This is an amazing story! The whole trilogy was great, each book having very distinctive changes in setting and the mentality of the main character. Many trilogies seem to have this "middle book" syndrome with the second entry, where it really just feels like a bridge between the first and the third. In this trilogy, each entry stands very well its own and ends with a solid conclusion.
R.A. Salvatore does a wonderful job of developing Drizzt as a character throughout the series and allows the reader to really feel like they "know" him. He also does a phenomenal job of describing the Underdark and creating a vivid picture of the dark world to the readers.
Sojourn is a wonderful story of the trials Drizzt must go through on his quest to be accepted in an unfamiliar world, where he can only hope that the principles of its inhabitants are more in line with his than those of his evil kin. A fun comparison can be drawn between Sojourn and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with the beginning of Drizzt's adventures on the surface. I just happened to read Sojourn right before reading Frankenstein for an English class and had a great time relating Drizzt to Frankenstein's monster in the beginning of his tale.
I highly recommend this whole trilogy to any avid fantasy readers. You'll find it hard to stop reading, even after the third book. Fortunately, there's plenty more in the saga, so have fun with it!
Get more detail about Sojourn: The Dark Elf Trilogy, Part 3 (Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt, Book III) (V. 3).
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