Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt

By R. A. Salvatore

The epic tale of everyone’s favorite dark elf reaches new heights when Drizzt and his companions set out to reclaim a lost dwarven stronghold—the fifth chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-inspired fantasy series.

Drizzt Do'Urden still struggles with his own inner voices, voices that call him back to the pitless depths of the Underdark. But louder still are the voices of his newfound friends Bruenor, Wulfgar, and Regis—and the call of a dream that, at long last, Bruenor has decided to fulfill.

Long ago, Bruenor and his people were driven from their home in Mithral Hall by a shadow dragon of the Underdark. Now, Bruenor is determined to reclaim his homeland and his rightful seat as its king. Aided by the combined might of his friends, Bruenor sets out on a treacherous quest for Mithral Hall, finding obstacles at every turn. But despite the terrors of the Trollmoors and the racism aimed at Drizzt, the group continues to fight—together.

Streams of Silver is the second book in the Icewind Dale Trilogy and the fifth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Jun 23, 2009
• ISBN: 9780786954056

R. A. Salvatore

Over three decades ago, R. A. Salvatore created the character of Drizzt Do’Urden, the dark elf who has withstood the test of time to stand today as an icon in the fantasy genre. With his work in the Forgotten Realms, the Crimson Shadow, the DemonWars Saga, and other series, Salvatore has sold more than thirty million books worldwide and has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list more than two dozen times. He considers writing to be his personal journey, but still, he’s quite pleased that so many are walking the road beside him! R.A. lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Diane, and their two dogs, Dexter and Pikel. He still plays softball for his team, Clan Battlehammer, and enjoys his weekly DemonWars: Reformation RPG and Dungeons & Dragons 5e games. 

Reviews for Streams of Silver

[revslick_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Solid 5 for action and pacing + better character development however -2 for over heroic stamina overcoming way too many insurmountable obstacles.

[booksfordinner · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Not the biggest Bruenor fan in the world, but I am reading these books to get to the goods in later books. Standard hack and slash fare.

[karlstar_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Follow on to The Crystal Shard, and nearly as good as the first book. The heroes join Bruenor to find the ancient homeland of the Battlehammer clan. This one even features a bit of a cliff-hanger ending. As usual, a great job turning AD&D concepts into a novel, and expanding the worlds of dwarves and dark elves.

[reading_fox · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Continuing along in the saga. This is the 2nd book published but as there is (now) a prequel trilogy, it's the 5th chronologically. It picks up where the last left off Drizzt and co, have finally been persueded to accomany the dwarf to his old ancestral home that they got kicked out of a while (200 years or so) back. Of course they have to find it first. The halfling wasn't going to come - but he suddenly sees an unwelcome face and changes his mind. Not telling his friends this isn't the wiset idea he's ever had.As all the characters are complete stereotypes from the ADnD system there's no need to bother with there names, they're simple the elf, the dwarf the halfling, the barbarian and the woman. There's a bit more dialogue than last time out - rather than they met with the wizard who gave them directtions, we do actually get to experience the meeting of the wizard. Maybe the DM's had more time to practise his* NPC lines. However the author has still decided to enliven our token women with a trully horrendous accent. This is even worse for being reproduced as speach rather than just described now and again. Charisma = 6Again there is little characterisation - but more than the inital book - and lots of action. The heros vastly outpower their enemies in quite ridiculous fashion. Its quite weird because much of it does have a proper paper RPG feel to it - you can imagine the made svaing throw rolls etc - but you know that the battles they were facing would have been impossible for paper RPG characters to win, unles they're quite stupidly high level in which case they wouldn't be on these fairly trivial quests. Feels like there's a continuity issue with Drizzit's scimitar too. In the first book it was all powerful, here it isn't mentioned until right at the end. Having read on into book3 I know this does get explained, but it did annoy me throughout this book. The ending is particularly annoying too - one of the reasons for carrying straight through to book 3 was to confirm that the author had been as annoying as it seemed. And yes he had. As a duology books 2 and 3 probably work better together. Reading just book 2 on its own would be confusing.* well it could be a her. But the author is male, and really how many female DMs are there?

[capiam1234 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fast paced & fun likeable characters, what's not to like?

[wiszard · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Another excellent book from R. A. Salvatore. A must read for those fans of Dungeons and Dragons. The ability of Wulfgar, Drizzt and Bruenor to survive and recover from all they experience is on the unrealistic side. The other drawback is that I really saw a huge similiarty to the Tolkien scene in LOTR:FOTR in the mines of the Dwarves. However, the other adventures portrayed by Salvatore make this book quite enjoyable.

[rbtwinky · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This was my second time reading Streams of Silver. I remember it being much more enjoyable than I found it this time. The path to Mithril Hall was excruciating this time around. Oh no, they’re stuck in the swamp. Gee darn. I knew that they were going to find Mithril Hall. I knew that they were (all) going to make it out alive. The suspense just wasn’t there. I think this book lacked the character development that makes a book like this enjoyable when one knows the plot already. It was a great story, but not really a stand-out in the read-again category. Then again, maybe this book was so good that I didn’t forget the plot, reducing it’s reread quality.

[jerame2999 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It's a good book. I just think I'm done with fantasy novels for now. Good thing I have a lot of them.