I recognize this author!
I got to know R.A. Salvatore through...mmm...one of his much earlier books for Forgotten Realms where they're trying to find the old home of the dwarves... Streams of Silver! That's it! And I read the last two books of The Hunter's Blades Trilogy and I've yet to start The Orc King. I find him alright as a writer though I sometimes flip through his fight scenes because first off, I'm not very knowledgeable about fighting and how people move in such ways and secondly, I'm not interested in fighting much anyway.