Customer Reviews
Getting to the roots of Artemis - By: AK Jones, 04 Oct 2007 
This is the concluding book in the Sellswords trilogy. Whereas the second book, Promise of the Witch King, was pretty much hack n' slay, which is great since Salvatore is the master when it comes to writing battle scenes, Road of the Patriarch concentrates more on the development of several parties, namely an assassin's guild, a dragon duo, a band of drow & of course Artemis Entreri. While we thought we had met some pretty powerful characters in book 2, that's nothing compared to King Gareth & his friends, who turn out to be the group who had destroyed Zhengyi. Salvatore makes a point of one person of this group in particular, the monk Kane, to be a most powerful force to reckon with. For destroying the dracolich, King Gareth bestows an apprentice knighthood on Artemis, which, as Jarlaxle found, is quite amusing as Artemis is hardly a knight in the making. Indeed members of Gareth's band were pretty dubious about awarding some unknown person such an honour. I found it quite strange that Garath, being a powerful paladin, didn't use his inherent detect evil ability on Artemis, because I'm sure if he did, he would most likely change his mind.
Minor quibbles aside, I reallly enjoyed the book. I found it to be the least predictable Salvatore story yet. You're kept guessing as to whether Jarlaxle & Artemis will have to confront these powerful characters & despite the foot having been taken off the action accelerator, there are some good fights, especiallly between Artemis & an axe-wielding ranger.
The last section of the book comes as a complete change & explores in quite some depth Artemis' background. Salvatore sets up some nasty charaters that you reallly want Artemis to dispose of.
Great fun.
Still Captures your imagination - By: W. Hosking, 23 Mar 2007 
Third & final in the series of the sell swords, wouldn't say the best as i think promise of the witch king was, but i still couldn't put it down, & read both books within a week. Entreri & Jarlaxle,two of my favorite characters in his books, both explored more deeply as the book goes on. I also enjoyed
some of the new characters in the book,especiallly Kane the monk, don't want to mess with that board chopper. BUY THIS BOOK, worth every penny to finish off a good series.
A bit disappointing for me - By: Beeching Rm, 30 Oct 2006 
I loved the first two of the trilogy & alllot of this book was reallly good as is most of R.A Salvatore's work, but like the Hunter's Blades Trilogy I felt my interest waning a little. This may be because the main characters are of course the same & the way they fight has been told & retold so many times that it has become slightly monotonous. I feel that sometimes he is bringing in new plot twists because he has to & is somewhat desperate for new ideas to bring into the story. The new characters that appear are fantastic & some of the twists in the book are as well, in fact I would even have liked to have seen a longer story or a 4th book as he could have gone into so much more depth with certain factions & characters. As an ending to a trilogy it does bring closure to many of the issues raised in the previous books but also leaves quite a lot untold. A massive bonus is you do find out more about Jarlaxle's & Enteri's past which answers a few questions. I do not wish to add in any spoilers so I will leave it at that! In conclusion it is definitely worth a buy because it is a good book but I guess just slightly disappointing for me when it comes to Salvatore's usual I-can't-put-this-book-down effect, which is why I have given it 3 stars. Hoped this has helped & my apologies if you do not agree with me!
