Samuel Peterson’s Reviews > The Legend of Drizzt, Book IV > Status Update

Now Jaka has lost his girl and his pretty face. This sounds like the making of a desperate soul that is easily molded by some fey or fiend. I'm thinking fiend.

This young lord, this BOY, is really nothing more than a spoiled, rotten bastard who has not grown with a proper mother or father who could teach him. All he has is his older sister and an advisor, neither of which he is listening now in his obsessive love-swept mind.

Looks like Wulfgar's old job is about to get wrecked by him along with the owner, who used to think of him as a friend.

"The selfish man might think himself gaining, but in times when that person most needs his friends, they likely will not be there, and in the end, in the legacy of the selfish person leaves behind, he will not be remembered fondly if at all. The selfish person's greed might bring material luxuries, but cannot bring the true joys, the intangible pleasures of love. So it is with the hateful person, the slothful..."

On to the second act of the second book (finally), and I like how we have a summary of the different forms of government that we've encountered in society so far. I'm reminded to how the Dungeon Master's Guide of DnD had provided helpful guidance on different governments you can use in your campaign.

I'm with the sister on this. Running away is the right solution. It may not be the best, but it's better than possible g(r)ape from her suitor and beatings from her father.

If the mother was in the house, she would reprimand her husband for striking their daughter in anger, anger that was not from her but from his fellow peasants making fun of him.

Ugh, this guy! Why are we following this sheltered lordling?! Why can't we follow Drizzt?

That is a plea for help if I ever saw one. Some other planar creature, malevolent most likely, will hear it.

What is with this sudden YA writing of a romantic scene between a dark-haired, quiet boy and the farmer's daughter? The tone shift of this is more humorous than anything. Especially when the last chapter was mostly composed of a bar fight.