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Streams of Silver - Chapter Seventeen
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kalinaraSo last time, our heroes met a really old dude and discovered the best way to find a lost city is through Post Traumatic Stress flashbacks.
In the meantime, god knows what our villains are doing. I think that's a bit of a problem in this book. The villains aren't incompetent, like Akar Kessell, and there's theoretically a decently high stake...albeit we really haven't had the chance to get to know Catti-brie before this book. That's a failing of Crystal Shard. The problem is, the villain plot feels almost like an afterthought.
I feel like the least Salvatore could have done was let them spring their trap. Or heck, maybe instead of Alustriel arbitrarily keeping Drizzt out, we could have had Sydney and Entreri convince the people of Silverymoon that Drizzt, as a drow, is evil. Admittedly, that sort of duplicity isn't really Artemis Entreri's style, but this was his introduction, so it could have been. The trap could have been effective in one sense, as they're believed, but a failure in another, since Drizzt and company were driven off instead.
At least I'd have felt like the villains did something.
( It's possible I spoke too soon )
In the meantime, god knows what our villains are doing. I think that's a bit of a problem in this book. The villains aren't incompetent, like Akar Kessell, and there's theoretically a decently high stake...albeit we really haven't had the chance to get to know Catti-brie before this book. That's a failing of Crystal Shard. The problem is, the villain plot feels almost like an afterthought.
I feel like the least Salvatore could have done was let them spring their trap. Or heck, maybe instead of Alustriel arbitrarily keeping Drizzt out, we could have had Sydney and Entreri convince the people of Silverymoon that Drizzt, as a drow, is evil. Admittedly, that sort of duplicity isn't really Artemis Entreri's style, but this was his introduction, so it could have been. The trap could have been effective in one sense, as they're believed, but a failure in another, since Drizzt and company were driven off instead.
At least I'd have felt like the villains did something.
( It's possible I spoke too soon )