Just when you thought it was over…BAM! More books. Currently standing at a healthy twenty books, the series will continue to expand. R.A. Salvatore has just signed a six-book deal with Wizards to write even more Drizzt adventures which will cap it off at a twenty six book series, if indeed that will be the series’s final tally.

I am still trudging through the earlier volumes myself and have yet to reach the more recent publications and have to say that the early stuff is amazing and I would recommend it to any reader looking for a swell time. However, as I have been told, and have somewhat experienced, the series begins to run a bit dry through the middle and towards the current end. Which leaves me wondering, how long can this lone dark elf’s story go and will it be an interesting read?

I am anxious to see what Salvatore has in store for Drizzt in these next six books, but I am also worried that the immensity of the character’s run will dampen what makes him great and make him into an overdone facsimile of what he used to be, a caricature, if you will. Alas, I suppose we shall have to wait and see. The first book in the next six-volume sequence is set to release in 2011, to much anticipation.