COVER: Todd Lockwood. I don't think that cover artists read the book they are doing the cover for. I
don't really expect them to. But can they please ask if the cover even resembles what the story is
about. For instance, this cover has a "king ghost" as an antagonist yet in the book it is a dragon
ghost (the prelude doesn't count). Also, the dwarf character, Athrogate, carries a weapon called
a morningstar. Well the morningstar described in the book is a spiked iron ball at the end of a
chain. The chain part is even clearly used to choke a character. The cover has Athrogate with
a variant of the morningstar that uses no chain. Is it really that hard to verify your concept with
the story before you paint?
WRITER: R.A. Salvatore. This is not a Drizzt Do'Urden novel. It is part two of the 'Sellswords' trilogy
staring the assassin Artemis Entreri and the drow Jarlaxle. The pair make for very interesting
lead characters. Always walking a fine line between hero and villain (Entreri being more villain
than not) the pair travel looking for adventure with very personal motivations. A couple of old
dragons have "hired" the pair to retrieve a very powerful book of magic. On the way they join
a group of adventurers who seem to have the same objective. With the strong personalities that
Entreri and Jarlaxle carry it is only a matter of time before things become complicated. I like
seeing these two together. It always feels as if they are going to fight each other yet they have
not...yet. The book can get a bit slow at times and (like most of these Forgotten Realms books)
it gets cluttered with new characters and names to keep track of.
FINAL FILE: Buy it, Read it, Shelve it!...cant live on comics alone kids.
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