{"id":8845,"date":"2013-07-31T02:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T06:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=8845"},"modified":"2013-07-31T02:55:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T06:55:21","slug":"hard-copy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=8845","title":{"rendered":"Hard Copy: The Companions by R.A. Salvatore…an Early Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis latest installment in New York Times<\/i> best-selling autho\"ra<\/a>r R.A. Salvatore’s <\/a>beloved fantasy saga, The Companions<\/i> moves Salvatore’s signature hero Drizzt into a new era of the Forgotten Realms. As Drizzt’s fate hangs in the balance, he reflects on the lives of the trusted allies who stood by his side throughout his early life–the friends now known as the Companions of the Hall. Meanwhile, the first stirrings of the Sundering begin.\u201d*<\/p>\n

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Book 1 of the Sundering Series is by R.A. Salvatore titled THE COMPANIONS.\u00a0 I finished reading an advanced copy.\u00a0 It was some of RA Salvatore\u2019s best writing ever!\u00a0 I am by no means a diehard fan of RA Salvatore.\u00a0 His early works were good, but his Neverwinter Series basically had his main character Drizzt Do\u2019Urden going through a mid-life crisis.\u00a0 THE COMPAINIONS is nothing like that.<\/p>\n

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(SPOILER ALERT<\/span>)<\/p>\n

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The book focuses little on the character of Drizzt.\u00a0 Instead the majority of the book focuses on some of the characters that have died since the events of the Spellplague.\u00a0\u00a0 How they come back fills most of the storyline.\u00a0 The novel has some of the most original storytelling I have ever read. \u00a0It is an amazing story.\u00a0 Little of the book is wasted.\u00a0 Every page is wonderful to read.\u00a0 Each of the characters have their own story to tell.\u00a0 I could not find one storyline to call my favorite.\u00a0 Every character\u2019s story kept me wanting more.\u00a0 Imagine having to start life all over again.\u00a0 You would think it would be easy, but Salvatore writes a story were you truly don\u2019t know how it will end.<\/p>\n

By\u00a0the end of the book, I was wanting more.<\/p>\n

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THE COMPANIONS is 384 pages and is published by Wizards of the West Coast.\u00a0 This new book from R.A. Salvatore\u00a0retails for $27.00 for the hard cover and $16.68 for the Kindle version.<\/p>\n

THE COMPANIONS hits shelves (both virtual and real world) on August 6th.<\/p>\n

-Craig Meyer<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis latest installment in New York Times best-selling author R.A. Salvatore’s beloved fantasy saga, The Companions moves Salvatore’s signature hero Drizzt into a new era of the Forgotten Realms. As Drizzt’s fate hangs in the balance, he reflects on the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2924,2917,2349,641,487,678],"class_list":["post-8845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hard-copy","tag-book-1","tag-book-series","tag-dungeons-and-dragons","tag-fantasy","tag-novel","tag-r-a-salvatore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8845"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8850,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions\/8850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}