Solid, good-reading fantasy from Salvatore. It builds itself up to a satisfying climax of action and revelation, with lots of good storytelling in between. Salvatore can make a journey in a span of pages, not chapters, and I think that’s why I prefer him to writers like Jordan—he gets the reader where the reader wants to go, without dragging things out to an ungodly length. Each chapter of his novels has direction and advances the plot in some meaningful way. I was staggeringly surprised at the revelation that Le’lorinel was actually the girl that Drizzt saved as a young drow—probably the best twist since Ender. Great irony for my dollar, too. Wulfgar’s reuniting with his friends was everything it should have been, as was his performance with Aegis-fang when he finally got it back into his hands. It was reminiscent of IDT, in that it swash-buckled and flew along with plenty of face time for Drizzt and just enough peripheral story to make the conclusion what it needed to be. Are we ever going to get Drizzt and Catti-brie hooked up?