"Obviously, you understand the fundamentals of illithid society," said Syrzan. "You probably also know that we prefer to dine on the brains of lesser sentients and that we share your own race's fondness for torture. Still, some of your folk will fare all right. I can't eat or flay everyone, can I?"
Synopsis: The drow city of Menzoberranzan, deep in the heart of a mountain and safe from the light above has come under threat from a new danger: the demon-goddess Lolth herself. She's abandoned her clergy (distracting them somewhat from their fulltime pursuit of trying to kill each other) and stolen their magic. Weakened by the loss, many of the drow turn on each other, leaving two heroes to try to figure out where all the male drows are running away to...
Ah, the problems inherent in taking over the world.
Okay, I sort of liked this book a ton. The writing is facile and intricate, sentences and paragraphs fit to be moved into at a moment's notice, the plot hanging together well but most of all, the characterization is stunning. It's just so well done. There aren't clean-cut heroes and villains, and the people you want to be heroic turn out to be selfish and murderous because they want to win, because that's how things work in real-life.
It's stunning.
So, this is book 1 of a 6-book arc, but each is written by a different author, so I'm really hoping the other 5 are just as good as this one.
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