Canticle - Introduction And Prologue

[kalinara]

Now that I've finished Renegades of Pern, it's time for a new book! And this one is going to be a very new book for me, because I've never read it.

Basically, while I've been (slowly) reviewing books in the Drizzt saga, I received a suggestion to review some of Mr. Salvatore's other Forgotten Realms books. It sounded like fun.

I don't think Salvatore's a bad writer at all. He delivers pretty fun action-adventure with characters that are vivid and engaging. Drizzt as a character annoys the hell out of me, but I actually really enjoyed his trilogy starring Artemis Entreri. I actually wonder if Salvatore isn't better at writing characters with more complex morality, rather than paragons of virtue. This might be an interesting test, because Canticle is the first book in the Cleric's Quintet. So I'm guessing the lead character, Cadderly, will also be fairly virtuous.

I think I might have encountered these characters before, in the Entreri books, but I don't remember them very well, so I shouldn't have too many preconceived notions.

( Let's start with a prologue! )