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Summary: a great read if your tired of drizzt and his friends
Review: it was great to finally read a book about the drow other than drizzt's own warped reality. liriel opened up the drow city and system like drizzt never did. a definte must read if your a fan of the underdark.
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Summary: Beautiful.... FANTASTIC!!!
Review: I am utterly speechless. When I first read Elaine Cunninghams book called "Daughter of the Drow", I simply couldnt lay down the book. Those nightly hours spent with the beautiful mysterious Lirial and the fearsome warrior Fyodor is all you could ever ask for in a realm of Fantasy. Deffenently one of the best books I have ever read. Its keeping me up in the sleepless hours at night time, and its uniqe ability to draw you into that exact life they live is stunning!!
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Summary: Good thing you made it a two book series, Elaine!
Review: I must be one of the biggest fans of Elaine Cunningham and her works. That is why "only" 3 stars seems to be a very low ranking. In my humble opinion however, they are justified. Let me explain... The idea of a new underdark novel is a good one. Although I have only read two novels by R.A. Salvatore I was already a bit annoyed by his pseudo perfect do-gooder protagonist Drizzt. Elaine can give the drow and Menzoberranzan more depth than Salvatore ever could. Also I think she wanted to try out a new female protagonist, with her previous hero Arilyn (although I loved her) being a bit on the cold, "too elven", honorable, no fun side. I was much more fond of Elaith and that was just the point as I read on in this novel. Cunningham's drow seem so much less like the evil dark elves of Salvatore's Underdark, but more like her wicked surface elves. If Elaith had been a female sorcerer instead of a warrior...Liriel is just the way he would have turned out. I don't think Cunningham really got into the drow but rather projected her existing elf characteristics on them! That is my main point of criticism... the story is still good and makes you want to read more, but it can at times be confusing and uncoordinated. When the book was over, I somehow had the feeling that nothing really happened, which I really hate. I suggest only buying it if you also buy the sequel which makes a bit up for it. Divination
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Summary: female drow the meanest little ladies you'll ever meet
Review: all about the drow trough a female's eyes!!! Wow and you thaught your date was tuff wait until you met her!!!!
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Summary: A MUST READ BOOK
Review: Daughter of the Drow is a magnificent book. I've read it three times. This is the only book that I've been able to read more than once. If you haven't read it I strongly recommend that you do. The story that was told was great. The way that it was put together was perfect. I found no glitches or places that could be changed. Every time I read it I found something new.
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Summary: A story worthy to be read by candlelight
Review: Elaine cinningham has taken the spirit of the Drow and truned it into a wild ride. She has flare and style and a dark sense of humor only a dark elf could hold to heart. Takeing up the mantle from A.A.Salvatore .. Elaine shows us a side of the Drow hinted at but not yet explored...And we drow spirits thank you from the darkest depths of Underdark This book is a must read and will stir your soul and leave you hungry for more.
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Summary: pathetic
Review: Cunningham seems to have been the last person who should have taken over the dark elf world Menzoberrenzan after Salvatrore left it. Aside from the contradictions, a lot of it is just stupid. Salvatore created a world of dark elves who were ambitious, unfeeling, and killed when it served their purposes. Cunningham turned them into loving, caring, mass murderers who attack everything and everyone on a whim. I mean, I thought it was unrealistic that the death rate was pretty high compared to the birth rate of the city when Salvatore wrote it. Now it seems like the average life span of a drow is 6 days. The lead character has a friend of 7 years who attacks her for no reason whatsoever. Gee, you'd think after 7 years they would have had an argument that would have spurred the inevitable battle. Then, there were human traders in the drow city. The Underdark is suppossed to be dangerous! Are these 30th level merchants daring the dangers of the underworld to find a city that ! surface dwellors are not suppossed to know about to trade with a race of people so feared, seeing one of them on the surface sends people running and screaming for evacuation? The drow, needing the trade because of their devastated economy, ofcourse kill them for no real reason. So when do the drow actually surpress this unprecidented amount of murder lust? Why only when they are actually come across a surface dweller that they view as a threat ofcourse! A threat that happens to be a main character and therefore, once they cast a paralyzation spell on him, rendering the secondary star of the book helpless, instead of killing him, the leader of the violent drow raiding party says the most outrageously stupid villian comment ever (not to mention the oldest), "Let's leave him here to die." The really sad thing is, Goldfinger and the Joker would usually say this after they have trapped the hero in some cunning and devious death trap. Here, the drow and the fighter are in! a simple wooded area. They saw the fighter made it there b! y himself, so there is no reason he would die at all. The reader wasn't even expected to consider the character's death. What the hell? Cunningham created creatures whose characters don't even seem to have the intelligence of gnats, much less "dimension".
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Summary: Spellbinding, inthralling, truely another good novel.
Review: Elain Cunningham has captured the magic and the wonder that makes up the Forgotten Realms. The story of the Drow female in the story has many life experiences that make the story so good. It tells about life, love, and the choices that one must make in order to have their own lives suceed for themselves, and also the consequences that go along with the choices hand in hand. This is a great beging to an enthralling story.
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Summary: Liriel is a better character than Drizzt.
Review: I have come to find that anything Elaine Cunningham writes for AD&D is great, and this book is no execption. "Daughter of the Drow" tells the story of Liriel, a noble drow from Menzoberranzan, who like Drizzt, is not the average noble drow. I liked this book better than R.A. Salvatores writings because I have come to realize that Drizzt whined constantly about morality, which just got annoying.
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Summary: Underdark adventures with a human touch
Review: I enjoyed Daughter of the Drow immensely. Much more than I initially expected. As some of the other reviews here suggest, this novel provides a fresh interpretation on the life of the Drow. Liriel Banre (sp?) is a fantastic, exciting and mischevious leading character suffering under a restrictive society. She is sharp and full of life and Fydor, the 2nd lead character is her perfect foil. The reason for the different style of writing is mainly due to a talented female building an environment that imbues the D & D world with mystery, passion and excitement - not just hack and slash etc etc. There is a feeling of something regal about Menzoberranzan - a place that is to be admired and feared. I also I enjoyed the discovery of new Drow Gods - what a great way to expand the Drow pantheon than by "underground" (pardon the pun) Gods, that most of the Drow don't know about. Convenient, yes, but also apt for the Drow culture with all their backstabbing and plotting behind the scenes. Highly recommended, and a must if you've ready any other underdark novels or played an underdark module!
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