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jornan
Learned Scribe
Canada
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 Posted - 30 Jul 2013 : 23:15:38
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Received my copy in the mail yesterday. :) That's the last two RAS books a week before release day for me. So lucky....now if only I wasn't so busy with work and life I could actually read it :(
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Elsenrail
Seeker
Poland
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Posted - 02 Aug 2013 : 17:13:17
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| I have just received th book as well. There is a map o faerun, but it's clearly 4e Faerun. Hmm... |
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Richard Lee Byers
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
1814 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2013 : 18:34:33
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| With regard to the map, remember that Bob's novel is the first book in the sequence, and the cartography shows the Realms at the moment the Sundering is about to being. Just sayin'. |
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Elsenrail
Seeker
Poland
72 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2013 : 18:41:41
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Actually, the release date of the book is 6th August. I was really surprised it was delivered to me so soon... especially that I live outside US - in Poland. I generally get the books on the release date or one day before/after.
Thanks for the info Richard. ;) |
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jornan
Learned Scribe
Canada
256 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2013 : 22:23:05
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I'm 100 pages in and it really is one of the best written and enjoyable books that RAS has written so far. I've enjoyed every Drizzt book, but admit things were feeling a bit stagnant for a while there, but this one is breathing new life into the series.
I suspect we will see the maps progressively change as the Sundering continues through each book. That would be cool. |
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jornan
Learned Scribe
Canada
256 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2013 : 22:23:57
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I'm 100 pages in and it really is one of the best written and enjoyable books that RAS has written so far. I've enjoyed every Drizzt book, but admit things were feeling a bit stagnant for a while there, but this one is breathing new life into the series.
I suspect we will see the maps progressively change as the Sundering continues through each book. That would be cool. |
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Gyor
Master of Realmslore
1625 Posts |
Posted - 03 Aug 2013 : 15:25:34
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| I'm only on chapter 8 but it really is the best he's written, but also very different, neat, but different. |
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Tarlyn
Learned Scribe
USA
315 Posts |
Posted - 03 Aug 2013 : 19:48:09
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Tarlyn Embersun |
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Gyor
Master of Realmslore
1625 Posts |
Posted - 04 Aug 2013 : 21:31:44
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Well its the year of 1484 DR, but an aweful lot of it is placed before that.
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Gyor
Master of Realmslore
1625 Posts |
Posted - 04 Aug 2013 : 22:25:03
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SPOILER ALERT:SPOILER ALERT BELOW.
Okay I'm surprised that Drizzt barely even appears in the book at all, which for a Drizzt novel is unheard of. Seriously its mostly about Cattie, Bruenor, and Regis and thier new lives which actually makes them way more interesting characters as they have to deal with these two competing lives, thier first one and the second.
Also for a book about the Sundering it seemed to play a very small part of the novel as most of the story takes place before the Sundering, the Sundering is almost an after thought in this novel, which was the one thing that I was disappointed about, as I was hoping for greater, details on Sundering.
The things we gleaned are mostly what we already know. Its affecting the planes including the Shadowfell, dead gods are stirring, Netheril is interested in these new Chosen, Abier and Toril are divorcing, and the weave is back. That seems to be it in regards to the Sundering.
Still great novel and the characters seem to have greater depth and one of Drizzts few jobs in the story is his monologues which seem to have interesting social commentary.
And for those who hate emo I didn't see any.
I really loved the Coven of Avelyere, it shows not everyone in Shade is a pure villian.
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SirUrza
Master of Realmslore
USA
1283 Posts |
Posted - 05 Aug 2013 : 21:15:07
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I got mine today from Bob's esigning..
I was right, I was right, I was right! :)
Side note, the book really needed a timeline inside it, not a map. :) |
"Evil prevails when good men fail to act."
The original and unapologetic Arilyn, Aribeth, Seoni Fanboy. |
Edited by - SirUrza on 05 Aug 2013 21:15:51 |
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Seravin
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1288 Posts |
Posted - 05 Aug 2013 : 22:13:12
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| Just got mine as well! Hope it is as good as you guys say it is! I love the map even if it is the 4e map rather than the 5e map, I think that will come! |
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Drizztsmanchild
Learned Scribe
USA
228 Posts |
Posted - 05 Aug 2013 : 22:39:32
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| Right about what SirUrza? I dont mind spoilers. My ebook comes tonight. So I will still read it |
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SirUrza
Master of Realmslore
USA
1283 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 00:16:33
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Originally posted by Drizztsmanchild
Right about what SirUrza? I dont mind spoilers. My ebook comes tonight. So I will still read it
I'd rather not spoil it. :) |
"Evil prevails when good men fail to act."
The original and unapologetic Arilyn, Aribeth, Seoni Fanboy. |
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
3805 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 00:39:27
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Write it in Beige and put a spoiler warning, then  |
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. |
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Drizztsmanchild
Learned Scribe
USA
228 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 03:43:25
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Originally posted by SirUrza
quote:
Originally posted by Drizztsmanchild
Right about what SirUrza? I dont mind spoilers. My ebook comes tonight. So I will still read it
I'd rather not spoil it. :)
Fair enough. :-) |
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SirUrza
Master of Realmslore
USA
1283 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 04:05:46
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Fine fine, but I'm going to make you work for it.
Do a search for "bitter sweet" and you might find out what I was right about. Granted I don't know how right I was, but we'll find out soon enough. |
"Evil prevails when good men fail to act."
The original and unapologetic Arilyn, Aribeth, Seoni Fanboy. |
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Drizztsmanchild
Learned Scribe
USA
228 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 04:13:22
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Originally posted by SirUrza
Fine fine, but I'm going to make you work for it.
Do a search for "bitter sweet" and you might find out what I was right about. Granted I don't know how right I was, but we'll find out soon enough.
Here on the site or internet? |
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Euranna
Learned Scribe
USA
219 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 04:17:18
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Originally posted by Elsenrail
I have just received th book as well. There is a map o faerun, but it's clearly 4e Faerun. Hmm...
Halruaa was not in 4e I thought?
My copy from the esigning arrived today. I read through the prologue (LOL, I was told to..hehe). I do not have a lot of free time this week, and that is killing me. |
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SirUrza
Master of Realmslore
USA
1283 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 04:19:12
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Originally posted by Drizztsmanchild
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Originally posted by SirUrza
Fine fine, but I'm going to make you work for it.
Do a search for "bitter sweet" and you might find out what I was right about. Granted I don't know how right I was, but we'll find out soon enough.
Here on the site or internet?
Hehe, I should make you use google to search for it. I'm sure google indexed it by now, but you can search here. It's a post I created a year ago. ;) |
"Evil prevails when good men fail to act."
The original and unapologetic Arilyn, Aribeth, Seoni Fanboy. |
Edited by - SirUrza on 06 Aug 2013 04:32:46 |
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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
1287 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 04:42:58
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NO MIDNIGHT RELEASE HERE!!!!
Grrr.
Have to wait until Tomorrow.
I am just going to go read some Grand History because I can't take it!!!!!
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A wizard is Never late Frodo Baggins. Nor is he Early. A wizard arrives precisely when he means to... |
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Drizztsmanchild
Learned Scribe
USA
228 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 09:37:33
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Ok. Just finished reading it. Excellent. Though there is something at the end...or someone I dont fully trust is who they say they are.
Minor spoiler here. Already mentioned above I think. The Sundering is just beginning. I would probably look at the other books for more in depth knowledge of it. |
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charger_ss24
Learned Scribe
USA
108 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 15:59:32
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Minor spoiler here. Already mentioned above I think. The Sundering is just beginning. I would probably look at the other books for more in depth knowledge of it.
This was always my assumption. The Companions is just the beginning and we'll learn more as future books come out. I think the last book of the series, The Herald we'll see the results of the events that builds up over the first six books.
Going out here in a little bit to buy my copy of The Companions. 
Mod edit: Fixed the coding; there was a stray open italics tag. |
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Euranna
Learned Scribe
USA
219 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 19:03:08
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| I started reading the book yesterday and am fighting the urge to peak at the back. :) But I love it so far and the idea of what is going on and why makes me both laugh and have "the feels". My poor husband had to take the book from me last night so I would sleep. And I kept yelling things out to him that made me laugh, giddy, or touched. :D |
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charger_ss24
Learned Scribe
USA
108 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 20:50:45
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Potential Spoiler....
I'm now just over 80 pages into the book and now the ending to The Last Threshold is beginning to make sense to me. Still have a ways to go to confirm my suspicion, but I have the next two days off. |
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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 21:12:40
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| I got my copy this morning; the map on the inside cover is really really nice. Better than anything I've seen in the Realms novels to date. |
"...the will is everything. The will to act."--Ra's Al Ghul
"Suffering builds character."--Talia Al Ghul |
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Lilianviaten
Senior Scribe
489 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2013 : 22:10:04
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| Somebody PLEASE PM me, and tell me who the villain is. I hear that there's a mysterious villain who appears near the end, and the suspense is killing me!!! I won't be able to get the book until Saturday, at the earliest. Is it Lolth? Or maybe some vengeful Netherese? Or vengeful Thayans? |
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Madpig
Learned Scribe
Finland
148 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2013 : 06:15:06
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I must confes that RAS was growing to be stale for me, but WOW! Thats what i felt when i read the book (finished it in one sitting). There are many times when people state that this or that novel is the best of some writer. This time i think it is actually the case. In my mind only Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver and Halflings Gem are comparable to this fantastic book. Story was so well done and very enjoyable indeed.
One thing was it was written really differently compared to other of RAS books. It actually felt like somebody elses writing (not in a bad way). Battlescenes were typical RAS, but there was not so many battlescenes than there has been in the past. Majority of book was focused on plots. (There was plenty of them to be followed). Im really much looking forward for the next RAS book! |
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Bakra
Senior Scribe
628 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2013 : 14:32:02
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I bought the ebook version, what map?
The best scene for me so far, a certain baby gets a full view of his food source which occurred at the same moment my newborn decided it was time to eat. 
The misses had no idea why I was laughing so hard. |
I hope Candlekeep continues to be the friendly forum of fellow Realms-lovers that it has always been, as we all go through this together. If you don’t want to move to the “new” Realms, that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with either you or the “old” Realms. Goodness knows Candlekeep, and the hearts of its scribes, are both big enough to accommodate both. If we want them to be.
(Strikes dramatic pose, raises sword to gleam in the sunset, and hopes breeches won’t fall down.)
Enough for now. The Realms lives! I have spoken! Ale and light wines half price, served by a smiling Storm Silverhand fetchingly clad in thigh-high boots and naught else! Ahem . .
So saith Ed. <snip>
love to all,
THO
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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
1287 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2013 : 18:45:56
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Originally posted by Entromancer
I got my copy this morning; the map on the inside cover is really really nice. Better than anything I've seen in the Realms novels to date.
That map is better than any 4e map they have released to date. And I am not taking a dig. I am serious.
Well not including Neverwinter.
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A wizard is Never late Frodo Baggins. Nor is he Early. A wizard arrives precisely when he means to... |
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Madpig
Learned Scribe
Finland
148 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2013 : 18:48:18
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| I feel rather cheated cause Kindle edition does NOT have said map. |
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