Night of the Hunter: Companions Codex, I Hardcover – March 11, 2014
Author: Visit ‘s R. A. Salvatore Page ID: 0786965118
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R.A. Salvatore is the New York Times best-selling author of more than forty novels, including the popular Forgotten Realms series The Legend of Drizzt. He’s an avid gamer, father of three, and loyal citizen of Red Sox Nation.
Series: Companions CodexHardcover: 384 pagesPublisher: Wizards of the Coast; First Edition edition (March 11, 2014)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0786965118ISBN-13: 978-0786965113 Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #73,664 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2353 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Epic
In The Companions R. A. Salvatore brought Drizzt’s old friends The Companions of the Hall back to life. He did this in an amazing original way. Our heroes were not simply resurrected, instead they were given the chance to come back as newborn children. When they were born they had all of their memories of their past life and were fully conscious of this from the moment of birth. The book followed the first twenty-one years of the new lives of Cattie-Brie, Bruennor, and Regis as they grow and develop in their new personas. Each of them faces challenges and each of them grows in understanding as they prepare to meet again in Icewind Dale to stand beside their friend Drizzt.
Night of the Hunter picks up where both The Companions and The Last Threshold end. Readers of Salvatore’s Drizzt books know that he likes keeping a lot of different plot strands going at once. In Night of the Hunter this tendency is taken to the limit. There are at least four main plot lines going throughout the book. There are several other minor ones as well and they all touch, move on, bump in to another, and ricochet off that I felt at times like I needed to keep a score card to keep up with every character and plot happening around me. We follow more intrigues of Menzoberranzan as the Baenre family seeks to increase it’s powerful hold on the city. These intrigues include the new Drow city of Q’Xorlarrin that is being constructed in the ancient dwarven city of Gauntlgrym. Add to that the continuing story of Drizzt and his new friends, and the more recent companions of Drizzt and you have quite the story.
The primary story line follows Drizzt and the Companions as they work their way back to Gauntlygrim. Their mission their is to find their old friend Thibbledorf Pwent who has been turned into a vampire.
R.A. Salvatore has exceeded reasonable expectations with this episode in the continuing saga of Drizzt Do’Urden – gifting fantasy fans with a page-turning sword and sorcery adventure that is full of swashbuckling action, shadowy intrigue, and amazing character development. Honestly, this new and improved version of the Companions of the Hall is a compelling read and might be the beginning of a renaissance for The Legend of Drizzt Do’Urden, breathing fresh life into old characters who have been desperately missed by the dark elf as well as by his many fans.
As frequent readers will already know, in The Companions, Mr. Salvatore resurrected Drizzt’s old friends, The Companions of the Hall, but did not raise them from the grave. Instead, Bruenor, Catt-brie, Regis, and Wulfgar were reborn into the world as newborn babies. Unlike normal children, however, these four retained all of their memories from their past life and were fully aware of who they were the moment they opened their eyes. From this point, Mr. Salvatore did an outstanding job of weaving an intriguing tale of the first twenty-one years of Bruenor, Catt-brie, and Regis’ lives as they grew to adulthood, developed new talents and slowly evolved into similar yet different people. But no matter their new personas, each of the Companions inevitably wove their way through life and its innumerable obstacles to met again in Icewind Dale on a certain day at a certain spot when their old companion Drizzt was in desperate need of their assistance.
Night of the Hunter picks up immediately after the events in The Companions. Now reunited, the Companions of the Hall must see if their former friendship has survived Bruenor, Catt-brie, Regis, and Wulfgar’s resurrection. Naturally, there are issues.
The Companions were unfairly killed off by events within the Forgotten Realms world that Salvatore had no real control over and now, after fighting tooth and nail to have his way, they’re back. So what fittingly epic adventure do these heroes go on? Nothing new, just retreads of old territory, like clearing Gauntlgrym or talking about Obould’s Kingdom. But at least Drizzt takes on the mantle of the Hunter right? Like he did in Lone Drow or even before that when he was surviving in the lightless Underdark? Nope.
The title of the book is Night of the Hunter, but those familiar with Drizzt will be sorely disappointed that he never goes rogue or really reverts to the Hunter at all. There is actually no Night of the Hunter in Night of the Hunter, unless you just count some more generic fight scenes that happen to contain Drizzt. At this point it would be impossible for Salvatore to put any real tension into these scenes now that we know his characters can die and then just come back via some very actual deus ex machina (as in a goddess is actually responsible). Salvatore is officially like George Lucas, with no one at Forgotten Realms apparently brave enough to step in and help explain to him what good story-telling means.
But the Companions are back right, so it must be good, except that there are things that sour the Companions coming back and here I will delve into spoilers. Bruenor, who was my favorite companion other than Drizzt. Now Bruenor’s amazingly emotional send-off in Gauntlgrym is worthless because he’s not only alive again but young again. Plus he has some disturbingly racist things to say in this book regarding orcs and how they are actually fundamentally evil and deserve to be killed and how setting up a peace treaty was wrong.
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