Excellent -- Rises far above its peers

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	• Homeland (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, Book 1) R. A. Salvatore Wizards of the Coast, 2004 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 196 reviews view larger image
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Great! A fantasy epic.

I remember it so well, I had just finished The Return of the King and a friend recommended the Drizzt series. He let me borrow his copy of Homeland, and I was absorbed by the book. The fast-paced fight sequences, the insight into the politics of the drow, and of course Drizzt. The book amazed me. This book is a great start to a great series and you won't want to put it down! When you eventually have to, you will Immediately want to pick up the next book in the series, Exile.

R.A. Salvatore's Homeland

Homeland is the first book in the Dark Elf Trilogy, and is about a Drow named Drizzt. He is unique among the Drow since his eyes are purple, while everyone else has red eyes or blue if they are using their "heat vision." Another difference is his unwillingness to be like the rest of his race; evil and lacking honor. All throughout this book, he fights to keep his morals while having the Drow way of life pressed on him.

The story takes place in the underground caverns the Drow call home, and is referred to as the Underdark. The Drow live in a matriarchal system, women dominate the society and men are just seen as pawns. Within this system, they all worship and obey the spider queen Lloth and the ruling houses are centered on her. There are eight powerful houses, based on a spider's legs, with the rest of the houses going to war among each other and sometimes challenging one of the eight houses to move up in power.

Drizzt and his father Zaknafein, the greatest warrior in the city, both are the only "good" Drow, and both disagree with the Drow system and way of life. Zaknafein tries to help Drizzt escape it, and later is sacrificed to Lloth as punishment. This causes Drizzt, now a grown adult, to disown his evil kin and leave the city to find a new, better place in life.

I think this is a really great book. Salvatore doesn't use Tolkien's detail and doesn't need to. He describes something just enough to get a picture forming in the head. He made Drizzt a sympathetic person that is only looking for a place he can truly belong. Since it's such a great story, it makes me want to read the rest of the trilogy.

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Excellent -- Rises far above its peers

The sad truth is that these TSR novels, or I guess Wizards of the Coast now (even though Hasbro bought them out) is that they were fun in HIgh School when I was constantly wanting to play AD&D and not having friends to do it with, and generally hated life most of the time. But all these years later, as an adult, I shudder at the poor quality of most of them -- trash fantasy really.

HOWEVER, this book rises very far above all of it peers and is genuinely really good fantasy, with a particularly strong focus on right and wrong. I just reread it after 16 years, and am still strongly impressed and couldn't put it down. It is not Tolkien by a long shot, but few things indeed reach those lofty heights.

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I'm in love

I'm in love with the world of the underdark. The book is a masterpiece, a must read for anyone who likes fantasy. The strange evil society drew me in with grand detail. Well i get's my praise, that's obvious enough. Give it a read you'll probably love it to.

Excellent - Read this book until 7 am

This was an excellent book. While it is not an overly complex read, and I had worried that the book may be a bit simplistic and aimed solely at a younger audience, as I read the book I found my concerns more than met.

I started this book around 2:30 in the morning when I couldn't sleep, intending to read it for 30 minutes, however, the book's story was so engrossing that I ended up finishing the entire book (at 7 am) and heading to buy the next in the series at the local bookstore the next day, which I also read cover-to-cover.

A fascinating series that is highly enjoyable, though a leach on one's time. Highly recommended.

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