Canticle
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Canticle” opens Salvatore’s “The Cleric Quintet” with a lively, small-scale Forgotten Realms adventure centred on a scholar-cleric. Readers warm to Cadderly Bonaduce and the rest of its quirky, likeable characters. Some praise its vivid action and a story kept close to one place, without world-shaking stakes; some also find the writing heavy-handed and the characters more fun than deep. A natural choice for fans of sword and sorcery.
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About the book
The Cleric Quintet is a series of five novels set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. They are written by R. A. Salvatore and follow the story of Cadderly Bonaduce, a scholar-cleric, as he attempts to stop the "Chaos Curse" unleashed upon the world. It is also a spiritual journey for Cadderly, where he begins to see things in a new light and becomes closer to his god.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 61 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 29% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 5 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 56 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is Canticle?
It has 320 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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