Let's continue our journey through the
Underdark with the second part of the Legend of Drizzt series, Exile.
This is the book that inspired Chris Perkins while he was writing Out
of the Abyss, this season's large DnD campaign. In the foreword, he
writes that the book reminds him of Alice in Wonderland. I, too,
thought of Alice's adventures while reading Exile, but the read
hardly inspired me. Frankly, I found this book quite dull.
My main problem with the story is that
Drizzt wanders around the Underdark and things just happen to him.
He's hunted by the drow (and a zombie version of his father) and
while that may be incentive enough for anyone to move on, it just
doesn't make for an interesting novel story. Salvatore throws in lots
of encounters, and like Alice in Wonderland, each encounter seems to
exist in a vacuum.
