[QuickTidal]

I have been working my way through D&D/Faerûn content either that I've already read and am re-reading, or reading for the first time. No point in clogging up the Reading thread with this nonsense, so here we are.

Oh, and most of the Forgotten Realms stuff is rebranded as just Dungeons and Dragons as "Forgotten Realms" technically stopped being a thing in the mid-2010's when WOTC stopped their publishing wing and farmed out the content to Penguin Random House and Harper Collins Voyager instead.

Stuff I'm reading for the thread:

The LEGEND OF DRIZZT books - I own about half of them in the old MMPB form; and have read up to about Book 13 I think? but that was a while ago so I needed a refresh to go forward so I jumped back to LEGACY (book 7)...Please note that also Penguin are currently re-releasing them as softcover trades with new cover art that matches (solving my biggest issue with them, the MMPB font is TINY and they were excruciating to read that way...the new trade paperbacks are glorious with almost hardcover size font for an old bastard like me) and have released 10 so far. They will be doing all 33 of those in the new covers (3-4 in each release window which seem to come every 2-3 months or so?) and are up to book 10 so far, and then after the Penguin 33, then Harper Voyager (who have the rights to the last 6) will be re-releasing those ones too in the same cover style. Salvatore is jazzed that all 39 Drizzt books will be in one cover style and format finally (as a well known cover snob, I agree). I realize that these are not high fantasy or particularly complex, but they are like warm fantasy/ D&D hugs to me.

BRIMSTONE ANGELS (Erin M. Evans) - I have all of these. Most of them are in and around Waterdeep and Neverwinter. And the 9 hells of course. They are about Tieflings and Cambions after all.

THE FALLBACKS (Jayleigh Johnson) - These are recent D&D books with a new team of adventurers, I own the first one (BOUND FOR RUIN), and there is a second on the way (DEALING WITH DRAGONS). I don't expect them to be groundbreaking, but they should be fun little romps. They seem to be sort of Critical-Role-ish in tone. Not sure where they take place yet.

D&D Movie tie-in for DRUID'S CALL....love the character in the movie and want to know more about her.

RAVENLOFT has also been revived. Deliah S. Dawson has penned a new novel in the setting called HEIR OF STRAHD, so that's on my list too.


Forthcoming also: R.A. Salvatore has penned a new novel coming out later in the year that seems to focus on Drizzt's

Spoiler

daughter Breezy,

and new companions of the Hall, so I'm very curious to see where that goes and I really can't wait for it. It's called THE FINEST EDGE OF TWILIGHT.


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Latest finished:

BRIMSTONE ANGELS: LESSER EVILS by Erin M. Evans

Great book, and still sort of table setting for the overall story of Farideh and her sister Havilar...but it's nice to have books that focus somewhat in the Hells and the politicking that goes on there. I love the side character choices here, a lost prince of Cormyr, a priest of Selûne who also happens to be a Harper, a dissident Cambion, an apprentice Harper who is almost a paladin, and a gay Dragonborn father figure...there is lots of adventure in this, but most of it focuses down on relationships and the young Tiefling leads learning how to be in the world that mistrusts them while also contending with being essentially teenagers with an overbearing father figure. The 3rd book is the Sundering tie-in, so I expect that to be a little off-kilter for the series as it's doing some maxi-series lifting, but after that we should get back to this stuff.


Reading: Legend of Drizzt Book 7 THE LEGACY...man I love this one. Dinin is such an earnest character trying to navigate a post-Do'urden House fall from grace in Menzoberranzan...then his mad sister comes in and fucks him completely over...and the interactions between Drizzt and the companions gets deeper than just surface shit as we begin to see Wulfgar's jealousy and misogyny rear its head, and Drizzt's moral compass seeing what a problem that is. And Regis' strange behaviour being suspect from the get-go to Drizzt and no one else is another part of this I ike...he knows this isn't his friend as he was, but can't sort out what's going on up front. Knowing the outcome as this is a re-read makes the re-read funnier every time he drops into battle mode and Regis is behind him or there with him he's like "WTF?!"