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  • Promise of the Witch-King

  • Forgotten Realms: The Sellswords, Book 2
  • By: R. A. Salvatore
  • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
  • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (182 ratings)
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Promise of the Witch-King

By: R. A. Salvatore
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Summary

The book was hidden well.

Its pages promised the power of the Witch-King himself.

And now that it’s been found, even the fact that it kills anyone foolish enough to crack its cover won’t stop people from fighting over it.

Welcome to the Bloodstone Lands!

Human assassin Artemis Entreri and his dark elf companion Jarlaxle have come to the demon-haunted wastelands of the frozen north at the request of their dragon patron. It doesn’t take long for them to find themselves caught in the middle of a struggle between powerful forces that would like nothing more than to see them both dead...or worse.

But Entreri and Jarlaxle aren’t just any wandering sellswords, and the ancient evils and bitter blood-feuds of the wild Bloodstone Lands may have finally met their match.

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Another great one

Loved this one, the insight into Artemis and Jarlaxle was a surprisingly welcome change if pace from the usual Drizzt/Companions stories. I love those stories and this had that same Salvatore flavour but with an enjoyable different angle in the central characters. I want more of this and didn't think I would when I first started it.

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Not about Drizt at all

story was okay, but it had absolutely nothing about Drizt, which is disappointing. However I have all the books in the series up to this point. The next title in this series is not available at this time on Audable and I can't honestly say that bothers me.

That said it was narrated well, and the story of was engaging, but I wouldn't bother to listen to it again.

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Brilliant series of books. Not obvious what order you should read them.

Surely with the advent of audible a series of books should be clearly ordered and the next book after this one is missing. Weird.

Ok back to my kindle.

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another great read!

love these books, working through them one at a time. shame they're missing book 16.

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Wonderfully magical!

If I could I would have read it from beginning to end in one go.

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A D&D game with your favourite characters

This book plays out much like a game of D&D, banding unlikely allies and two of the series's best characters together into a party and departing on a quest. In doing so it gives an inspiring look at how players at the table might integrate seemingly incompatible characters into a party. Thoroughly enjoyable and filled with tropes that any fan of D&D will enjoy

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Excellent

Excellent book overall, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Not Salvatore's best though sadly, but still a very pleasing continuation of the characters Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle Baenre

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Whoop whoop

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top listen

love the series, and more so because Entreri is awesome. Love his character arc throughout the books, just as good as Drizzts.

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love it only wish the third in the series wasn't region locked

the charter development is brilliant and as always jarlaxal always has a trick or answer for everything. only wish we sore some glimpse of drizzt to see what the companions were doing at this time

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