The Silent Blade
- 384
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Silent Blade”, the eleventh Drizzt novel, is fast and entertaining, and it opens the “Paths of Darkness” sub-series. Some readers single out how its characters develop and how seriously it treats one hero’s trauma. Others are troubled by violence they find gratuitous and by hateful language, or object to how its main female character is written.
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About the book
The Silent Blade is the first book of the Legend of Drizzt series Paths of Darkness. It is the eleventh book in the ever expanding Legend of Drizzt series and is followed by The Spine of the World which came out the next year. It was released in June 1998 from TSR and then later from Wizards of the Coast.
Reading order · The Legend of Drizzt
Full order & progress →- HomelandStart here
8.18.1 / 10 - Exile
8.08.0 / 10 - Sojourn
8.08.0 / 10 - The Crystal Shard
7.97.9 / 10 - Streams of Silver
7.97.9 / 10 - The Halfling's Gem
7.97.9 / 10 - The Legacy
7.97.9 / 10 - Starless Night
7.87.8 / 10 - Siege of Darkness
7.97.9 / 10 - Passage to Dawn
7.87.8 / 10 - The Silent BladeThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - The Spine of the World
7.67.6 / 10 - Sea of Swords
7.97.9 / 10 - Servant of the Shard
7.97.9 / 10 - Promise of the Witch King
–Not ranked yet - Road of the Patriarch
–Not ranked yet - The Thousand Orcs
7.87.8 / 10 - The Lone Drow
7.97.9 / 10 - The Two Swords
7.87.8 / 10 - The Orc King
7.97.9 / 10 - The Pirate King
–Not ranked yet - The Ghost King
–Not ranked yet - Gauntlgrym
–Not ranked yet - Neverwinter
–Not ranked yet - Charon's Claw
–Not ranked yet - The Last Threshold
–Not ranked yet - The Companions
–Not ranked yet - Night of the Hunter
–Not ranked yet - Rise of the King
–Not ranked yet - Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf
–Not ranked yet - Archmage
–Not ranked yet - Maestro
–Not ranked yet - Hero
–Not ranked yet - Timeless
–Not ranked yet - Boundless
–Not ranked yet - Relentless
–Not ranked yet - Starlight Enclave
–Not ranked yet - Glacier's Edge
–Not ranked yet - Lolth's Warrior
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 108 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 42% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 108 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Silent Blade?
It has 384 pages — shorter than 82% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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