Well, call me controversial, but one of the worst books I have read recently was “Legacy of the Drow – Collector’s Edition” by R.A.Salvatore.
Where do I begin when trying to describe the tedium of this book……hmmmm, well lets start with the characters. If they were any more two-dimensional, they would disappear when viewed side on. Most of the action seemed to revolve around some elf called Drizzly Turban and some woman named after a French soft cheese. There were some other players, but they were either stereotypical villain types or annoying archetypes like the idiot barbarian and the stroppy dwarves.
Then there is the action. Sorry if this is a spoiler, but the book basically follows this structure.
1) Drizzly fights against overwhelming odds….
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2) Drizzly moons about over the French cheese woman
3) Drizzly and the other characters go somewhere else
4) Return to step 1)
A couple of other nitpicks to finish with. Drizzly’s swords - I can’t remember what they were called exactly, but I think they were named Ticklestick and Sausage Slicer or something like that. This threw the whole saga off balance as it was obvious that he would be able to slaughter whole legions of opponents as they rolled about on the ground, helpless with laughter at such absurdly named weaponry.
Finally, the big bad was some demon or other. If this epitome of evil had been any more stupid, it would have had trouble getting a daypass from the Hellish Home for the Feebleminded, let alone menacing anything with and IQ greater than single figures.
I could think of some more to say, but that would be overly iconoclastic, so I’ll just finish this now
