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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Was trickier to find than I thought because of the unorthodox title. But here it is.

It's a 35 page thread with others chiming in with their thoughts as the original author makes his way through the list, and some summing up on pages 33 & 34. And technically still ongoing as new books slowly trickle out, though most of it was finished in 2020.

Unfortunately it looks like the author never fully finished his wrap-up either. He said he was gonna do favourite series, fav individual books, fav authors, and misc comments, but only ended up doing the first two of those as far as I could see.

Personally I mostly read through the reviews of Evans' books back when I first saw the thread, and my vague recollection was that he/others liked them and mentioned also liking Cunningham, but I could be misremembering.

Happy to provide my own review of Evans' work if interested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you!

I'm in a rare slump of not knowing what to read. I've been meaning to dig in to forgotten realms for a while, and wanted to start out with Drizt, but heard mixed things.

This is wonderful, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No worries! If you didn't already see it, I wrote a fairly lengthy review of the Evans novels in response to another user a few comments down in this thread.

Regarding Drizzt, my understanding is that "mixed things" is basically right. Some of the books are very well-liked, and others are not so much. My own personal experience is only that I've tried listening to the audiobook of The Companions, the Drizzt novel which is the first of The Sundering series. But I've ended up bouncing off of it twice, just not really caring about the characters.