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Review of The Cleric Quintet Collector's Edition
- New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatores' Cleric Quintet novels, now in a trade paperback collector's edition
R.A. Salvatore's The Cleric Quintet Collector's Edition tells the tale of the scholar-priest Cadderly, who is plucked from the halls of the Edificant Library to fulfill a heroic quest across the land of Faerûn. This one-volume collection includes all five of the original novels, complete and unabridged, with a new introduction by the author.
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- Posted on 2008-01-15
An Excellent Read
Cadderly is a priest at a remote library who is gifted with extraordinary intelligence and wisdom. While he prefers his scholarly ways, Cadderly must come to grips with the idea that sometimes heroes aren't chosen for their willingness, but their abilities. When the library is attacked, Cadderly must investigate and find the cause. His discoveries lead him on to confront a series of undead forces, including the corrupted corpse of a rival priest.
As with all of Salvatore's books, the fight scenes are wonderfully detailed with rich choreography. The author seamless punctuates these encounters with the internal struggles of the main characters, and you can't help but cheer on the heroes.
Score: 4
- Posted on 2007-12-30
A Great Addition
Good to add to your collection.If you have read other books by R.A. Salvatore, this is a gret set to add to your collection. Bought this for my teenage son for Christmas because he has read all the forgotten realms series and he really likes them. He was pleased by this, for one reason because it has all the books together. So far he says this collection is very interesting and his writing is on the same level all his other books.
Score: 5
- Posted on 2007-09-16
good story
The Cleric Quintet is a good story from the first page of The Canticle to the last page of The Chaos Curse. I especially enjoy the Bouldershoulder brothers.
Score: 5 - Posted on 2007-05-08
Painful
The first book was intriguing if only acceptable and the second book proved to be a marginally acceptable follow-up. I'm now approaching the end of the third book and I find I can't wait for it to end. Usually characters become more developed and dimensional as the story progresses but the opposite is true here. The dialog gets more and more stilted and repetitive just as the situations the characters become involved in become more absurd.
A mentally challenged dwarf that wears a cooking pot for a helmet and dreams of becoming a druid is one of hour heroes? The dwarven druid angle would have been interesting but the only words ever uttered by the character ranges from "Oooo" to "hee hee hee". Literally, that is the characters only words. I am at the point where anytime the dwarves are mentioned that I mentally cringe at the inane dialog sure to follow between Ivan and his 'brudder' Pikel. Everything they're involved in is like a bad Jackie Chan movie. These two characters are certainly in the running for worst characters ever in a fantasy novel.
The main character, Cadderly, is a frustrating and simpering type who agonizes over every time he's forced to kill someone to defend his own life or the lives of others. At first I thought this would be an interesting exploration of the morality in killing even evil people to save others but it pretty much stops at the whining stage. Cadderly uses a yo-yo for his weapon - I think that pretty much covers what is wrong with the action scenes of this story. He fights off some of the most deadly armed assassins in the world with a yo-yo? Had someone told me this was part of the story I would have refused to believe it.
The romantic interest, Danica, starts off best of all for an interesting character but by book 3 works her way into being little more than a 'tank' for Cadderly in between professing her love. She is apparently unbeatable regardless of the odds and never even slowed down despite the rare wounding. Of course, any wounds are always healed fully by Cadderly (who has no idea how he does it) and never cause any complication.
The first book is decent but the following are numbingly bad. His books about Drizzt and the Drow were so good at exploring the morality of choices made with vibrant and realistic dialog that I have trouble believing these were written by Salvatore. Maybe a ghost writer was involved? This collection is a long way from his best efforts. I don't know if I can bear the thought of slogging through the final two books but I have a very long flight coming up so I may have nothing better to do ...
Score: 1
- Posted on 2007-05-07
Underrated
Overshadowed by R.A. Salvatore's DRIZZT series', the Cleric Quintet is a great read which unfortunately a lot of people look over. This author is brilliant, and it'd be a shame to pass up this set.
Score: 5