Rating: 
Summary: Starts slow and ends too quickly
Review: This book follows a group of characters, mostly Ogres, in the months that lead up to the downfall of Ogres from the favored of the gods to the brutal beasts that most people know them as. It also explains how the Irda separated from the Ogres, and how they ended up on the Dragon Isles. I think this book could only appeal to fans of the Dragonlance world and would be confusing to those who've never read Dragonlance. Overall it is a decent novel, but it starts very slowly and ends too quickly. Instead of a sweeping history of the Irda, it is a snapshot of the downfall of the Ogres. Instead of relating the history of the Irda through the War of the Lance or even the Chaos War, it ends with their arrival at the Dragon Isles. I think this topic could probably have been handled in a short story, rather than a novel. Due to the extremely slow start, it is very hard to become attached to any of the characters. Even after one begins to relate to some of the characters, they do things that seem inconsistant with their character quite often. True fans of the Dragonlance series should read this, as it does give some insight into the fall of the Ogres. Anyone who wants to start reading the Dragonlance series should stay away from this one until you're hooked- else it might scare you away!
Rating:
Summary: Starts slow and ends too quickly
Review: This book follows a group of characters, mostly Ogres, in the months that lead up to the downfall of Ogres from the favored of the gods to the brutal beasts that most people know them as. It also explains how the Irda separated from the Ogres, and how they ended up on the Dragon Isles. I think this book could only appeal to fans of the Dragonlance world and would be confusing to those who've never read Dragonlance. Overall it is a decent novel, but it starts very slowly and ends too quickly. Instead of a sweeping history of the Irda, it is a snapshot of the downfall of the Ogres. Instead of relating the history of the Irda through the War of the Lance or even the Chaos War, it ends with their arrival at the Dragon Isles. I think this topic could probably have been handled in a short story, rather than a novel. Due to the extremely slow start, it is very hard to become attached to any of the characters. Even after one begins to relate to some of the characters, they do things that seem inconsistant with their character quite often. True fans of the Dragonlance series should read this, as it does give some insight into the fall of the Ogres. Anyone who wants to start reading the Dragonlance series should stay away from this one until you're hooked- else it might scare you away!
Rating: 
Summary: A complex novel that fails to catch your interest
Review: This book is, frankly, a very boring one. While it does tell a key tale in Krynn's history, and the characters are very real, I couldn't help but ask, "What does it matter this character did that-and-that and the other character did that-and-that?" The Irda are quite different from the ancient ogres, as other DragonLance books have mentioned. This book explains little of the Irda except the origins, and I doubt that they haven't changed since they first settled. Paste a new title on it - "The Old Ogres" - and give us more attention-grabbing plot developments, then I'll give this book a better review.
Rating: 
Summary: pretty good
Review: This book was about the Irda, a race of ogres. They lived when they were the most beautiful and intelligent of the races on their planet. But then
some of them began to practice evil things and the ogres became corrupted, except for a small band who sailed away to live on a island.
Rating: 
Summary: Worst Dragonlance Novel I ever read (i've read them all)
Review: This book was horrible. I have read every single drangonlance ever published and this was the worst i have ever read. The grammar is horrible, like it was never edited. It ends so abrubtly its like the author just ran out ideas and the ran the credits. The dragonlance legends, worlds and customs are completly twisted for this one book. For example several times the book refers to the 3 moons. During the time of the Irda there was only one moon. The three moons are explained in depth in the Kagonesti. And at the time of this creation the Kagonest were battling the Ogres. A horrible read.
Rating:
Summary: Not bad, but not good either
Review: This is a good book, but it's not DragonLance - it reminds me of a soap opera. It's really odd for a DragonLance book. By no means a failure, but I expected something more along the lines of a typical fantasy novel when this is more dramatic (of sorts). I didn't like it that much, but I have to give it credit because it's storyline isn't that bad and everyone wanted to know how the Ogres fell from the light.
Rating:
Summary: Great Story...though leaves questions...
Review: This was an outstanding book. The plot was very well developed, the writer had a very good grasp of the overall "DL" saga, and she new her races of krynn. Now for the problems: (1) This was the biggest and most frequent problem I had with this book. The Events would jump for one thing to the next, without filling you in on how it happened. Example: The characters would be in one town in one paragraph, and a whole new one in the next, and the author doesn't tell you how that character did it. This book was full of that. There was very little or no transitional material at all. That can be very annoying. In one part of this book, one character was sitting in a hotel bar, and the story leaves him, when it coems back to him, he is locked in a castle dungeon, and you left asking huh? Because there is no explination on how he got there other than that he was captured. Those Jumps are my only problem with this book. If you can deal with that, then by all means this is an outstanding book. If that would annoy you, you might want to skip this one. My advice for Mrs. Baker: "Its called Transitional Material, look into it, because those jumps are annoying." -Jon
Rating:
Summary: Great Story...though leaves questions...
Review: This was an outstanding book. The plot was very well developed, the writer had a very good grasp of the overall "DL" saga, and she new her races of krynn. Now for the problems: (1) This was the biggest and most frequent problem I had with this book. The Events would jump for one thing to the next, without filling you in on how it happened. Example: The characters would be in one town in one paragraph, and a whole new one in the next, and the author doesn't tell you how that character did it. This book was full of that. There was very little or no transitional material at all. That can be very annoying. In one part of this book, one character was sitting in a hotel bar, and the story leaves him, when it coems back to him, he is locked in a castle dungeon, and you left asking huh? Because there is no explination on how he got there other than that he was captured. Those Jumps are my only problem with this book. If you can deal with that, then by all means this is an outstanding book. If that would annoy you, you might want to skip this one. My advice for Mrs. Baker: "Its called Transitional Material, look into it, because those jumps are annoying." -Jon
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Summary: Not the greatest, by far.
Review: To start I am an avid Dragonlance fan, in fact, it is my favortie series and I personaly have over 35 paperbacks and a few hardcovers. I am writing this review to tell all other Dragonlance fans to find another book before reading this one. This is the first Dragonlance book I had to put down because I just couldn't read any more. I dont even recall what the story involved. Usually with a Dragonlance book I read untill the roof falls on my head. Even then if I didn't die I would keep on reading. However this book bored me, failed to excite me in any way, and was in my opinion poorly written. It took me a span of 2 years to finish. Other novels have been devoured in a day. Now Linda P Baker has written other books and Im not saying she is a low caliber author, but this book was just plain bad. I didnt like it, and this is the first Dragonlance book I have said this about. Thank you for reading, thats my two steel.
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