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    Sojourn: The Legend of Drizzt

    By R. A. Salvatore

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    Lone drow Drizzt Do’Urden emerges from the Underdark into the blinding light of day in this epic final chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-inspired Dark Elf Trilogy.

    After years spent in the ruthless confines of the Underdark, Drizzt Do’Urden has emerged from the subterranean society of his youth to start a new life. Accompanied by his loyal panther, Drizzt begins exploring the surface of Faerûn, a world unlike any he has ever known. From skunks to humanoids to shapeshifters, Faerûn is full of unfamiliar races and fresh dangers, which Drizzt must better understand if he is to survive.

    But while Drizzt acts with the best intentions, many of the surface dwellers regard him with fear and distrust. Can he manage to find faithful allies in this foreign land—or is he doomed to be a lonely outsider, just as he was in the Underdark?

    Sojourn is the third book in the Dark Elf Trilogy and the Legend of Drizzt series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateJun 23, 2009
    ISBN9780786954032
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    Sojourn: The Legend of Drizzt
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    R. A. Salvatore

    Over three decades ago, R. A. Salvatore created the character of Drizzt Do’Urden, the dark elf who has withstood the test of time to stand today as an icon in the fantasy genre. With his work in the Forgotten Realms, the Crimson Shadow, the DemonWars Saga, and other series, Salvatore has sold more than thirty million books worldwide and has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list more than two dozen times. He considers writing to be his personal journey, but still, he’s quite pleased that so many are walking the road beside him! R.A. lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Diane, and their two dogs, Dexter and Pikel. He still plays softball for his team, Clan Battlehammer, and enjoys his weekly DemonWars: Reformation RPG and Dungeons & Dragons 5e games. 

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    • 3/5
      About the same as book 1
    • 4/5
      The usual fun Salvatore.
    • 3/5
      Okay... quickly blowing through the unavoidable need to justify my thoughts.These are fun books. Not great books, but in the context of your "straight down the middle fantasy" they are good books. I read them first in highschool many years ago. I wanted something right to read while I'm working weird hours, and going to sleep by 5 in the afternoon. Something where if I forget most of what I read the day before, it wouldn't matter. So I'm burning through this series again.Here are some thoughts.When I read these books the first time I was playing D&D pretty regularly. I'm not now (unfortunately, if anyone is looking to put a group together and you want a middle aged white guy with self esteem issues who works stupid hours and has a habit of cancelling social engagements because his reclusive life in IT has caused his burgeoning social phobias to blossom into full blown phobias - give me a call). What I'm noticing is that these books are written like someone took a D&D character and wrote a story about them. That's almost kinda fun if you play, or played D&D. (Possible spoilers, but if you've made it it to book three I really really hope not)Like Drizzt's globe of darkness or levitation as innate drown abilities. Or when something takes a +1 or better weapon to hit. But there are times when it makes the books feel a bit clumsy. And I imagine even more so for someone who hasn't played D&D. For example, is Sojourn Drizzt begins his career as a ranger. D&D players will go "ohh, he get's an affinity with animals, a racial enemy, and tracking abilities". And in the books, all those things happen. But they kinda just happen. The animal handling/empathy for example. Works prefectly fine in the context of a D&D campaign. But in the context of a novel, a dark elf who has always lived underground, in a city most of his life, then in the wilds killing most of the creatures he came across, suddenly being able to calm wild beasts seems a bit out of the blue.Not a huge deal, but it's there.Here's another reason to start with the other trilogy (The Icewind Dale trilogy, that comes after these chronologically, but were written before the Dark Elf trilogy.) Continuity isn't perfect. Nothing plot breaking. But when you go from the Dark Elf trilogy into the Icewind Dale trilogy you notice them. On the other hand, they are small enough that if you read the Icewind Dale trilogy first, which takes a littel bit of time telling you aobut Drizzt's past, by the time you circle back to the Dark elf trilogy you'll have forgotten the details that don't match up.Okay. Like the others. This was a fun book. It has some issues, but I don't think it's aspiring to be anything more than a fun book.
    • 4/5
      The icewind Dale trilogy was one of my favorite reads that I couldn't remember from back when I was younger. I always wanted to get back to it and see why I liked it then. Before doing so I decided to read The Dark Elf trilogy to get the full back story before I got back to it. Boy was I glad I did so. I enjoyed the first two volumes but this third one was by far the best one.

      Drizzt ventures to the surface and encounters many hardships and trials as a result. The story moves along fast as he encounters new challenges down every path he chooses. Some of the friends he makes are some of the story's strength. The relationships developed strengthens Drizzt as a whole and I can't wait to start the next chapter in his story.
    • 4/5
      The icewind Dale trilogy was one of my favorite reads that I couldn't remember from back when I was younger. I always wanted to get back to it and see why I liked it then. Before doing so I decided to read The Dark Elf trilogy to get the full back story before I got back to it. Boy was I glad I did so. I enjoyed the first two volumes but this third one was by far the best one.

      Drizzt ventures to the surface and encounters many hardships and trials as a result. The story moves along fast as he encounters new challenges down every path he chooses. Some of the friends he makes are some of the story's strength. The relationships developed strengthens Drizzt as a whole and I can't wait to start the next chapter in his story.
    • 4/5
      When I first began the Dark Elf Trilogy I wasn't sure I would like it. But I very quickly read all three books and grew quite fond of Drizzt. Admist all the darkness and evil that he faced, he held fast to his morals and fought for what he knew was right. Drizzt is a character I will take with me wherever I go.
    • 3/5
      The final book in this particular Drizzt trilogy (but there are still loads more books with him in). This was much more interesting as he develops his skills as a ranger, but the storyline did lack the depth to make it really stand out.
    • 2/5
      The time taken to finish Sojourn is a good indication of my feelings on the story. Drizzt's tale of prejudice and acceptance is not badly written, just lacking any real excitement or purpose.
    • 4/5
      Overall, a good end to the trilogy. It felt rushed in several spots though. Like the author had a contract with TSR to write another Drizzt trilogy and he was supposed to keep the page count down. Some characters could have been hashed out much better, and some sections could have lasted for quite a few more pages. I think the book could have been almost twice as long and still been a good read.
    • 4/5
      In this final book about is past life in drow society, Drizz't finally gets free of his family and the various demons (literally, sometimes) of drow society. Making his way alone through the treacherous Underdark, he stumbles trying to adapt to the surface, and finally meets the perfect tutor for his new life. As with the other books in this series, if you are a dungeons and dragons fan, or just like good fantasy, this is an excellent exploration of the Underdark and one drow's journey from darkness to light, in several ways. Great stuff.
    • 2/5
      Pretty much lost my interest about halfway thru the book. I slogged thru it but certainly didn't gain any satisfaction in finishing it. Sad how this trilogy went from an incredibly strong opening book and did nothing but get significantly weaker as the series went on.
    • 2/5
      I confess I listened to this while playing an old SSI Forgotten Realms game and probably paid attention to about half of it. I mostly checked out during the battle scenes, particularly the battle with the orcs in the middle of the book. I suppose it is marginally more interesting than Books 2 and 4-6, as Drizzt acclimates to living above ground and there is more character development. But he is such a boring, cardboard hero and the villain of the novel, a bigoted human bounty hunter, is also quite a comedown from the Drow matrons Drizzt faced off against in Books 1 and 2.
    • 4/5
      Nice conclusion to the prequel trilogy. I believe that this series is better read in the published order rather then time-line order that the publisher suggests by it's numbering scheme.
    • 4/5
      I’m pretty sure this was my second time reading this book. It doesn’t deliver as well as its predecessors, but it’s still a great book. This book focuses a lot on the concept of hope and fitting in, something that most people can relate to. Unfortunately the book’s position as a bridge between one great set of stories and another is pretty evident. A lot of the time that passes in the book seems like filler, especially after he flees Maldobar. It is interesting, though to see how Drizzt makes the transition from Underdark to surface dweller. His crisis of faith is also quite compelling.As a side note, the exchanges between Dove Falconhand (and her band) and Fret are hilarious. This is our first chance to see a Salvatore dwarf up close, and what a great one to start with. Also, when recommending the proper order for reading these books, one should start with the Icewind Dale trilogy and then come back to the Dark Elf trilogy because Salvatore gives away some important elements of the Crystal Shard and others in the Epilogue of Sojourn.