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Summary: Congratulations
Review: After the disappointing Dragons of Summer Flame, Douglas Niles succeeds in writing an extraordinary background of the Chaos War. Niles plainly manages to give a detailed description of the Maze-underground kingdom of Thorbardin along with the mass destruction caused by the creatures of Chaos. This is one of the finest, most complete novels depicting the Hylar and Daergar clans. Simply astounding.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I absolutley loved this book! I have long been a fan of the Dragonlance series and Douglas Niles is one of my favorite writers. I think this book could be one of his best, and I hope he writes more about the dwarves of Krynn.
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Summary: The Last Thane, one of Douglas Niles' best.
Review: I always felt that Douglas Niles was one of the best Dragonlance writers. His latest book is good but lacks. It has a very exciting storyline and very evil villians and great battle scenes. It gave a lot of insight into the Dwarven realms, more than some other books featuring the dwarves. The end is kind of a quick fix scenario though. But I recommend to read it anyway. P.S. People keep saying that the idea about how after all these years the Hylar dwarves finally come out to fight is ridiculous and that it would never happen. Well, I seem to recall that it was mentioned briefly in Dragons of Sping Dawning that the dwarves of Thorbardin did come out to fight at the end of the War of the Lance. So its not so ridiculous and stop ridiculing Douglas Niles about it.
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Summary: A great dwarf tale of Thorbardin
Review: I have never been a maniac about the dwarven realm of Thorbardin, but this book opened up my eyes. I must admit the introduction of daemon warriors and the platinum egg inticed me into further reading the story. Other than Weis and Hickman, Douglas Niles is one of my favorite DragonLance authors.
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Summary: Kill em all, let Margaret sort em out
Review: I was not particularly impressed by "The Last Thane". On the whole, it was one of Doug's lesser works in my opinion. While he had some really good material in going into depth about life in Thorbardin, and the relations between dwarven clans, it seemed to me like he was just trying to see how many dwarves he could kill off at once, so no one would wonder where they were when the Fifth Age writing started.
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Summary: Kill em all, let Margaret sort em out
Review: I was not particularly impressed by "The Last Thane". On the whole, it was one of Doug's lesser works in my opinion. While he had some really good material in going into depth about life in Thorbardin, and the relations between dwarven clans, it seemed to me like he was just trying to see how many dwarves he could kill off at once, so no one would wonder where they were when the Fifth Age writing started.
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Summary: Interisting, but could have been better
Review: Most of this book was well written except for the ending. It should have been a little more detailed or maybe extended. Niles is one of my favorite authors and has written many good books , but he could have done better.
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Summary: A So-So Effort
Review: Niles is at his best with well-rounded villians and well-rounded heroes, as in _The Puppet King_. _The Last Thane_, regretably, lacks them and suffers because of it.The action of the book, and there is certainly a lot of action, revolves around a civil war of the dwarves in Thorbardin and the sudden appearance of a vast army of chaos creatures. The plot has a great deal of potential, but the characters Niles creates seem one-dimensional, almost cartoonish at times. They seem to be more stereotypes of each dwarven subrace instead of individuals. They lack credible motivations and they are sometimes uninteresting because of it. It is hard to care about the protagonists or antagonists. Bundled into the mix is a number of highly unlikely events, even for a Dragonlance novel. Some of the circumstances are so improbable, such as the numerous encounters of the protagonist and his gully dwarf friends with an assasin, that the reader loses his suspension of reality. If you're looking for an action novel and don't want to worry too much about thinking, purchase and enjoy this novel. If you are on a quest to read every Dragonlance novel, it's worthwhile. Otherwise, skip it.
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Summary: A So-So Effort
Review: Niles is at his best with well-rounded villians and well-rounded heroes, as in _The Puppet King_. _The Last Thane_, regretably, lacks them and suffers because of it. The action of the book, and there is certainly a lot of action, revolves around a civil war of the dwarves in Thorbardin and the sudden appearance of a vast army of chaos creatures. The plot has a great deal of potential, but the characters Niles creates seem one-dimensional, almost cartoonish at times. They seem to be more stereotypes of each dwarven subrace instead of individuals. They lack credible motivations and they are sometimes uninteresting because of it. It is hard to care about the protagonists or antagonists. Bundled into the mix is a number of highly unlikely events, even for a Dragonlance novel. Some of the circumstances are so improbable, such as the numerous encounters of the protagonist and his gully dwarf friends with an assasin, that the reader loses his suspension of reality. If you're looking for an action novel and don't want to worry too much about thinking, purchase and enjoy this novel. If you are on a quest to read every Dragonlance novel, it's worthwhile. Otherwise, skip it.
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Summary: Not up to dragonlance standards. But still ok.
Review: Not exactly a quick read or a page turner but still a good book with a good amount of depth.
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