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The Lone Drow: the Hunter's Blades Trilogy, Book II.(Book Review)
R.A. SALVATORE. Wizards of the Coast, $25.95 (346p) ISBN 0-7869-3012-8
At the start of bestseller Salvatore's second book in his Tolkienesque fantasy trilogy (after 2002's The Thousand Ores), hordes of ores, led by cruel King Obould Many-Arrows, sweep down mechanically and unexcitingly on beleaguered dwarves. When he isn't slaying ores, the story's hero, the dark elf drew loner Drizzt Do'Urden, suffers guilt for allowing a friendly elf to die in his stead and is attracted to Catti-brie, a beautiful human woman who is the ward of the dying dwarf king, Bruenor Battlehammer. The usual fantasy suspects--gnomes, trolls, elves, flying horses, unicorns, giants--crowd the …
