the detail, I may take time out from this series to read a classic piece of literature. I am currently deciding between Vergil's "Aeneid", Dante's "Inferno", or "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", granted I can find an English-translated copy of any of them.
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