The Dragon King

Overview

The Crimson Shadow...Committing border massacres with demon magic, evil King Greensparrow and his sorcerous dukes shatter their treaty with the Wizard-King Brind'Amour. The final war between Avon and liberated Eriador is joined in steel and dire wizardries across land, sea, and air. Yet all the valor of Eriador's allies, all the daring of Luthien Bedwyr, the Crimson Shadow, cannot defeat Greensparrow's ultimate weapon-himself. For Avon's king is not human but an immortal hell-monster who has spent centuries plotting, murdering every mage who could stand against him. Except one...The Crimson Shadow

The bestselling epic of heroes, wizards, elves, dwarfs, and brigands battling for liberty in a world of high adventure: The Crimson Shadow; The Sword of Bedwyr; Luthien's Gamble and The Dragon King

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Editorial Reviews

Plenty of sound and fury but precious little fire rumbles in the belly of Salvatore's pseudo-Tolkien conclusion to the Crimson Shadow trilogy. Here, Avon's foppish evil wizard-king, Greensparrow, and his dragon alter ego provoke Eriador's wizard-king, Brind'Amour, into breaking the flimsy truce achieved in Luthien's Gamble (Forecasts, Jan. 29). Though badly outnumbered by Avon's "cyclopians," Brind'Amour and his assorted allies assault Avon to free Eriador forever. With the help of Luthien (whose magic alter ego is the Crimson Shadow), Katerin (the Shadow's warrior-maid lover), Siobhan (a revengeful half-elf rape victim), Oliver (a mouthy half-pint "halfting") and a flotilla of nouveau Vikings, the wizard-king slashes through acres of monsters and sloshes through torrents of gore. Despite the rivers of blood, however, Salvatore's vocabulary and imagination prove dry. Supposedly noble characters "smirk," "snicker" and "bat their eyes," and no cliche is left unused: even Saddam Hussein is paraphrased for the coming "grandfather of those battles." Salvatore's tired story depends on gratuitous violence and misused motifs from classic sources (Tolkien's Luthien was a fetching Elf-princess, for example, not a male hero with a fragile ego). These lumbering false steps make Salvatore stumble badly in his attempts to evoke memories of Middle Earth. (Nov.) -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

Author Information

Bio of R. A. Salvatore

Writer R. A. Salvatore was born in Leominster, Massachusetts and graduated from Fitchburg State College. He has published more than a dozen novels, mostly fantasy, including The Halfling's Gem, Sojourn, The Legacy and Starless Night (all New York Times bestsellers), but has also written the Star Wars novel, Vector Prime.

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Additional Info

Imprint

Hachette Book Group USA

Filesize

1.67 MB

Number of Pages

384

eBook ISBN

9780446406628