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Summary: Hello?..Nancy did you ever read the orginal Dragonlance?
Review: Book was wrote decently...Would be a lot higher on my list if the characters had not been Tanis's Parents...All thoughout the orginal series of Dragonlace and even the follow-up in Legends did it tell the reader that Tanis's mother had been raped and died in childbirth.....the actual story itself I'd give 3 stars to but just knowing that it was a lie ticks me off....who are we to believe? The creators (Weis and Hickman) or Nancy?.....
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Summary: Enjoyable, but leaves questions!
Review: First and foremost! I've been reading Dragonlance with a vengance since 1992. I'm not of the group that believe Weis and Hickman are the only two who should write the Dragonlance saga. I've read almost all the books with the exceptions of the new books that haven't been published yet (Which I will when they come out). With this in mind, I found the story to be very enjoyable! I thought the plot was exceptable. I also think that the author tackled a big subject and did an exceptable job with it. Like one of the other reviewers that I have read, I think that the secondary characters made the book. Which I think works for this book. To me the main characters were the main characters because of circumstance rather than strengthness of charcter. I loved the grizzly dwarf with a past. I am curious about a few things because of this book. I want to know what happens when Elansa and Char get to the Qualinesti homeland. I felt the book should of went on. Also I felt that the characters needed more explanation, such as Ley and his daughter. Why was Ley a Dark Elf, and who was his human lover. In conclusion I want to say that I enjoyed this book and the secondary characters. I feel that although this story isn't my favorite in the Dragonlance saga, it is in the dragonlance saga and is useful in understanding the happenings on Krynn and it's inhabitants along it's lengthy timeline! Read it, it's worth it!
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Summary: poetry??
Review: First off I would like to say that this book does have a good story line, that is if you can understand it. The writings that this author (Berberick) uses is not easy to follow for she uses a poetic type of wording that is not typical to the dragonlance series. When I try to read the words to creat that visual in my head of the story it just scrambles it form the reverse writing that the author uses. It tends to distract you from the real story and leave you in the fog where every thing is blurred. If you are a dragonlance fan then you will read this, If not then pass on this one for it does not work for me to be a real dragonlance book.
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Summary: Good Book, Main Characters Fall Flat
Review: In reading the other reviews for this book I'm struck at how these folks who've reviewed 'The Inheritance' have forgotten that Dragonlance is a shared universe. Anyone who believes that only Hickman and Weis are capable of writing Dragonlance is dead wrong. D-E-A-D wrong. I've read Dragonlance as a series for over a decade and I've seen some dang good authors, among whom is Nancy Varian Berberick. Hickman and Weis may've first brought DL to life in the first two trilogies way back when, but there've been alot more people involved with it than just these two. Doug Niles, Richard Knaak, Jean Rabe, etc. Dragonlance is a shared project, constantly brought even more life by its many talented authors and the characters are constantly changing as new depth is added to them. The Inheritance is one such case, where the background of Tanis' parents comes to life in interesting detail. I've never been a slave to the 'official and unchangeable canon' that only Hickman and Weis can write and so the idea of the novel very much appealed to me. Interestingly enough I didn't end up caring a whit about either Brand or Elansa or their would-have-been love affair. Brand seemed shallow to me, a character that I wouldn't mind if a sword ended up in his gut. Elansa was also a non-issue, such a non-issue I can't even think of anything about her! For me the entire book was enjoyable simply because of the secondary characters: the antics of Brand's band, the boozing of Char the dwarf, the pig-headedness of Kethrenan. I wanted to know more about Leyerlain and his half-human daughter Tianna. Even Nigh-toothless Kerin was more of a treat to read about than Brand and Elansa! The ending was nice and interesting enough, with the conversation between Char and Elansa as they traveled to Qualinost the only link between Brand, Elansa and Tanis. A good read, a good book overall, but saved purely by the second-tier characters. The main characters aren't the sort to worry about at all, which is bad given that the book was supposed to have been about Brand and Elansa.
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Summary: was this even dragonlance?
Review: Wow, im really disappointed in NVB's latest work. I really wish some of these dragonlance authors would do a little more research. I had recently finished a good dragonlance book called kindred spirits. the end of that books talks about how kethrenans brother was the mastermind behind the entire affair leading to tanis being born.
This book acts like that book doesnt even exist.....kindred spirits? WHAT kindred spirits.
another small fact that the author included into this book that shows a complete lack of research: she states the hill dwarves were formed because of the cataclysm when almost every other dragonlance book out there talks about (including the dwarven nations trilogy) how the hill dwarves were formed right from the beginning of thorbardins existance This kind of misinformation is terribly distracting from an otherwise descent story. NVB definitly has the story writting ability but she MUST know a world before making up facts about it the book did have good characters and good flow. as i mentioned before the auther is definitly talented and I would love to see her write more books for dragonlance in the future.
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Summary: Not following with the DL series
Review: You should have to have read all the DL books in order to write for them. I did not even realize this story was about Tanis's mother until I read all the other reviews because in one of the prelude books (Tanis The Shadow Years, I think) he goes back in time and meets his mother and it is nothing like this. Anyways my other complaint is that his mother throughout the entire book wants to be rescued and hates the people who captured her then in the last 20 pages all the sudden she hates her husband and loves Brand. It was a bit of a stretch for me.
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Summary: Not following with the DL series
Review: You should have to have read all the DL books in order to write for them. I did not even realize this story was about Tanis's mother until I read all the other reviews because in one of the prelude books (Tanis The Shadow Years, I think) he goes back in time and meets his mother and it is nothing like this. Anyways my other complaint is that his mother throughout the entire book wants to be rescued and hates the people who captured her then in the last 20 pages all the sudden she hates her husband and loves Brand. It was a bit of a stretch for me.
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