Rating: Summary: One of the most exciting dragonlance novels Review: I`ve read this book more than twice, sometimes when i have nothing to do, i get this huma book and read some of my favorite parts. This is definitely a good book. Although it parallels the story line of the chronicles trilogy. It is still much different from the chronicles. Huma is a knight who acknowledges his true feelings. He shows fear, loves his life and also shows compassion. This is the way a human should be. so he is also the greatest knight on the world of krynn. Mr. Knaak showed his ability in writing about dragons (i`ve also read some of his dragon books). but this book is definitely better than his other books i`ve read.. I`ll recommend it to all DL fans and new readers as well
Rating: Summary: I'm on the last chapter and don't want to finish! Review: Well... if I finish, it will be over... and that would be sad! I am new to the Dragonlance series. I haven't read SciFi books for a while and have read Fantasy even longer ago. These books are, to my surprize, truly engaging! I thought that reading the Lengend of Huma would be good because I'm trying to read these books in some kind of order. I was right! If you are new to the Dragonlance books, read this soon. The story has a number of twists, interesting characters, and a great deal of plot (it's really several adventures in one book) while still maintaining that ideal heroism thing that gives you the warm and fuzzies. I work in a stressful job... and for the last week have been looking forward to coming home, kicking up my feet, and escaping into this book. It's got me hooked to Dragonlance books!
Rating: Summary: Great Book. Review: Aside from the core books by Weis and Hickman, this is, in my opinion, the best Dragonlance book. It got me interested in the series. Great action, nice story. I look forward to reading more Knaak. Some of the dragonback fighting scenes were hard for me to visualize, but fun to try.
Rating: Summary: the best Review: the best dragon lance book ever written. read them all and you will agree.
Rating: Summary: A very "Huma"n legend Review: I love stories that tell how the "legend" of a fantasy setting came to that status. This is no exception. Huma is, well, very human and real throughout the book, and his friends are certainly no paragons of perfection. Although the characters are believable, the writing gets a bit overdone in spots. But this is a minor flaw, and almost to be expected in a story of this type. Overall, this is a story worth reading.
Rating: Summary: A True Classic Review: This has got to be the best fantasy novel I have ever read. The character of Huma isn't shown as the epitome of the knighthood, but instead he is just a simple knight who trys to do the right thing. The stories of Magius and Kaz show that people dont have to be good to do the right thing. I highly recommend this book to anyone, even if they aren't usually fans of the genre.
Rating: Summary: It flows as if a dream. Review: I loved this story, I only wish that the love story between Gwenyth and Huma was elaborated a little more. Also I wish that the tale of the white stag was added to the story. Other than that this book is amazing and I highly recommend. It reads best on it's own, It's not worth haggling over the details because in the very beginning of the book the historian says everything previous to this story is inaccurate anyways. I don't know why so many people skipped that or ignored that, so all their complaints about innacuracies are completely unfounded, they didn't even read the beginning of the book. Since Richard A. Knaak is a Rhetoric Major with a B.S. degree, I find it odd that there are some poorly written sentences in certain parts of the book. For the most part I just overlooked them and just absorbed the amazing story and the plot twists. This story made me cry in the end, and when a movie does that it usually wins an academy award. If there were sci-fi awards to be given, this book should be one of the nominees or even the winner.
Rating: Summary: Huma is the most gallant hero ever... Review: This book portrays Huma's life as a knight and moves up to his removal of Takhisis. This is my favorite DL book of all time, and I own and have read all of them! The glorious mage Magius is also a key character to look up to. Why can't we hear more about Magius?
Rating: Summary: excellent! simply excellent Review: it was an excellent book. it gives an excellent prespective as to exactly happened to the ledgandery huma. i recommend it highly
Rating: Summary: My favorite novel Review: This was the first Dragonlance novel I bought, and it still remains not only my favorite book by Richard A. Knaak, but also my most favorite book I've ever read. I loved how the story flowed, especially when he had the several trials to overcome, and the dynamic characters. It was his first novel, and still remains his best. Each time I read through this book, I read it even faster than the time before. The worst thing about this book is that any book I've read after it seemed to be very pale in comparison to this story. As a younger reader, I wasn't too picky about the writing styles of many of the Dragonlance authors, but as I grew and began my own writings, I began to critique other author's writing more closely. Knaak is one of the very few authors who I can still read without cringing from the writing style. As other reviewers have noted, this story isn't dead on with the other books, but there have been many other DL books which were even more off-kilt with the stories (Lord Toede). But if you take the book in itself without worrying about the smaller details, it is a great book, and set up a great foundation for Richard A. Knaak's writing career (who is now writing novels for the Warcraft and Diablo series).
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