Reviews for Forgotten Realms: The Thousand Orcs (Hunter's Blades #1)

The average rating for Forgotten Realms: The Thousand Orcs (Hunter's Blades #1) based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-05-01 00:00:00 Rui Xie While most Drizzt books remain enjoyable, there are a few aspects which keep bothering me: 1) Stakes. Good guys simply do not die in this series, and it is exceedingly rare for new blood to enter the circle of protagonists. This means that, from a character perspective, one is stuck reading the same book over and over again. 2) Villains. Most of the series' antagonists are blatantly uninteresting, and simply there as obstacles for the same old protagonists to overcome again and again, with the exception of Artemis Entreri who's just an appallingly poorly written character. Why can the companions not have run-ins with some of the epic villains the Forgotten Realms can offer? The series is in many ways underrated by people who brush it aside as tie-in fiction. The writing, for instance, is on par with more recognised fantasy. The Forgotten Realms provides a setting that never stops to fascinate. And yet, these issues, and others, keep dragging the books down far below their actual potential.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-12-11 00:00:00 Jose Flores This book is horrible. I've followed Salvatore since the late 80's, when I was in middle school, and I have come to the conclusion that while his reader's have grown, his writing has not. Realizing this back like in '02/03, I purposefully ignored him until now. I figured I could read the last 7(Hunter's Blade, Sellswords, and Orc King) in a month or two, so I decided to get back on that wagon. This book in particular was just a complete ripoff of the Two Towers(not the book, the Movie. Ugh). From "The companions of the Hall", to the final attack on Helm's Deep, err I mean the town of Shallows, it's all the same. The characters themselves are wearing thin, with Wulfgar being the only enjoyable one to me. Cattie-Brie is a bore and a forced plot device. Drizzt is... Well what can you say, if he was in his "Fonz" stage 10 years ago(i.e., basically immortal only due to popularity) what is he now? The character is too powerful, unrelatable, and hinders and/or trivializes any story. Oh, and while I'm on the subject, his little journal entries don't work Bob, so just drop it. I'm not a complete hater and Salvatore(I loved his demon books, as well as his Cadderly stuff), and he is a great memory from my childhood, but he will be much better off if he stopped writing Drizzt for a while, if not forever once this latest Orc trilogy is complete.