The Stowaway

This is not a badly written story. It made for some light easy reading for me. It is however somewhat generic. I know that R. A. Salvatore made his name with the Forgotten Realms stories that he has written, and I remember enjoying some of his Drizzt stories when I was younger. I picked up this from a second hand shop through a burst of nostalgia. The Forgotten Realms IP is a vast one and it was nice to re-immerse myself in the universe. It suffers from being the archtype for so much modern fantasy unfortunately, leaving it somewhat derivative. This is a nice easy read. There is nothing challenging here. There is also nothing particularly original here.

This was a pretty quick read, and I enjoyed it. There was enough description that someone not familiar with Forgotten Realms gets a grounding in the world, but not so much that people who are familiar with the world are wanting things to hurry up already.



My one real beef is that it ends on a cliffhanger, and we aren't going to see the next book for several months minimum (probably closer to a year).