R.A. Salvatore's "The Silent Blade", #141
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katikatCan the Crystal Shard be destroyed at last?
Drizzt is determined to destroy the evil Crystal Shard, and seeks out the help of the scholar-priest Cadderly. But instead, his worst fears are realized, and Crenshinibon falls into the hands of the dark elf mercenary Jarlaxle and his unlikely ally Artemis Entreri.
Review: This book feels like a one big filler, I don't even know why. It just plods along, there's no big climax or anything. It follows three story lines: Drizzt, Catti-brie, Regis and Bruenor's, then Wulfgar's and Entreri's. It's a good book but, I don't know, the spark's missing, I guess.
Also, what really irked me was how Drizzt and Catti-brie, mostly it was those two, were all about how they wanted to give Wulfgar time and space to get better - and at the same time they kept nagging and nagging, wanting him to be the same Wulfgar he had been before the yochlol took him, as if they knew better what he needed/wanted. And when it didn't go well, it was hard for them to ~forgive~ Wulfgar his behavior. I was all WHAT? Wulfgar's the victim here, it should be about what ~he~ needs, not what ~you~ need. And the last straw? When Catti-brie consented to sleep with Wulfgar to ~help~ him - right, to sleep with someone out of pity is so good and pristine!
Yes, I'm tired of Drizzt and Catti-brie being the Marty-Sue and Mary-Sue of these books. They can't do any wrong, they are wise and serene and so zen! Right. You know, there's being the "good guy" and then there's "Marty/Mary-sue-ism", and this smacks of the latter.
Drizzt is determined to destroy the evil Crystal Shard, and seeks out the help of the scholar-priest Cadderly. But instead, his worst fears are realized, and Crenshinibon falls into the hands of the dark elf mercenary Jarlaxle and his unlikely ally Artemis Entreri.
Review: This book feels like a one big filler, I don't even know why. It just plods along, there's no big climax or anything. It follows three story lines: Drizzt, Catti-brie, Regis and Bruenor's, then Wulfgar's and Entreri's. It's a good book but, I don't know, the spark's missing, I guess.
Also, what really irked me was how Drizzt and Catti-brie, mostly it was those two, were all about how they wanted to give Wulfgar time and space to get better - and at the same time they kept nagging and nagging, wanting him to be the same Wulfgar he had been before the yochlol took him, as if they knew better what he needed/wanted. And when it didn't go well, it was hard for them to ~forgive~ Wulfgar his behavior. I was all WHAT? Wulfgar's the victim here, it should be about what ~he~ needs, not what ~you~ need. And the last straw? When Catti-brie consented to sleep with Wulfgar to ~help~ him - right, to sleep with someone out of pity is so good and pristine!
Yes, I'm tired of Drizzt and Catti-brie being the Marty-Sue and Mary-Sue of these books. They can't do any wrong, they are wise and serene and so zen! Right. You know, there's being the "good guy" and then there's "Marty/Mary-sue-ism", and this smacks of the latter.
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Date: 2009-12-13 01:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-13 01:09 pm (UTC)It's just that Cattie-brie ruins everything.
Date: 2009-12-13 09:22 pm (UTC)I cannot stand her. At all. She's so Mary Sue. She's so obnoxious. Like, what is the deal that all the dudes or dudelike species have to get in her chainmail? No! She's not all that! She's terribly sparkly and officious and omg the nagging. The terrible, terrible nagging.
And you know me. You know I love me some dark elves. So I really want to like Drizzt, but there is Cattie-brie all over the place and it is all bad.
Re: It's just that Cattie-brie ruins everything.
Date: 2009-12-13 09:30 pm (UTC)