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Summary: woth reading
Review: this is excellent! gives valuable info about both raistlin and caramon. keep up the good work tracy and margret
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Summary: Captivating Prequel to Brothers in Arms
Review: This book captured the deep details of the first book. The enthralling world of magic entwined with the plot of the story to make one amazing but plausibe book that keeps you into the story. This book talks about Raistlin's experience in the Test and will surely captivate the reader's heart.
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Summary: My Good God!
Review: Well, I must admit that Soulforge was enthralling and provided a great read and a much more indepth look into the character of raistlin as a youth and how he came to his newfound bitterness in chronicles. This book is a ruination of all soulforge created! I admit in soulforge there were a couple of inconsistencies, probably due to the absence of Tracy Hickman but in Brothers in Arms it seems as if Weis and Perrin have turned the whole Dragonlance saga around! After a while of reading this book I got the distinct expression that Weis hadn't even seen it and instead let Perrin take the lead, and what a disasterous lead and that! In this book, elements about Raistlin which are extremely conspicuously absent in Chronicles and any other DL novel appear, the entire previous system of magic casting is rewritten, as well as many things which are too clashing are suggested. If you are just looking for a book to read, this fits it, but if you expect the world of dragonlance as I have grown to know, this book is a total waste. Alas Dragonlance has fallen so far.
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Summary: The Problem with Prequels
Review: This review is not a Star Trek Episode parody, it is a general critique on the prequel genre. Having created and developed excellent characters in Caramon, Raistlin, and Kitiara-- in both the Dragonlance chronicles and the Twins Trilogy-- Ms Weis has provided her reading public with particular notions of who Raistlin, Caramon, and Kitara are. She is in a sense handicapped with a fully developed character, who must now be deconstructed for her fans and then partially rebuilt, to emerge in final form as an entry character in a long and detailed saga. No mean task, and not for the faint of heart. A similar problem confronts the Anarkin Skywalker/ Darth Vader deconstruction in the Star Wars Prequel. George Lucas has a big task in front of him to bring us to Star Wars without alienating his loyal audience. With an established fan base, demand for "anything more on Raist, et al" is guaranteed at a certain level, and thus the author need not achieve the high standard of the initial successful work. See Michael Crichton as an example. Does Weis succeed with her difficult task? Perhaps. Mr Perrin's involvement, versus' Tracy Hickman's, doubtlessly changed how the entire prequel was crafted, so inconsistencies with the original Dragonlance and Twins volumes are hard to avoid. Sadly, we are not treated to in depth character development. The 'sameness' of Raistlin's interactions with Caramon, as well as Caramon's own simplicity-- more believable if one takes into account his slow and painful growth in the six books that established his "known" character-- ring hollow, though at times one can feel Weis' storytelling dominating. An entire set on "The Kitiara Chronicles" would be interesting from a plot perspective-- since she is a bad guy in the end-- and far richer as a character study. Her story describes descent into evil in the great tragic tradition. Her sections are the best in this book, yet she is not given equal billing in the title "Brothers in Arms." If you are a Dragonlance fan, you will probably enjoy this book. If you expect the same quality as the Dragonlance Chronicles or Twins Trilogy, you may be disappointed. If you haven't read the Dragonlance series, the book barely stands up on its own.
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Summary: Pretty Interesting...
Review: I love Raistlin and Caramon, which is why I picked up this book. The Twins Trilogy was in my opinion the best books of DL there ever were. So I read this book since it described the events prior to the War of the Lance. I personally thought it was a very good book. I do agree that it does not sound like Weis wrote any of it. Never seen so many curse words in a DL book, not that I'm complaining, but something I noticed. By itself, it was a very interesting story that only R & C can provide. Jolly ol' Caramon, and bitter ol' Raist. As to the criticism that their personalities are not accurate in this book, I wrote that off to the fact that not everyone is the same personallity wise throughout their lives. Things change, and I think this book shows how much both R & C changed from the time of this book through the War.
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Summary: thank M Weis
Review: I read this book and the peceding (soul forge) and found them to be incredable.A amasing walk into Raistlens life.This is the book to read if you want to know why Raistlen is the way he is.It takes off where soulforge leaves off making my understanding of Raislen (my personal faverate caracter) that much greater.So in retrospec thank you M.Weis for all the books you have wrote and all I hope you well write in the future.
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Summary: YEECH
Review: Hello? I read this book and was aghast at several things. Are you sure MW had anything to do with this book? It seems like the work of a different author... Like previous other dragonlance spin-offs, this book had several glaring errors in protraying Raistlin, Kitaira, Caramon and other minor characters from previous books. For a die hard fan like me this meant that it totally spoilt my enjoyment of the book. Bleah. In any case I note that several readers have observed this as well. I should have listened to them before buying this book. The Raistlin (and Caramon) in this book do not bear much similarity to the twins in Chronicles or Legends (what little we know of their past before the War of the Lance and beyond)in past or manner. For those who have not seen the light, I suggest you go read the earlier books AGAIN before embarking on this book. On the other hand, maybe it is better if you just re-read the earlier chronicles and forget about this book.
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Summary: a must for the true raist fan
Review: Book two of the Raistlin Chornicles is a sure one to please any fan of the reb robed mage Raist. Once I opened the book I found it very hard to put down (and that was only to sleep!) Margaret Weis has done it again. I eagerly await the next book untill than will be re-reading the first triology that fully deals with them!
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Big disappointment after Soulforge. Weis is much better off without Don Perrin. He obvliously got to help because of his relationship to Weis and not because of any writing abilities. Glad I got this from the library. Would have been ticked if I had wasted 6 bucks on it.
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Summary: A charming sequel
Review: This book is the bomb. I was a bit hesitant about a sequel to "The Soulforge" and because it was written by Margeret Weiss and Don Perrin. But after reading a couple chapters I couldn't put the book down. This book totally fill the readers in on what happen after Raistlins test put before the companions meet at the inn. A must read for any dragonlance fan!
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