And now that William Gibson served as a buffer between a Nobel Prize winner and this guy:
The Crystal Shard by R.A. Salvatore is $1.99 at Amazon US.
I've never hopped on the Salvatore band wagon. What I have read from him (the first third of Canticle) was just awful. But hey, who am I to judge?
The synopsis is written as if this is the middle of a story. But like Star Wars, this book was the first released, even if afterward it was labelled episode IV.
It was also originally written as a stand-alone, until the popularity of the book justified sequels and prequels.
Quote:
Now settled in Icewind Dale, Drizzt Do’Urden finds new friends, foes—and a young barbarian ward with the makings of a hero
With his days in the Underdark far behind him, drow ranger Drizzt Do’Urden sets down roots in the windswept Ten-Towns of Icewind Dale. A cold and unforgiving place, Ten-Towns sits on the brink of a catastrophic war, threatened by the barbarian tribes of the north.
It’s in the midst of battle that a young barbarian named Wulfgar is captured and made the ward of Bruenor, a grizzled dwarf leader and a companion to Drizzt. With Drizzt’s help, Wulfgar will grow from a feral child to a man with the heart of a dwarf, the instincts of a savage, and the soul of a hero. But it will take even more than that to defeat the corrupt wizard who wields the demonic power of Crenshininbon—the fabled Crystal Shard.
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