Drizzt's Daughter Gets Audible-Exclusive Book Launching This Week

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A spinoff of The Legend of Drizzt novel series launches as an Audible exclusive this week. On October 24th, Audible will release Betwixt Two Worlds: A D&D 50th Anniversary Adventure, a new audio novella focused on Drizzt's daughter Breezy. The audio novel was written by R.A Salvatore and narrated by Victor Bevine. Based on the three hour length, this isn't a full-length novel. Breezy, also known as Briennelle Zaharina, is the daughter of Drizzt and Catti-Brie. She was first introduced in the 2020 novel Relentless but has made no further appearances since.

Interestingly, as an Audible Original, there doesn't appear to be plans to release a print (or digital print) version of the book. For the time being, Audible might be the only way to enjoy this introduction to Breezy Do'Urden.

A Webtoon about Breezy was announced last year but has faced significant delays. Per artist Ryan Maniulit's Tumblr, he stepped away from the project due to "various reasons" and had no update on that series.


When Drizzt Do’Urden first entered Icewind Dale in 1347, he found a place quite unlike anywhere he had ever known, a land of freezing winds and ferocious monsters, of dramatic vistas and unrelenting challenges. Most of all, though, he found a land populated by folk who knew all too well the price of a misstep, whether walking into a yeti den or trusting a stranger.

Making his way in those early days was no easy task, but Drizzt would find focus and joy in watching the antics of a girl and a bunch of dwarfs trying to keep her from getting herself killed. A girl who would become his friend, who would become a woman, who would become his wife.

When Breezy Do’Urden, the daughter of that marriage, enters Icewind Dale more than 150 years later, she finds a land no more tamed. And while her father’s reputation has mostly smoothed the way for her among the ever-suspicious people, she carries her own concerns, confusion, and a trauma realized in the difficult journey through the Spine of the Word Mountain.

She also carries the blood on her hands.
 

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My wife has been on a kick of listening to or reading audiobooks and has gotten into some of the stuff that's adjacent to urban fantasy. Apparently old elf/vampire/lycanthrope/secretly a dragon/secret king/etc. etc. meets younger woman is a pretty common plot line.
Meh.
 

My wife has been on a kick of listening to or reading audiobooks and has gotten into some of the stuff that's adjacent to urban fantasy. Apparently old elf/vampire/lycanthrope/secretly a dragon/secret king/etc. etc. meets younger woman is a pretty common plot line.
Meh.


I love the last paragraph:
“At 20, I would have happily run off into the sunset with the promise of romance and adventure,” Ms. Ravindran said. “If you asked me now, I’d be ordering a background check, I’d have to take vacation days from work and ask my husband if he’s cool with it.”
 

If I was writing this description I would not want to call to attention how messed up it it Drizzt knew his wife sinc she was a child, but I guess I'm not writing blurbs for audible.
Eh, that complaint would (somewhat) make sense if Drizzt was human and aged at the same rate.

He did know Cattie-Brie when she was very young. But their romantic relationship did not start until they were both well into adulthood.

Heck, even with just humans in the real world . . . nothing wrong with two consenting adults, of an appropriate age, having a romantic relationship, even if one of them is significantly younger than the other.
 


So basically Drizzt is like Woody Allen, but less funny.
Eh, not really.

Woody Allen famously dated, then married, his adoptive daughter. I think most folks find that sketchy. I certainly do. While Allen wasn't related by blood to his now wife, he did have an established father-daughter relationship. Ew.

Cattie-Brie, and Wulfgar, are the adopted children of Bruenor, not Drizzt. Drizzt was a family friend. Again . . . IMO . . . as long as everyone's an adult and everyone is consenting, nothing wrong with it.

And we are dealing with fantasy species that have no real world equivalent. It's not like Drizzt was some old guy tricking the young gal into marrying him. Both characters were adults when they started their relationship, and in "elf-years", Drizzt wasn't so far separated from Cattie-Brie.

Now, Cattie-Brie was in a prior romantic relationship with her adoptive brother, Wulfgar. Was that relationship one that crossed lines? For me, more so than her relationship with Drizzt, but it doesn't really bother me either. With unusual relationships, in both fiction and real-life, context matters.
 

Eh, that complaint would (somewhat) make sense if Drizzt was human and aged at the same rate.

He did know Cattie-Brie when she was very young. But their romantic relationship did not start until they were both well into adulthood.

Heck, even with just humans in the real world . . . nothing wrong with two consenting adults, of an appropriate age, having a romantic relationship, even if one of them is significantly younger than the other.
I think the point, though, is that this is a short blurb that doesn't have the context of novel series. And the way it's worded is quite... something (why don't you have a seat over there). And they didn't even need to include that in the blurb. Like Not a Decepticon, it's not what I would have chosen were I professionally in charge of book blurbs.
 

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