The fight scenes are described in great detail and they are quite long as well the author takes pleasure in describing swings of swords and clashes of weapons. It is a lot more dense than the previous books (including the Icewind Dale trilogy, which should be read before the Dark Elf trilogy), with a lot more cinematography than the rest of them as well. It is a story of solitude versus friendship, it's a story about facing fears, about fighting your own instincts and overcoming your own dark self. This is no easy feat alone, with Guenhwyvar that can only join him for a quarter of his time, he becomes his darkest self, The Hunter. The more dense 'Exile' places Drizzt in the solitude of the Underdark, before his greatest decision. I look forward to what other nuggets of wisdom will be hidden in the entries in the books to come.įiction reflects so much that is non-fiction, and should you like to discuss the parallels between this series and the history we continue to overlook I am glad to start and hold those conversations. They are the pause that readers need between altercations (verbal and physical), and offer plenty for the reader to reflect on given their own experiences. I continue to enjoy the journal entries of Drizzt at the start of each section of chapters. Sometimes all three will occur simultaneously.
Several key characters, and their unpredictable choices, will expel sighs of relief, budding tears of empathy, and gasps of perfect shock in each and ever reader. The next chapter in Drizzt's journey depicts the balance of the beauty and the pain that comes with friendship and passion, and in such a way that readers who have or have yet to experience similar epiphanies will find nothing but comfort at the book's conclusion.ĭrizzt, as well as may previous and new characters in the Forgotten Realms series, continue a passage where their character arch experiences the pros and cons of 'coming of age'. "Greater indeed are the pleasures that are shared," Drizzt Do'Urden (84).
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