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Starless Night
First published 1996 · 464 pages
A tense, shadow-drenched descent into a perilous subterranean world where a brooding hero must confront his darkest origins.
What it feels like
Reading this feels like navigating a labyrinth with a torch that is slowly burning out. The mood is claustrophobic and dread-soaked, steeped in the heavy grief of recent loss and the terrifying prospect of facing an inescapable past. The prose is highly kinetic, shining brightest in its meticulously choreographed combat sequences that keep the pace brisk and the stakes incredibly high. It is a story of solitary sacrifice that ultimately bends back toward the enduring power of loyalty and found family. Fans of classic sword-and-sorcery and intricate, action-heavy epic fantasy will devour this grim but earnest journey into the dark, reveling in the tension of a hero walking willingly into the jaws of certain death.
- Mood
- claustrophobic
- tense
- shadow-drenched
- perilous
- Tone
- earnest
- heroic
- grim
- adventurous
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- grief and sacrifice · confronting the past · loyalty and found family · the weight of origins
- The writing
- Action-oriented and kinetic, characterized by meticulously choreographed combat sequences and earnest internal monologues.
- The arc
- Begins in heavy, solitary grief and transitions into a tense, desperate struggle for survival that reaffirms the bonds of loyalty.
- Who it's for
- Fans of classic sword-and-sorcery who love brooding heroes, intricate combat mechanics, and high-stakes subterranean adventures.
Content notes
- fantasy violence
- grief
- torture
- claustrophobia
- spiders
About the book
Return to the City of Spiders!Still reeling from the death of Wulfgar, Drizzt is allowed little time to grieve, for dark elves are massing in the caverns deep under Mithral Hall. To protect his adopted home, he'll have to return to the city of his birth, the evil City of Spiders. Menzoberranzan is one of the most dangerous places in the already perilous Underdark on a good day, but for Drizzt, a renegade with a price on his head, its certain death ever to set foot there again. But Drizzt Do'Urden and his companions have faced certain death before, and will gladly spend their lives for the sake of the dwarves of Mithral Hall.From the Paperback edition.
Description from Open Library.
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