The Halfling's Gem - R. A. Salvatore

TSR, 1990, 314 pages

ISBN: 0-88038-901-X 

Read: October 2020, age 42

Icewind Dale Trilogy, book 3

As ever, somebody's D&D campaign does not make for an effective novel.  It's just murder-hoboes doing murder-hobo things.

Rating: 2

Streams of Silver - R. A. Salvatore

TSR, 1989, 342 pages

ISBN: 0-88038-672-X

Read: September 2020, age 42

Icewind Dale trilogy, book 2 

This was a bad book. D&D campaigns don't translate well to novels.  I stopped reading and went to sleep with twenty pages to go. Sunken cost fallacy, here we come!

Rating: 2

The Crystal Shard - R. A. Salvatore

TSR, 1988, 333 pages  
ISBN: 0-88038-535-9
Read August 2020, age 42

Icewind Dale trilogy, book 1

Generally poorly written and repetitive, with a one-line paragraph (often a fragment) at the end of each section.  So many, many stingers.  And each knocked me out of the book with a sour grimace.  Interesting characters, because they're archetypes that have been overused and abused horribly since this book came out, but that's about it.  I'll read the sequels, because this is the author's first book, and I believe that he does get better.

Rating: 2