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Tears of the Night Sky (Dragonlance Chaos Wars, Vol. 2)

Tears of the Night Sky (Dragonlance Chaos Wars, Vol. 2)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Suprisingly entertaining
Review: I wasn't too sure about this book when I first started it. I wasnt going to read it cause it got some bad reviews on here and on other pages. I even thought this book would be sort of a "chick flick", if you will excuse the cliche. But as I read this book, I actually found myself liking it, and not being able to put it down.

The book starts out a little slow. It takes place during the War against Chaos, during the same time as "Dragons of Summer Flame" was set. Crysania decides to embark on a quest to find out why the gods are so distant lately. She must find some powerful artifacts in order to do this. She is accompanied by a group of adventurers that pledge to keep her safe on her journey. Also, Dalamar plays a part in this story. He is the one that shows Crysania what must be done in order for her to reach her goals. He also has his hands in other things in this story, but I won't spoil it. Read and find out.

While some of the chapters in this book might not have been neccessary. This books maintains a smooth and easy read all the way though. The thing that I found most entertaining was the way the authors brought together actual dialogue from "Dragons of Summer Flame" and fit them into this book just so you would know where it takes place in respect to that book. I also like the way the authors brought in Crysania's white tiger, Tandar. We learn about how she came to know the tiger, and how the tiger affects her day to day life.

The story itself is a little cheesy. But the authors do a good job explaining Crysania's fears with the coming of the War of Chaos. They also do a good job explaining what a sightless person feels and the way they interact with day to day life. The characters aren't very well rounded, and the story seems a little rushed, but all in all this book is pretty good. It is definately worth the read if you want to learn a little more about Crysania after her appearence in the "Legends Trilogy". While this book doesn't have as much action as some other Dragonlance books, I still feel that it is worth the read.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Suprisingly entertaining
Review: I wasn't too sure about this book when I first started it. I wasnt going to read it cause it got some bad reviews on here and on other pages. I even thought this book would be sort of a "chick flick", if you will excuse the cliche. But as I read this book, I actually found myself liking it, and not being able to put it down.

The book starts out a little slow. It takes place during the War against Chaos, during the same time as "Dragons of Summer Flame" was set. Crysania decides to embark on a quest to find out why the gods are so distant lately. She must find some powerful artifacts in order to do this. She is accompanied by a group of adventurers that pledge to keep her safe on her journey. Also, Dalamar plays a part in this story. He is the one that shows Crysania what must be done in order for her to reach her goals. He also has his hands in other things in this story, but I won't spoil it. Read and find out.

While some of the chapters in this book might not have been neccessary. This books maintains a smooth and easy read all the way though. The thing that I found most entertaining was the way the authors brought together actual dialogue from "Dragons of Summer Flame" and fit them into this book just so you would know where it takes place in respect to that book. I also like the way the authors brought in Crysania's white tiger, Tandar. We learn about how she came to know the tiger, and how the tiger affects her day to day life.

The story itself is a little cheesy. But the authors do a good job explaining Crysania's fears with the coming of the War of Chaos. They also do a good job explaining what a sightless person feels and the way they interact with day to day life. The characters aren't very well rounded, and the story seems a little rushed, but all in all this book is pretty good. It is definately worth the read if you want to learn a little more about Crysania after her appearence in the "Legends Trilogy". While this book doesn't have as much action as some other Dragonlance books, I still feel that it is worth the read.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I liked it
Review: I'm not really a fan of Crysania, but I was interested in this book anyway. I read this book hoping they would maybe mention Raistlin more, but they don't. The story wasn't that exciting, but it was well written. I recommend this book to people who are looking for Dragonlance without the action. It really isn't that bad.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The best Chaos War Novel yet
Review: I'm not usually a great fan of the non- Weis and Hickman novels in the series, but this is the first one to actually say anything interesting about the characters. It has a few flaws, for example events from Summer Flame not well integrated and one steroetyped adversary that you could see coming ten miles away, and a rather cliched plot. Somehow, though, the writing and characters can make you forget this and make it a very enjoyable read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Romantic Story
Review: It is a great story about how Crysania finds a new love. Although it isnt Raistlin it is very well written.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!
Review: it was kind of slow at first, but then it picked up about the time when they were crossing the desert. and the part where he is changed to the tiger is pretty cool and i like dalamar. although i wanted to hear about dalamar going in to the rift because that sounded cool but oh well. the only bad thing is that one person who i rather liked died who i really didn't think should die... and it wasn't jeril

good book though

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: pathetic
Review: oh, how i loathed this book! it's physically painful, dumb and feels like a bunch of twelve-year-olds suffering in the summer. and i don't mean it's because it was written for teenagers. i mean, that all the characters, including a fifty plus woman (Crysania), a few adult mages (including Dalamar), and generally all the characters act like they have an emotional age of twelve. Like watching tom and jerry kids, or the flintstone kids, or the looney tunes kids show: being a children's version of a classic.

it is also a mocking of everything that faith is about, like the writers never even got a glimpse on faith or religion of any kind, a pathetic excercise of infantile emotions. a sad, very sorry excuse for the waste of time, money and paper.

and oh, how pointless it is! the plot goes absolutely nowhere. it establishes two things: the weather is very, very, very, comically HOT and Paladine, help us! Besides repeating these prhases just too many times, it repeats every statement at least five more times. like they photocopied the paragraphs and then forgot to separate them from the original. all the "action" in the book leads to nowhere, it absolutely makes no difference whatsoever if our heroes make their journey. they actually and deliberately miss out on all the action of the chaos war (which, given the nature of the war, is quite a feat actually). even the two battle scenes are not enough to chase away the boredom.

and oh, there is a love buried there somewhere. a cheap high-scool type romance, mixed with a ridiculous (and i mean *really* ridiculous) faerie tale element: the lover changing voluntarily into an animal. and even as a fearsome tiger, he still remains the same, pathetic, hopeless lover, so it's a wonder, they don't recognize him in the first minute. of course, the book is politically correct: a twentysomething desert mage can fall in love with a priestess thirty years his senior, no matter the numerous cultural differences, and a dwarf can become a priest of Paladine (Reorx being the god of _all_ dwarfs, _exclusively_).

the story is dragging along so painfully, that i couldn't even care when it got to the end - nominally, there is a climax-like episode with all the wrong and illogic twists and ludicrous scenes and still, you get the feeling, they missed out on something big, again and again. looking back from the end of the book, it was a completely meaningless, fruitless trip, which influenced nothing, solved nothing, only several characters died unnecessarily and the surviving made complete fools out of themselves. the whole promise of the story would have been much more interesting if they all stayed at home and fought for their city (and lost, as mentioned in the previous books) or died defending. also included are two scenes, which appear in the Dragons of Summer flame. these shouldn't have been too hard to write (or simply copy), but no, they rewrote both, so it creates paradoxes: sentences deleted, said by the other characters, or jumping to conclusions too fast, or by still other characters. this is not cunning, it's plain stupid and shows a complete lack of talent for writing. much worse than the Last Thane and one of the worst books ever written. period.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Tears of the Night Sky
Review: Serious and religious, this story tells about the Cleric of Paladin Crysania. Crysania is very devoted to her god, so when she find out that he may be in trouble, at the suggestion of Dalamar the Dark Elf, she goes on a quest to find the five dragon stones - magical stones that allow one to communicate with a god (among other things). Two of these stones appeared to Dalamar, and the last three are in a place to terrible it is not in her liking to go there. But this blind Cleric will do almost anything to save her god and bring him back to her.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: One word: Original
Review: Tears of the Night Sky brings out the emphasis on how hard it is for the revered daughter of Paladine to break loose and learn how to love again. Bestowed with a perilous journey and a dark gift from none other than Dalamar the Dark, Crysania embarks on a mission to find certain meanings to unanswered mysteries. Seeing as how Im probably the biggest Raistlin fan, this book really made me mad. All throughout the Legends Trilogy I had high hopes that Raistlin would change and see what he had going for himself. I had hopes that true love would show up the evil in him, but... Valin al Tandar is by far the best character Ive ever read about. The whole story-line was purely original in my mind. The imagery and other literary devices used by Baker and Berberick brought out the suspense, romance, and intrigue in the book. Ever wonder about Crysania's tiger-guide? Well, here's your answer.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I liked it
Review: The book explaned everything you ever wanted to know about clerics. It also cleared up why the gods did leave Krynn. The end was the greatest when the gods did leave.


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