One set of books I have enjoyed over the years are the Drizzt novels by R.A. Salvatore. He is good at description of battles but he also brings into it a psychological aspect as he delves into the minds of his characters, particularly Drizzt. I highly recommend the read there are a lot of books though as he has been writing them for twenty years and has published one every year or so. here is a guide
The Dark Elf Trilogy Homeland, Exile and Sojourn are the story of Drizzt early life in his world of the dark elves. They are probably the best of all he has written, though they are the second trilogy he wrote. He wrote these partly to explain Drizzt’s heritage but also to introduce the dark elves that would cause so much trouble in later novels.
The first trilogy The Icewind Dale trilogy includes The Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver and The Halfling’s Gem. This trilogy establishes Drizzt and his companions for many novels to come Bruenor Battlehammer, the king of the Icewind Dale dwarfs and later Mithril Hall, Cattie-Brie, Bruenor’s adopted human daughter, Wulfgar, the barbarian that becomes Bruenor’s adopted son, and Regis, the half-ling thief. These also introduce Drizzt’s nemesis Artemis Entereri and Jaraxle, two characters that later get their own trilogy (See currently reading Road of the Patriarch)
Next comes The Legacy of the Drow series The Legacy, Starless Night, Siege of Darkness, and Passage to Dawn. The Drow come to to the surface and Drizzt and company must stop them.
The fourth series The Paths of Darkness includes The Silent Blade, The Spine of the World, Servant of the Shard and Sea of Swords. The companions, for various reasons detailed in the previous books, make their way in the world alone and must find themselves to be able to come back together as a group. He spun off a series with Artemis and Jaraxle from Servant of the Shard, these don’t include Drizzt and his friends directly. Servant is considered the first in the Sellswords series. The next two are Promis of the Witch-King and Road of the Patriarch.
The last full trilogy was The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy of The Thousand Orcs, The Lone Drow and The Two Swords. A war has come between Mithril Hall and the orcs of the Spine of the World Mountains. It nearly destroys the dwarfs sending the region into darkness.
The next trilogy has begun in the new book The Orc King. This is a continuation of the fall-out from the war just ended.
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