Daughter of the drow book

The story moves along at a brisk and engaging pace and is filled with magic, combat, adventure, dragons. Elaine cunningham elaborates on the underdark as if she had personally travelled. Ive bought daughter of the drow 7 years ago 2008 but could not find time to read it. Join us in the next supersized 3 book adventure in the drow there and nothing more and find the answers. She describes the inhabitants of the world as if she had met them.

Daughter of the drow by elaine cunningham read between the. It is a great book but there are some missing pages on the file. Especially note the spiders and webs as in her hairweave symbolizing her allegiance to the spider goddess, lolth. Daughter of the drow by elaine cunningham goodreads. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Amid the treachery and murder that are the drow s daily fare, she feels something calling to her. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to share this book. Daughter of the drow as beautiful as she is deadly, liriel baenre flits through the shadows of menzoberranzan, city of the dark elves.

Daughter of the drow by elaine cunningham librarything. The new villains and supporting characters are great increasing the stakes to their highest yet. Elaine cunningham liriel baenre is a freespirted drow in search of adventure in the forgotten realms. Daughter of the drow by elaine cunningham is a beautifully written forgotten realms adventure. The second being tangled webs and windwalker being the third. I read the book years ago and was glad to see it come to audible. Daughter of the drow audiobook by elaine cunningham. Daughter of the drow daughter of the drow elaine cunningham. Although gromph has been able to train her in wizardry and keep her away from the wiles of the priestesses, matron mother triel baenre insists that she enter the clerical academy of arach. Having read and enjoyed many of the drizzt dourden series, i found daughter of the drow, to fill in more of the gaps about drow society, in a way that was not predictable.

This year i promised myself to read all unread books in my library. Subscribe sign up for your allaccess pass to kickass heroines, quotable sidekicks, and actionpacked magical adventures. Click to read more about daughter of the drow by elaine cunningham. The complete book of elves by colin mccomb focuses some of its attention on the drow. The character development of the book is excellent, especially for the two main characters liriel and fyodor, and the deepdown feelings and goals of the characters are made clear. Liriels relationship as a good drow with an evil goddess. Essentially his backstory was that he was the product of a drow raiding party coming to the surface and leaving behind a little bundle of joy in a local lords daughter. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Elaine cunningham elaborates on the underdark as if she had personally travelled throughtout the caves.

Daughter of the drow is an underdark novel about a drow princess who, after giving up all hope of escape from her chores as an evil spidergod priestess locked in a bitter struggle for power, encounters a berserker warrior and becomes involved in a quest involving a talisman of power and finds true love. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Finally, mere minutes after renouncing lloth, ellistrae enabled liriel to perform a resurrection. Liriel goes on to make the acquaintance of the human beserker, fyodor. The story is about a daughter, liriel, of a noble drow house. Beautiful as she is deadly, liriel baenre flits through the shadows of menzoberranzan, city of the dark elves. If you like fantasy, i think you will appreciate this novel. Amid the treachery and murder that are the drows daily fare, she feels something calling to her. Salvatore books, this gives a more lighthearted and fun focused approach to drow society than what might be expected from an r. As beautiful as she is deadly, liriel baenre flits through the shadows of menzoberranzan, city of the dark elves. Although gromph has been able to train her in wizardry and keep her away from the wiles.

Tangled webs builds off the excellent daughter of the drow and turns everything up to 11. He was also the master of sorcere, the arcane school, and the eldest son of matron mother yvonnel baenre, which made him the most powerful male in the city. Liriel baenre is the prized daughter of gromph baenre and therefore a princess of house baenre in menzoberranzan. What made the experience of listening to daughter of the drow the most enjoyable. Drow constantly war with other underground neighbors such as dwarves and dark gnomes svirfneblin, and keep slaves of all types including allies who fail to live up to drow expectations. Amid treachery and murder that are the drow s daily fare, she feels something calling to her.

Gromph baenre was a drow and the archmage of menzoberranzan, as well as a very capable diviner. Starlight and shadows, book 1 by elaine cunningham book cover, description, publication history. Following the recently released recovers of daughter of the drow and tangled webs, the first two titles in the series, this audiobook is not to be missed. Raised by humans, he never saw a drow until meeting the black spider, and he was sent to be trained as a paladin to hopefully curb his races chaos. Daughter of the drow audiobook elaine cunningham audible. Starlight and shadows, book 1 cunningham, elaine on. Unlike most drow, liriel is curious about the world above. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. One half a road trip by sea and one half a intrigue plot the book keeps you guess and the story moving. Salvatores drizzt dourden books and all my knowledge is written by one author.

Liriel baenre gives a different view that that given by drizzt dourden, a view that while different is complemetry. I spent many enjoyable hours on the phone with elaine, picking her wonderful brain for details and symbols. The books protagonist, dark elf liriel baenre, is complex and wellwritten. Her immersion into the drow culture of treachery and murder came at the age of five, when gromph ordered the death of her mother so that he could take possession of the magicallygifted child. She goes to great lengths to obtain forbidden literature and artifacts. Elaine cunningham longing for travel and adventure, freespirited elf priestess liriel baenre sets aside her duties in menzoberranzan when she discovers a way to bring magic to the surface world and impulsively begins. Daughter of the drow by elaine cunningham by elaine cunningham. Beautiful as she is deadly, liriel baenre flits throught the shadows of menzoberranzan, city of the dark elves. Beautiful as she is deadly, liriel baenre flits through the sh.

Elaine cunninghams book is set in a time when menzoberranzan itself is going through change, and the character. Dara rosenberg pronounces words oddly, and has awkward pauses in the middle of sentences and even multisyllable words. Moreover, the way in which liriel finaly escaped from lloth was a bit of an anticlimax to one of the central struggles within the book. The nook book ebook of the daughter of the drow forgotten realms. A novel of the underdark by elaine cunningham 1996, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. Cover for the first book in the starlight and shadows series, daughter of the drow, by elaine cunningham. Daughter of the drow by elaine cunningham fictiondb. Daughter of the drow by elaine cunningham booksamillion.