Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71200 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1032 pages

Review
Salvatore shows . . . intelligence in using the classic elements, a pleasant dry wit and a narrative gift. --Publishers Weekly

Synopsis
The five popular novels featuring Cadderly, the heroic scholar priest, come together in an omnibus edition that contains "Canticle," "In Sylvan Shadows," "Night Masks," "The Fallen Fortress," and "The Chaos Curse.".

Customer Reviews

FIVE brilliant books in one! Excellent value for money
This is value for money. Having read all the dark elf books by Salvatore I decided to read his other books and so bought "Canticle", the first of the Cadderly Cleric Books. It was spell binding! I then decided I wanted to read the whole series and was delighted to find them all in this one book. Your getting 5 brilliant books (I especially liked the last in the series) in one, and a lot cheaper than buying them all separately. If you like RA Salvatores other books, and who couldn't, you'll love these. Cadderly is a powerful and spellbinding character on a par with Drizzt Do'Urban. In short read one of these books and you will want to read them all, so why buy them separately, when you can get all FIVE in one book and much cheaper. This is a must for all serious fantasy fans and is excellent value for money.

The cleric quintet - brilliant!
Any fans of Drizzt should really read this book! Although this book doesn't actually have any of the Drizzt characters in it, the events in the quintet become important later on in the Drizzt series. As with all RA Salvatore books, once I'd picked it up I couldn't put it down. It's a must read!!

A nice shift from the near constant violence in t'others.
Sorry about the glottal stop in the title; I couldn't fit what I wanted in.

I forgot to take any books with me when visiting my Dad's, so, as is normally the case on such occasions, I looked in the shelves above his bed and found one. In this case, it was the first book of the Cleric Quintet. (Actually, this was how I first met the Icewind Dale books, and the Hitchikers Guide not-a-trilogy.)

So, having read that one, I bought the 5 in one book. I think it is nice to have a familiar writing style, but in a book not centered so much on the combat side of the story. There are, of course, fights, but Cadarly, (the protagonist,) attempts to avoid them. Also, although the other characters are battle-hardened, superhero types, he is, realistically, new to the whole combat scene.

All said and done, this quintet contains many of the ingenious plot twists that frequent the author's other work, and provides a flowing and believable story. (Or as close as this genre can get to being realistic.)

Great, just not as great as other great things.