Maestro: The Legend of Drizzt

R.A. Salvatore

Apr 2016 · The Legend of Drizzt Book 32 · Wizards of the Coast

About this ebook

Newly returned to the demon-infested Underdark, Drizzt Do’Urden faces his most dangerous adventure yet
 
Drizzt is going home, but not to Mithral Hall or to Icewind Dale. He's going to Menzoberranzan, the very place he left as a young and outcast drow. Something terrible—immense—unspeakable, has come to the City of Spiders, leaving death and destruction in its wake.

As the damage of the Darkening, of war, and of a demon-ravaged Underdark sends cracks out across the North, causing irreparable damage, Drizzt and his companions find their lives endangered once more. When the primordial of Gauntlgrym stirs, Catti-brie and Gromph venture to the ruins of the Host Tower of the Arcane in Luskan, seeking the only power that can keep the beast in check.

Meanwhile, Jarlaxle holds the strings for them all, orchestrating a masterpiece of manipulation that brings old enemies together, and tears old friends apart. But even the wily and resourceful Jarlaxle may not realize just how narrow a path he walks. The City of Spiders might already have fallen to the demons and their wicked prince. What's to say the demons will stop there?

Maestro is the second book in the Homecoming trilogy and the thirty-second book in the Legend of Drizzt series.

Ratings and reviews

This is the one book I have found very tiring to read. Unnecessary amount of dialogue between the houses of the drow and it seemed more like childish school ground talk. Drizzt especially annoyed me in this book because he was so easily swayed by the underdark. What happened to the champion who stands firm to his beliefs? Why doesn't he ever ask his goddess for help and clarification?

I found the writing to be juvenile and the plot lines tired. I'm going to reread the book one last time but I don't think I will be changing my mind.

Cattie brie goes from "orcs are filthy beasts who should be exterminated" to "races and genders don't matter" I feel the quality of writing deteriorating with every book.

About the author

R.A. Salvatore was born in Massachusetts in 1959. He is the New York Times–bestselling author of more than forty novels, including the popular Forgotten Realms series, The Legend of Drizzt. His love affair with fantasy, and with literature in general, began during his sophomore year of college when he was given a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings as a Christmas gift. He promptly changed his major from computer science to journalism. He began writing seriously in 1982, penning the manuscript that would become Echoes of the Fourth Magic.

His first published novel was The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988, and his novel The Silent Bladewon the Origins Award. He is still best known as the creator of dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden, one of fantasy’s most beloved characters.