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The book description says this book is for 9- to 12-year-olds, but the story and difficulty seem about right for a 7- or 8-year-old. A girl in 7th grade is way above it.

That said, for younger kids this story of good friends Rachel and Kirsty and their adventures in Fairyland is sweet and enjoyable. The `tweens help Holly the Christmas Fairy recover Santa's sleigh and reindeer, which have been stolen by the greedy Jack Frost and his goblin henchmen. The girls travel to the mall to confront the villain, who is impersonating Santa, and then to Jack's ice castle home. It all ends happily ever after, with a ride with Santa in his sleigh and presents all around.

Every page is illustrated with expressive line drawings.

This title, and the whole Rainbow Magic Fairy series, would make a nice introduction to chapter books for fairy-loving girls.

My 6 year old daughter got started on the Rainbow Magic Fairy books about a year ago and has been obsessed every since. These books are perfect for readers that are ready for chapter books. If you are new to these books, you should also check out the Rainbow Faires and the Weather Faires - they are my daughter's favorites!

9 yr old boy LOVED it, recommended to friend for whom mom has a hard time finding books - they loved it!

What tremendous fun this is! I read the first 100 pages aloud to my mother after she had surgery. Then the book got so compelling and engaging that I had to race through silently and leave poor Mom to fend for herself. (I gave her a copy of her own for Mother's Day.) This novel is aimed at a middle reader audience, although great children's lit is always enjoyable to adults. At nearly 500 pages, it's a hefty doorstopper for that market, though a certain boy wizard has already repeatedly blown through our expectations about desirable book lengths for middle readers.

The story centers around four gifted children who respond to an ad promising "special opportunities" for select applicants. The application process is fun in and of itself (with riddles the reader can solve right alongside the characters), and then the adventure begins as these unlikely kids set out to save the world. One thing I liked about the story is that three of the four are unheralded poster children for the schoolage afflictions du jour: ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder), and PAD (Pervasive Anxiety Disorder). Part of the fun of the novel is watching these kids realize that their quirks and disabilities are actually assets. Another wonderful aspect of the story is their teamwork and cooperation; each child contributes something unique and essential to the mission. The novel is clever, funny, and warm-hearted. I have just checked the sequel out of the library (after waiting for nearly three weeks, as every middle school kid in Cincinnati had signed up first).

My best friend recomended this book to me. It is a little slow at the beginning pretty good in the middle and COMPLETELY fantastic at the climax and end. I would definatly recomend it. My favorite character is Constance Contraire. Also the illustrations rock. I can't wait to read the next one!!!!!!

I've been teaching elementary school for over 15 years now, and of all the children's books I have read absolutely none of them had as terrific opening and closing chapters as this book. Luckily, the middle chapters were equally as engaging! The Mysterious Benedict Society easily drew me in as the opening chapter introduced Reynard Muldoon, full-time orphan, genius, and social outcast. We follow Muldoon as he embarks on a quest to discover a 'great opportunity' which will enable him to 'achieve great things.' The story is very clever, and there are many puzzles and mysteries for the heroes and readers alike to discover and/or unravel as the book progresses.

A wonderful read!

I was pleasantly surprised by what this book has to offer! Wonderful characters and situations that have left me, my daughter of 6 and my son of 9 completely enthralled. You won't be disappointed, you will be on the edge of seat!

It took me forever to read this book. I kept reading the book to see how it ended and to my horror it ended terribly. I wouldn't recommend this book although I haven't given up on the author yet.

I absolutely love this book. It was a quick read, it was interesting, and it was fun! Maguire left it open-ended, and it enables you to imagine your own result, or to hope for a second book! I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a good twisted fairy tale!

I had high hopes for this book, looking so forward to reading it. It was hard to keep going when I picked it up. I just found it on the boring side, not much in the way of material that kept me thinking 'what will happen next'? I did push on through to the end and that was pretty much unsatisfying as well. What a shame...was a waste of my time and could be a waste of your time as well.

I have very mixed feelings about this book. The story of the skibereen is delightful. I wish I had seen more about the various colonies and even leaned what happens to Pepper and What-The-Dickens after the book ends (I think that's where a good story would have really gotten going). But the whole framing story rubbed me the wrong way. First off, the ultra-religious homeschooling stereotype is annoying, and I think largely unnecessary. I also felt the frame alluding to larger twists than it provided. I really expected more of this book after reading Maguire's other novels.

I really enjoyed this book. A really fun fairy tale that grown-ups can get into. This would also be a great choice for a bedtime story to read aloud to kids, maybe a chapter at a time.

I must agree with what a lot of the other people have said about this book. The author victimizes the main character way too much, makes Regal way too evil. They make everything go wrong for him, I seriously think it would've been a happier book if the main character died. *SPOILERS AHEAD* Then at least his heart wouldn't have been broken. The kings and princes demand too much from him, the characters become suddenly stupid after the first book. In the 3rd especially everyone is stupid, everyone is willing to believe the propaganda, even the stupidest lies. Fitz himself turns into a blundering idiot who falls into traps too often. *SPOILERS OVER* I already got the first book of another of her series (I got it before reading the 3rd book) but I am wary to read it because I don't wish to be so disappointed by later books in the series. IF YOU LIKE A TRAGEDY THIS BOOK IS PERFECT FOR YOU.

If the Farseer trilogy had any flaws up to this point, they are certainly gone now. This is the absolutely stunning end to a trilogy where the fantasy and emotion reach unbelievable and stunning heights of perfection.

I do not read a lot of high fantasy, but it's not common to see something that can blend such purely human emotion and such flights of the imagination into such a delicious blend as this.

Hobb writes simply, but intensely, with just the right amount of description to help carry emotion and excitement that can easily stand on their own without Hobb's skilled pen.

One of the best trilogies I have ever read.

Why oh why! I had people tell me this book was awful, but I thought well if it's worse then the first 2 then it will still be good because I loved the first 2 books. If you have read the first 2... stop there and imagine your own ending for Fitz because this one sucks!

If you would have told me when I finished book 2 that I would not read the Tawny Man series because Assassin's Quest was "that bad" I would have told you you were crazy.

If she would re-write this book I would buy it. Seriously, you think the book will get better and it keeps getting worse right up until the ending. I have read fantasy series where 1 book in the series might be "bad" but this is the first one that was so ludicrous that it ruined the whole series for me.

I would describe this book as an adventure. I've read five of Robin Hobb's books so far and this one had the most action. By that I mean fighting, magic, and "traveling" on the part of the characters. Them moving from one location to another is also good because it keeps the reader interested. A lot of the plot unfolds and by the end of the book all the questions are answered -- which is good because the author has a habit of creating an aura of mystery in her books.

The only problem I had with this book was that this was the first encounter I had of the author "torturing" her protagonists. There was a part where Fitz is told his baby might be taken away from him by the Queen, and that made me a bit upset. I learned then that a lot of Robin's character's are made a little stupid and weak-spined, and not in control of their fates. I'd say that's the main flaw of her books. If you can get past that, this trilogy is an amazing read.

Blegh, it's been 10 minutes since I finished the Farseer Trilogy with this novel's conclusion. Boy, what a ride it's been. It's the feeling you get after a long journey returning home.. but you're changed: like Frodo from Lord of the Rings. I feel this numbing hole now that it's over. But this book has faults nonetheless. Other reviewers have pointedly complained about the pacing/length of this novel as well as its ending. I agree with them.

This novel is by no means 'boring' it just feels very sluggish in the middle during the journey part of reaching Verity. And it departs from the 1st two books a lot: gone are so many characters we loved, gone are the focus of court intrigue in the face of the Red Ship Raider's Forging. Instead we are left with torturing poor Fitz even more so that by the end of it I could not help wiping stubborn tears (and I rarely cry lol so you can tell this stuff is bleak).

My gripe with the ending as a whole is that it is too realistic. This not hollywood by any means. All that pain and suffering should mean there's a nice reward in exchange...... right? Also, the Red Ship Raiders and Elderlings story line is swiftly concluded within a chapter almost. The whole book was the about the process not the result.

It's been 2 weeks to the day since I was searching here on Amazon reading reviews for a good fantasy series while I waited for George RR Martin.. Farseer Trilogy has been amazing. I've lost several hours of sleep reading late into the night hoping against hope for witnessing Fitz get his due. *SPOILER*------------ Sitting in a cottage in Buck with Nighteyes and his bastard son; scribing diligently in front of a warm fire away from court plotting and judgemental people is 95% of the life he always wanted minus the love of his life who left him for his closest friend instead.

Wow. I read this book and LOVED it. It starts out kind of slow, but gets a lot better. Once it does get better it's like high-speed drama without being tacky. I couldn't put it down. I mean how could anyone when Tally has a choice--betray your best friend, Shay and turn supermodel gorgeous, don't betray her and stay ugly for life--, Shay has a dream--to escape the pretty-making operation-- and the whole world has an awful secret. It deals with a dystopia that is so terrifying, mixed up with environmental messages and with startling specks of romance and friendship. Not to mention the detail (and the imagination) of the ugly/pretty/smoke world. David is so cool. I like sci-fi but this book made me like it 1,000 times more. I cannot wait to read Pretties (Uglies Trilogy, Book 2)!!!

Scott Westerfeld's Uglies presents an intriguing view of a futuristic society; a society filled with such inventive devices as hoverboards, toothbrush pills, and interface rings. In this society, beauty is thought to be of the highest value, and behavior is carefully controlled. At the age of sixteen, residents of this city undergo an operation that transforms them from an "ugly" into a new "pretty." Children are taught to believe that there is only one type of beauty--the kind that is decided on and regulated by the government. Thus, they all look forward to the day when they too can turn pretty and live a carefree life of frivolity.
Tally Youngblood is just such an ugly. She is approaching her sixteenth birthday, and she can't wait. Her best friend Peris has already turned pretty, and she is left alone as she awaits the day she will turn sixteen. Enter Shay, another Ugly approaching the fateful sixteenth birthday. Shay is a somewhat rebellious youth, who doesn't share the same views as Tally about the supposed joys of becoming pretty. As they become friends, Shay begins to express her opinions about the city and the operation. Shay feels that the operation is wrong; that people shouldn't be forced to all look the same. She believes that people should be appreciated for who they are. Tally can't quite comprehend Shay's point of view, but she doesn't think much about it until Shay declares her intention to run away to the Smoke, a small settlement outside of the cities where people choose to stay "ugly" rather than conform to the "ideal" standards of the city. Shay invites Tally to join her, but Tally is unable to give up her life-long wish of becoming pretty, and chooses to stay. However, on her sixteenth birthday, Tally is taken to Special Circumstances, an intimidating governmental force designed to keep the cities under control. Special Circumstances informs Tally that unless she follows Shay to the Smoke and reveals its location, she will be forced to remain ugly all her life. Although Tally feels terrible about the idea of betraying her friend, in the end she agrees to find the Smoke. What follows for Tally is a daring journey, new friends, a new way of life which presents an alternate way of thinking, a disturbing discovery about the true nature of the operation, and a life-altering decision.
I gave this book four stars out of five because I found it to be intriguing and thought-provoking, although it can't quite compare to the greatness of other dystopic novels such as The Giver, 1984, and Anthem. However, it was a very enjoyable read. I found it an interesting twist to have the concept of beauty being the main force behind the success of the society. I think the message this book can send to readers is the danger of placing too much importance on physical appearance, and the value of having a society where everyone is unique. What I really liked about this book was the way that Tally was able to grow and change throughout the novel. In the beginning, I actually found her a bit annoying--she was so focused on how great it was going to be to be "pretty" that she couldn't see the sense in what Shay was telling her. I liked Shay's character better at the start of the book, but as Tally grew and came to understand what it really meant to be "pretty," and began to see that beauty could be found even in imperfect features, my respect for her grew. In the end, she was really able to prove herself and show that she was willing to fight and to sacrifice for what she believed to be right, making her a character that I and other young adult readers can truly admire. I think this is a great novel for young adults. It was able to present intriguing ethical issues in a suspenseful plot. It kept me interested, and was very well written. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone.

However, this was a fabulous book. It really makes you want to keep reading. It is full of action and suspense and has a very significant message! I tell everyone I see to read it whether they love sci-fi or not!

I had to be assigned this book for my language arts class. it was kind of boring and it just wasn't really interesting for me. I sometimes enjoy science fiction and stories about worlds different from ours (like the giver by lois lowry) but this was boring. Also my friend says the only reason why scott westerfeld wrote this book is because he was ugly and he was jealous of pretty people. Ok, it may have been mildly interesting in the beginning but then things just started to go downhill. This is just not the book for me. A waste of my 8 bucks. I am definatly not reading any of the sequels. Everyone knows sequels are rarely better than the orinal, first book. And if the original first book wasn't very good in the first place, the sequel will NEVER be any better.

I've looked at this book on the shelf for a long time and finally decided to buy it. This was not one of my favorites nor would I read it a second time. However, it was a page turner and I had serious trouble putting it down. It's the usual theme, what's right and wrong. Tally is a Uglie and she is forced through the course of the book to decide to go with the flow (become a Prettie) or take another path and become a Smokie. The book is full of the meanings of self discovery and the paths we choose. It takes place in a future very advanced, hoverboards, hovercars, operations to completly change you and heal to perfection within a weeks time, turning people into the ideal citizen, tracking your every movement down to the number of breaths you take. It's a very good book. I cannot wait to read the rest in this series. However, I won't keep on my bookshelf for a second reading.

My daughter loves all of the fairy books by Daisy Meadows. Thanks for such a great series of books.

In this story the two girls help Bella find her magical bunny! It is a great story that I really enjoyed reading.

These books were so good, it only took me 4 days to read them. I couldn't put the book down once I started.

These books are freakin' amazing. R.A. Salvator describes the battle scenes in such detail. If you read any action or scifi books or play WoW or D&D you will like this book. Even if you don't do those things you will still like this book :]

Being over 17, I don't think I'm the target audience for this series. The concept of a protaganist who inexplicably ends up with a completely different set of values from the society that raised him distances me.

Good story though, cheap easy reading on the lue.

Great stories, great characters, although only the main character is sketched out completely. Good read.

great gift for yourself or some one else. Its the beginning of the tail for Drizzt an important part of the Forgottens Realms world and R.A Salvatore himself.

Connor, Risa and Lev come from different places and sittuations, but they're all united when it comes to being Unwinds. This book takes you to a future where life becomes less valuable and new rules are stated, and these three kids more grow, and try to survive, through a society that has marked them for life (or atleast until they're 18).

Neal Shusterman's book has become one fo my favorites, I really didn't want it to end, I cared too much about the characters. This is a story that will be hard to forget and I would highly recommend it to anyone.

I read this book because it was recommended to me by Amazon after I bought a different book. After reading the summary provided I thought it seemed interesting and picked it up from the library. The book begins with a teenage boy, Connor, discovering his parents have signed the papers to have him unwound. This new concept of unwinding is that a person's entire body is harvested and the parts given to those that need them. The law states that the entire body must be used, no parts thrown away. The reader is thrust into a shocking future world where the outcome of a war over a single issue left no winners. The solution to the war was not meant to be a solution, but in the end, wanting the war to be over, the people embraced unwinding and soon the demand grew until it was as if there was never a time before unwinding. Neal Shusterman keeps the reader spellbound with every page using the views of different characters to show the effects of this new world. It does not seem like a young adult book even though the characters are teenagers. It draws the reader in and does not let go. I would recommend this book for high schoolers, probably juniors and seniors. The social problems confronted in the book and the horrific idea of unwinding are for a more mature young adult reader. There is a heart-wrenching scene in which unwinding is described by someone going through the process. It is a chilling but captivating book that will keep the mind racing long after it is finished.

This book is a great story of the future where there is less doctors and more surgeons. Why? Unwinding. After the Heartland War, where there was a disagreement about abortion, they proposed unwinding: when a teen comes to a certain age, they can be "unwound" or salvaged for body parts. A couple of decades later comes Connor, a disruptive boy who is being unwound, and he goes AWOL, or escapes. By fate or luck, he meets Risa, who is being unwound to cut orphanage costs, and Lev, a tithe being unwound for religion. They go on a journey and meet strange, bullying, and suprising characters, discover shocking facts about the secrets behind unwinding and tithing, and hidden safe-havens in which they are hiding as they try to live to 18yrs old to escape their doom.

Seriously, wow.

All too often, YA books are short, with watered down plots and weak, uninteresting characters. This isn't. It's YA, but highly intelligent, well written, with a shocking premise and gripping plot. It pulled me in from the first sentence and still hasn't let go.

The idea of banning abortion and instead retroactively getting rid of unwanted teenagers by using them as body donors may seem far-fetched, but the explanations given make sense. More than that, once you're told about the civil war between Pro-Life and Pro-Choice activists and how the idea of Unwinding came about, it becomes all-too believable. How these kids deal with the fact that they're slated for Unwinding is likewise realistic and haunting.

Beyond having a strong plot and realistic characters, the author's writing style is flawless. I was halfway through the book before I realized that it's written in present tense--a rare, risky choice, but one that paid off. He foreshadows excellently, and almost everything has a purpose. Details that you might think are mentioned only to give shape and character to the world actually play a part in the story, in fact are vital components.

I've found myself a new favorite author in Neal Shusterman.

Imagine life in the future. The Second Civil War, also known as "The Heartland War" has been fought and eventually resolved by certain constitutional amendments known as "The Bill of Life." So while human life may not be touched from conception until the age of thirteen, a child may be retroactively aborted between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. This process, known as "unwinding" doesn't technically end life, but separates all the body parts to be used for medical transplants. In this futuristic society, unwinding alters the meaning of life.

Unwinding is the fate set for three teens that meet by chance. Connor has always been a troublemaker, and his parents have finally had enough. Risa is a ward of the state, and budget cuts have forced Risa into this situation. Lev is the only one of the three who doesn't see unwinding as a terrible thing; rather, as a tithe, he accepts that being unwound is his purpose in life. In a deadly car crash, these teens escape the fate that awaits them at harvest camps and flee for their lives (although Lev is more of a kidnappee). In this incredible and thought-provoking novel, Neal Shusterman questions what it means to be human and the value of life.

Unwind may see like just a unique action novel, but it is so much more. The desperation, danger, and running-for-your-life sequences may thrill the action lover, but the story is more profound than that. It was actually quite difficult for me to read this novel because of the horrible atrocity called unwinding. Half the time, I couldn't even believe how inhuman some of the characters were to commit these morally wrong acts. What relieved me, though, was that for every bad thing, there was something good; the random acts of kindness strangers performed for the fugitives sometimes brought tears to my eyes. This novel revolves around the controversial topic of the pro-life/pro-choice debate, because it focuses on the sacredness of life. However, Shusterman does not take the topic from a religious or scientific perspective, but bases this book around moral everyone should have: everyone deserves the right to live and not just in the scientific sense that all your body parts are functioning, but living as a whole. All this was channeled into the lives of runaways who were slated to be unwound in this unforgettable story.

I can't really explain how amazing this novel was; you'll just have to read it for yourself to understand. Just know that although most of the novel was pretty depressing, the story ends on a hopeful note. Fans of The Host by Stephenie Meyer, the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld, and Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer will also enjoy this novel.

The set of books were very nice and my daughter loved them. Good value on them.

All I can say is: READ THESE BOOKS - you will not be able to put them down. They capture your heart and mind, and, what a wonderful time you will have reading Lowis Lowry. You dont have to be a child to read these books, I am not a child and I throughly enjoyed these books.

I think Lois Lowry is an amazing writer. My favorite book of all time is The Giver.

This book was an interesting companion to The Giver and Gathering Blue. In answer to the questions about Gabe and Jonas they both survived and arrived together on the sled. Jonas became leader and Gabe is the mischievous eight year old student that mentor is tutoring early in the book as he has not attended his studies enough and instead has concentrated on playing. He is only mentioned for this couple of lines but the age and name mean that it must be referring to the child Jonas rescued.

I remember that my brother bought The Giver for school and he told me it was actually good (which is rare since he doens't like to read) so I decided to read it. I was absolutely emerged with it and keep the name of the author in my mind. One day I saw Gathering Blue and noticed it was by Lois Lowry so I read it without realizing it was a "sequel." I read it and loved it as well and then noticed that the inside flap had The Messenger, so of course I had to read it as well. It was when I finished the last book that I realized it was a trilogy. I loved how she wrote all three books because regardless of having read all three books or not you would not even notice they are related to each other as she writes the books as stand alone pieces. I highly recommned anyone to read these books as they deal with issues that make you think while enjoy a great story.

I've now gotten rid of all my Drizzt books with the exception of the Icewind Dale trilogy. The series actually started going downhill with Legacy with the drastic change in Cattie-Brea and the way she viewed Wulfgar. (I could have tolerated her getting together with Drizzt if it had not been so obviously telegraphed - "Drizzt is now the hero, so we've got to bump off Wulfgar so HE can get the girl". Why couldn't he get his own girl?)

Anyway, though the series always lacked the greatness of the first trilogy (these are larger than life characters - dragging them down to the ground does not suit them), I still kept reading, hoping to get back to the group dynamic that made them so popular in the first place. It never came.

Now, worse, is this latest change to the story dynamic. I don't know if these changes are Salvatore's own idea, or thrust upon him by Wizards of the Coast, but it does not work. The change is - an orc kingdom living in peace with its neighbors while the elves, humans, and dwarves are the cause of most of the strife (referring, of course, to the glimpses of the future).

This is problomatic for two reasons.
1. It has already been established that goblinkin are EVIL. They are not the type of creature you can live peacefully next too. In fact, Sourjorn even took a look at this when Drizzt realized that humans were basically good, while orcs, goblins, knolls, etc were basically evil, by observing the behavior of the young. Orc young were violent and vicious while human young were viewed as innocents.

2. Reading about Obould's conquest and Drizzt's decission to see if this Orc King might bring something better to the orcs and the region in general made me think of Europe's initial response to Hitler's first conquest. "Hey, there's no reason to believe he'll invade anyone else. Let's talk to him." What about punishing Obould for his crimes?

Another problem for me is the lack of direction the series has taken. The Icewind Dale Trilogy had a goal - showing the formation of this unusual group of heroes, finding Mithril Hall, and freeing Reagis from his past. It neatly tied up all loose ends and issues the characters had and went out on a positive note.

The Dark Elf Trilogy showed Drizzt's journey from the Underdark to Icewind Dale. It clearly showed the story of the hero overcoming the circumstances of his birth to find acceptance and something better.

What has the series done since then? It has just meandered along with no goal or objective in sight. There is STILL no visible objective for the characters. The Hunter's Blades Trilogy looked like the objective was going to be the defeat of an Orc army. Wrong. Now what is the goal? Where is the story going? What are the main characters trying to achieve? It does not look like anything except getting along day to day. That just can no longer hold my attention.

I loved this story line. Not enough pages. I have reread it too many times.


...better to start from the beginning. DOnt forget to include the cleric quintet

The New book from Salvatore the Orc King is based on Hunters blade trilogy and starts where Two swords are ending.I was expecting quite a lot from the first book of new series Transitions because the ending of two swords brought an emotional charge and hope of great new series on horizon.Let me explain: The hole story and plot were below Salvatore`s artistic creation.Great plot and story where the best things from Salvatore and nobody could illustrate the world of Forgotten Realms like he did!The book begins with prelude which has to be skipped in order to enjoy the rest of the series because it tells you in advance how the book is going to end,so skip it(wish I had someone to tell me that)!The whole band is here,they are searching for ancient dwarf city and special weapon that could beat the encamped Orcs!I still have much to say but I m not going to do that because it could reveal the plot!Thing that bothers me the most is the ending which is unreal and mellow, but R A Salvatore is and always will be in my opinion the best SF writer!Greetings from Croatia

I believe that this book is the result of many different years in writing and the authors growth and an inflection of his inner beliefs. Having been a long time fan of Mr Salvatore from the early drizzt series and to the demon wars. I'm delightfully content at how his new books are developing. There is a good mixture of both character developement and a new 'battle' that supercedes swordsplay. I see the inner turmoil and constant struggle between what is good and wrong to be pressingly important that reflects our daily lives. The excerpts from drizzt inner thoughts also is a nice touch to essentuiate that point.

At the moment I am re-reading the entire series and am now in the middle of Legacy. While reading Exile I realized what was missing from The Orc King, along with the entire Hunter's Blade Trilogy, and that is the magnificent swordplay of our favorite dark elf. In the first 8 or so books Drizzt was unequalled, save for Artemis Entreri, and could kill pretty much any adversary within seconds. In the last four books his fights go on forever. I mean, his fight with Obould? Are you kidding me? He's fought much tougher monsters than Obould and it didn't take him 9 pages to have a draw. Bob Salvatore is certainly my favorite writer, but he seriously needs to take a look into the past and see why we all love Drizzt in the first place, because we wish that we could fight like him. I hope the next book in the series features that graceful "dance of death" that we read about before.