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Summary: I've Read Better
Review: Being a true DL fan, This book basicly [stunk].I have a tendency to Compare all DL Books to "The Legend of Huma" and when done so, this book is lacking. The begining is slow, the write had no idea how to shape a book based on a dwarf. Don't get me wrong, I like Dwarves, they are one of the better races of krynn, but this one was just, bleh. I continually wanted to find another book. I made myself read it all the way through, and about the middle of the book, it gets pretty good, but the action can't hold this one above water. The rest of the storyline and character descriptions are just way to gone to call it good. This book [stunk]. If you have nothing else to read, then, by all means this one is for you, but if you can scrape up the $10.00 for a new one, do it! Save this one for when you are ready for bed, because it will put you to sleep!
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Summary: One of the finest DL books
Review: Berberick puts on a fine storytelling display with this book. Sadly, it came out from TSR, which has a negative reputation among readers of fantasy literature. As a result, a fine book like this gets overlooked by those who would be interested in it. Good characterization, good plot development, good reread value - I find little wrong with this little gem. Recommended.
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Summary: I've Read Better
Review: Blah. Weak. Flat. Boring. These are just a few of the words that describe this book. As with the other Heroes books it's not really part of the Dragonlance canon, so there isn't much to miss if you decide to skip it. There is a bit about the Companions, but it is brief and actually doesn't fit well with the Chronicles (this book takes place between books 1 and 2 of that series). Supposedly the Companions "fought to recover the Hammer of Kharas" but in this book it seems like the fighting was for something else and the Hammer gets found later. I won't dwell on these issues though, let's break the book down a little: Writing: Its fine, I'm not expecting classical literature in a pulp fantasy novel, and I'm not going to mark a book down for lacking something I didn't hope it would have. The action scenes and dialog were good, but not enough to carry the book. Story: Except for the fact that it relies on a rather irrational event (A ranger's gifting of a priceless sword to a barmaid he never met before), the rest is borderline. Political events often serve as a good backdrop to stories of love and hate, but this one doesn't really pull it off. The love is contrived, the hate/revenge is simplistic, and the politics are downplayed to be predictable to make room for the action. Characters: Here is where the book really stumbles. The characters are so predictable and stereotypical (even for fantasy) that you really don't care who lives or dies. The stoic good-hearted elf, the lovesick young human woman, the stubborn honor-bound dwarf, the evil one-eyed henchmen, etc. At the end an important character dies and I really wasn't moved at all. About halfway through this book I found myself eyeing my shelf for what I wanted to read next, which is not a good sign. Considering how many other (better) Dragonlance books are out there, I would save this one until the end, or just skip it entirely.
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Summary: This blade is dull
Review: Blah. Weak. Flat. Boring. These are just a few of the words that describe this book. As with the other Heroes books it's not really part of the Dragonlance canon, so there isn't much to miss if you decide to skip it. There is a bit about the Companions, but it is brief and actually doesn't fit well with the Chronicles (this book takes place between books 1 and 2 of that series). Supposedly the Companions "fought to recover the Hammer of Kharas" but in this book it seems like the fighting was for something else and the Hammer gets found later. I won't dwell on these issues though, let's break the book down a little: Writing: Its fine, I'm not expecting classical literature in a pulp fantasy novel, and I'm not going to mark a book down for lacking something I didn't hope it would have. The action scenes and dialog were good, but not enough to carry the book. Story: Except for the fact that it relies on a rather irrational event (A ranger's gifting of a priceless sword to a barmaid he never met before), the rest is borderline. Political events often serve as a good backdrop to stories of love and hate, but this one doesn't really pull it off. The love is contrived, the hate/revenge is simplistic, and the politics are downplayed to be predictable to make room for the action. Characters: Here is where the book really stumbles. The characters are so predictable and stereotypical (even for fantasy) that you really don't care who lives or dies. The stoic good-hearted elf, the lovesick young human woman, the stubborn honor-bound dwarf, the evil one-eyed henchmen, etc. At the end an important character dies and I really wasn't moved at all. About halfway through this book I found myself eyeing my shelf for what I wanted to read next, which is not a good sign. Considering how many other (better) Dragonlance books are out there, I would save this one until the end, or just skip it entirely.
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Summary: well?????
Review: great book, I'll take nothing away from it, but the only problem I had with it is that the main character getts permanetly injured, his best friend dies along with almost everyone else. great book if you like realizm
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Summary: This is a great book, worth reading!
Review: If you are really into reading Dragonlance, and have read the original three book, then this book is well worth it. It explanies alot of what happens to the Heros of the Lance between Chronicals 1 and 2.
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Summary: Yet another attempt to cash in on the saga
Review: Like most of the "Dragonlance" books not authored by Weis and Hickman, this novel gives us characters that we never really warm up to and a storyline that doesn't really fall into place with the rest of the series. A total downer and a waste of good wood pulp.
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Summary: Stormblade is a great tale of the lost and found.
Review: Stormblade was a great journey through several novels. The author brought in the characters of Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman well. I really liked Tyorl.
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Summary: The Theft of a Kingsword...
Review: The synopsis above is not entirely correct, I daresay. In the mighty dwarven mountain of Thorbardin, the home of the Dwarves, an aging swordsmith named Isarn sets out to craft his last sword. A wondrous blade it is, but upon it s strange red glow- and the swordsmith and his assistant Stanach realize that this blade has been touched by the dwarved god Reorx. In three-thousand years, such a sword has never been created- a Kingsword. Whoever possesses this blade has the power to rule the dwarves. And as Stanach works on the blade's completion, he is attacked, and the sword is stolen. An evil Dwarven thane (like a joint-governer) has his eyes on the sword, as does the thane for whom the it was made, the rightful owner and kind dwarf, Hornfel. Not to mention the many others who desire this finely-crafted, gem-encrusted work of art. The sword is carried out of Thorbardin and we are swept on a path to recover the sword and save it from falling into sinister hands... An excelle! ! nt book, any fan of the dwarves or Dragonlance in general should have this book. ~Miss Lauren
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Summary: Slow at the beginnig, but greater going ahead
Review: Thi is a strange book to describe: I've read lots of dragonlance books and several times the first 50-100 pages were a little booring because the writer was setting up the situation.
This is one of those...in the first part (120-150)I spent months...I wasn't cought from the story! But Later on it becomes very dinamic, funny and intriguingand I couldn't stop reading. It has an explosive end, but at the very end it introduces something else: the mith of the "Hammer"...and that's, unfortunally, another story!
A story about relation between Halflings, Half Elves, Uman an Dwarves.
Averall it's good book.
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