Streams Of Silver Review

Streams Of Silver by R. A. Salvatore
A review by Neil Richard

Overall Rating = 5 out of 5

This being the second book in a trilogy, it’s always subject to extra scrutiny.  The primary question is always will it live up to the first book.  Often times sequels just aren’t as good as the first one.

This one is as good the first one, if not better.

To this day, I’ll always remember how I felt when I read the end of this book for the first time.  But let’s start at the beginning.

At the end of The Crystal Shard, we saw Drizzt, Bruenor, Wulfgar, Regis, and Catti-Brie (now dubbed the Companions of the Hall) defeat Akar Kessel and the Crystal Shard.  Bruenor convinces Drizzt and Wulfgar to follow him on a quest for his childhood home, Mithral Hall.  Streams Of Silver (a reference to the mithral ore the dwarves mine) picks up with the companions heading out of Icewind Dale to find Mithral Hall.  Catti-Brie stays behind until confronted by the assassin, Artemis Entreri.  She then follows their trail, but not by choice, as Entreri has kidnapped her.  We now have a damsel in distress and a quest for lost treasure.

With swords flying against the trolls and laughs filling their guts with the Harpels, Streams Of Silver has a wonderful combination of humor and action.

And cliffhangers.

Mithral Hall is found, then lost again.  Entreri and Drizzt die, then live again.  Regis is hunted by Entreri, safe, then kidnapped.  Bruenor is king, then dies on the back of a dragon.  Or does he?

And that’s the ending that made me hoot and holler.  I can still remember reading the very last line about another stone shifting and I just about screamed.  I had to wait for the next book to come out before I could find out what happened to Bruenor.

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