The Dragon King [Paperback]

R. A. Salvatore (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Warner; Later Printing edition (1996)
• ASIN: B000VAK2LG
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,787,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

R.A. Salvatore has spent so many years winding himself into fantasy worlds that he's still trying to figure out how to unwind. He is the author of more than forty novels and more than a dozen New York Times best sellers, including The Two Swords, which debuted at or near the top of many best seller lists.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Salvatore's triumph of imagination, November 30, 1999

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K. M. (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dragon King (Crimson Shadow) (Mass Market Paperback)

I have found among many great writers a sense of stability and lustered quality that seems to make them stand out among the rest of the literary world. Those like Stephen King, Peter Straub, John Grisham, and others all title this list. In the Crimson Shadow series, Salvatore has isolated simple characteristics in the most complex characters of Katerin, Luthien, and the universily loved Oliver De'Burrows. Even Brind 'Amour and Greensparrow posses that certain air of genuiune quality. Though some characteristics of the story (especially in The Dragon King) are exceptionally predictable, they add to the completion of yet another chapter in a world that exists only in the mind's eye of the reader. I would recommend this series to any and all who have the time and patience to read it. Trust me, you will be rewarded.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This is not the Dark Elf ..., January 14, 2012

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Dunn Stone - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dragon King (Crimson Shadow) (Mass Market Paperback)

The Dark Elf series are great, fun and interesting and filled with human (elf) dilema as well as dark enemies, darker magic and good allies.

The Dragon King is not on par. It is not a really bad book but nothing in it really shines out. The plot is mediocre, the heroes are not all that interesting and the enemies are not that evil. Perhaps it might have been better if the grand battles at the end were done better but it seemed the author had a deadline to meet and he did not really put that much effort into the last part. Pity.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The final conclusion of the "Crimson Shadow", November 3, 2002

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Sir Sparhawk (Bulgaria) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dragon King (Crimson Shadow) (Mass Market Paperback)

With this book Bob Salvatore concludes his "Crimson Shadow" trilogy - and he does it very good, however not perfect.
The battle descriptions are excellent, but frustrating, because in the whole book you want only one - with the evil Dragon King. But you must wait - it's great finish.