Liriel Baenre es una princesa drow de espíritu despierto que busca la aventura con el mismo apasionamiento con que la mayoría de los de su raza persiguen el poder. Cuando descubre un modo de llevar su magia a la superficie, decide ponerse en camino para llevar a cabo una peligrosa búsqueda. Perseguida por enemigos de su propio país, Liriel tampoco encuentra una calurosa bienvenida en el mundo de la luz.

I didn't finish this, barely began. The description sounded OK, but it is too focused on intrigue & fighting. I have too much to do to waste my time on this. I didn't reallize it was a Role Playing Game takeoff. ( )

Writing books based on established RPG worlds is a tricky business which very few authors can successfully pull off. Elaine Cunningham is one such author, and her series (both this one and Harper series) are pretty much the best books set in the Forgotten Realms one can find.

The characters are interesting and likeable, knowledge of Forgotten Realms lore is deep, language is pleasant to read, the author clearly possesses a sense of humor and, most importantly, it does NOT read as a nationalisation of a DnD campaign.

The protagonist is most interesting, being an example of non-evil drow who, unlike Drizzt (if you are reading this review you probably know who that is :)), retains very drow-ish qualities and mindset - ambition, love for intrigues, devotion to Lolth, love for spiders, sense of superiority... What sets Liriel apart is not innate goodness of the heart but curiosity and love for adventure. She is just too busy having fun to do evil. ( )

I read this book after War of the Spider Queen and The Lady Penitent series at the encouragement of my partner. I felt very distanced from the Drow in most of the War of the Spider Queen books and felt that, in part, it was because of the lack of female perspective on the matriarchy.

In short, I greatly enjoyed this book. That isn't to say that I didn't feel there was flaws, but that I felt the good far outweighed the bad. It brought up interesting, new conundrums that weren't touched on heavily in previous books, and introduced new lore and ideas previously unexplored.

The character of Liriel was especially interesting. I know that other reviews have said something akin to 'but the drow are EVIL!' and that's not necessarily true. They are pragmatic, and they are required to be cold and calculating, and their Goddess is evil, however no group is homogeneous. I've loved Ellistrae's followers in both the War of the Spider Queen and The Lady Penitent series, and found them to be interesting and, having followed those two other books, I see no reason to fault this book for the followers of Ellistrae.

Daughter of the Drow was well written, introduced interesting new characters, as well as fleshing out already established characters, and had me fascinated from start to end. I found the hypocrisy of Vhaerun's followers to be especially subtle and well handled.

This was a book that could have easily fallen flat, but Elaine Cunningham managed it with enough grace and subtly to reignite my passion for the Drow. I would highly recommend this book to any who enjoyed The Lady Penitent series, in particular. ( )

As a book in the Forgotten Realms I give it more credit then it probably deserves. I really enjoyed the Liriel character, and felt her development was suitable to the Drow standards, however I don't think she matches Fyodor at all. I was not a fan, and will not be a fan of Fyodor. The character seems underdeveloped and unliked. Too plain to be part of this fantasy.
As a previous commenter had said, if this was role playing, I would be interested. But it isn't, and I'm not.

If you are a fellow fan of the Forgotten Realms novels, then this is not bad of a book to add to the collection, however. Liriel still proves to be a notable drow, however un-drowlike she may seem.

I suggest reading all the way through before throwing the book to the side, it's worth the read.

All in all: Great begining and character creation (Liriel), weak character creation (Fyodor), medium length, weak ending, medium plot. ( )