Rating: 
Summary: A boring series
Review: I was almost tempted to give this book 2 stars but I only do that to really, really bad books.Like the 1st book in the series, this book was too long word wise. Too many useless description, too little interesting plot movement. Unfortunately, this one didn't even had interesting characters like the 1st one. There's little good to say about this book. There were a few good scenes but not good enough to make the book remotely readable. This series looked & sounded so intriguing I couldn't wait to read it. I'm very disappointed & feel cheated - a feeling I'm not used to when reading DL. After about 180 pages, I just scanned the rest to get it over with.
Rating: 
Summary: Who's yer daddy?
Review: Noooooooo! Tanis' son? Who is his mother? When did this happen?Did I miss a book somewhere? Be that as it may, this is an excellentbook. You really get the feel for Palanthas, see its sights, smell itssmells. The characters, even Cael, are fantastic, and the descriptionsare extraordinary. The thieves' test in the sewers of Palanthas wasgreat...! The book is a little slow going at first, but once Cael getscaptured by the guild, it never stops. I can't wait for thesequel. There is going to be a sequel?
Rating: 
Summary: An Entertaining Read
Review: The Thieves Guild by Jeff Crook details the rise and fall of a great crime network and how the most skilled of thieves survive through the adversity. In the huge metropolis of Palanthas, Cael Ironstaff, son of the revered Tanis Half-Elven, takes up residency as a cutpurse ready to compete for the great treasures of an ancient city. Yet his overwhelming confidence, marvelous skill, and dashing charm can only take him so far... I liked The Thieves Guild because it gave me an intricate and pleasing image of Palanthas, my favorite city in the world of Dragonlance. Crook describes the social structure and customs in a way as not to bore the reader and in fact, moves the plot very quickly filling it with exciting and meaningful action. The first and final chapters are each slightly separated from the rest of the book and provide a nice acclimation to the plot and closure. The Thieves Guild is a solid fantasy book with all the major elements of such: fast action, involved plot, and a special characteristic uniqueness marking the work as Crook's own. Like most books of the genre, the middle portion of the plot dips slightly into being boring but this ends quickly. I recommend The Thieves Guild to anyone interested in good, solid, fantasy, especially those keen to the Dragonlance universe.
Rating:
Summary: An Entertaining Read
Review: The Thieves Guild by Jeff Crook details the rise and fall of a great crime network and how the most skilled of thieves survive through the adversity. In the huge metropolis of Palanthas, Cael Ironstaff, son of the revered Tanis Half-Elven, takes up residency as a cutpurse ready to compete for the great treasures of an ancient city. Yet his overwhelming confidence, marvelous skill, and dashing charm can only take him so far... I liked The Thieves Guild because it gave me an intricate and pleasing image of Palanthas, my favorite city in the world of Dragonlance. Crook describes the social structure and customs in a way as not to bore the reader and in fact, moves the plot very quickly filling it with exciting and meaningful action. The first and final chapters are each slightly separated from the rest of the book and provide a nice acclimation to the plot and closure. The Thieves Guild is a solid fantasy book with all the major elements of such: fast action, involved plot, and a special characteristic uniqueness marking the work as Crook's own. Like most books of the genre, the middle portion of the plot dips slightly into being boring but this ends quickly. I recommend The Thieves Guild to anyone interested in good, solid, fantasy, especially those keen to the Dragonlance universe.
Rating:
Summary: winner
Review: This book just won the Darrell Award for best science fiction, fantasy, or horror for 2000.
Rating: 
Summary: Boring
Review: This book needed a lot more work before being published. Firstly, the character point of view used is so distant that it is impossible to get any emotional relationship with the characters. Even when they do something interesting, they don't seem to be acting out of any motivation than that the plot needs it.
The writing style is full of cliche.
There are too many mysteries about the main character that are mentioned, then forgetten, the answers to which you can't even guess at. The villians are boring, and heros just peole who are there.
When there is an attempt to create something truly fantastic, it is surrounded by boring charaters, and enshrouded in so much mystery that it just seems silly. All the powers of the staff are stupid, we're supposed to beleive here's this guy and he has the most powerful thing ever made, this thing can put the staff of Magius to shame, but the guy just has, given to him by his Shalafi. Throughout the book were told he's taught how to fight by his shalafi, given the staff by his Shalafi. It's not fantastic writing, just silly, not believable. And the nonsense that he's Tanin's son. Instead of creating a charater that has an interesting points at all, the guy just claims to be Tanis's son, as if we should belive that (By his age we know that Tanis would have had to cheat on Laurana and I don't accept that) it's not said he's Tanis's son, the character claims it, but whether or not it's true has no impact on the story.
It's just so boring. Sol Stein who has written some amazing books on writing fiction says the job of the writer is to evoke emotion in the reader. At no part of the book is there any attempt to evoke any emotion. Perhaps we are supposed to get wrapped up in the action seens, but that are so contrived.
I only wrote this because I read the book after reading the other reviews. There are so many good books out there, read something written by an accomplished writer. I don't like saying bad things about writters, but Jeff Cook does not seem ready for novel writing, and this book remids me why I stoped reading every dragonlance book out there. Some of it's great, but the rest is just mass produced garbage that's made because TSR know if publish so many dragonlance books, they'll have so many sales.
Rating:
Summary: The Thieves' Guild Dragonlance
Review: This book was ++++ I couldn't set it down once I'd started it. A definite look into the Thieves' Guild. The author has left it open for a sequel, I can only hope that they follow up on this story line. The Crossroads series is definetly one of the better Dragonlance series.
Rating:
Summary: The Thieves' Guild Dragonlance
Review: This book was ++++ I couldn't set it down once I'd started it. A definite look into the Thieves' Guild. The author has left it open for a sequel, I can only hope that they follow up on this story line. The Crossroads series is definetly one of the better Dragonlance series.
Rating:
Summary: Exciting, intriguing novel
Review: This is the story of Cael Ironstaff, a freelance thief, who stumbles into the shadowy world of the thieves' guild. Without ruining too much, this story of thievery and betrayal is top notch and shouldn't be passed over. Like volume one of the Crossroad's Series, volume two doesn't fail to impress. Highly Recommened.
Rating:
Summary: Exciting, intriguing novel
Review: This is the story of Cael Ironstaff, a freelance thief, who stumbles into the shadowy world of the thieves' guild. Without ruining too much, this story of thievery and betrayal is top notch and shouldn't be passed over. Like volume one of the Crossroad's Series, volume two doesn't fail to impress. Highly Recommened.
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