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Summary: Should not have been written
Review: I just finished reading this book a few hours ago and have to say it left a void in my heart. I am a longtime Dragonlance fan and thoroughly enjoyed the Chronicles and Heroes series. But Summer Flame is really disappointing. I am not sure exactly what the authors were trying to do with this book. I left the world of Krynn knowing Raistlin was sleeping safely in the arms of Caramon, sacrificing himself to save the world...and ultimately himself. Each of the heroes have done their part and now deserve some rest and joy. They did not go forth in their adventures to save the world. Rather, I believe they embarked on their adventures to discover themselves and where they belong in the world of Krynn. With Summer Flame, the world of Krynn has lost the magic. Yes, everyone is still there...but it feels as though there is a big void. It feels as though the world of Krynn has been resurrected from its deep rest and forced to live for a bit longer so the authors can slip another story in. The rich dialog is gone...the little details of each character...gone...the intelligence of characters...gone. It is but an empty world. Raistlin has come back...but with no magic or passion.
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Summary: Must read book. Excellent ending to the chronicles.
Review: I loved the way Raistlin fit into the story. Palin is a character I love to relate to. I don't see how Steel is related to Kitiara and Sturm but that is a good mystery to find out later. For those of you thinking about buying it do so, you won't be disappointed!
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Summary: This is the best squel book i have ever read.
Review: Well, this book is great. It really answers the readers queations about the future once the reader has read chronicles 1-3. And the ending of the book is really good since it leaves the readers wonder what is going to happen to Palin. Also what role will he take in the future Krynn. Well, this is a great book with all the ingredients to make a great book.
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Summary: Dragonlance fans beware!
Review: This was a terrible ending to the Dragonlance series, which, prior to this book, was a masterpiece. I wish it had never been written, quite frankly. It completely sabotages the world of Krynn by eliminating all magic and introducing new religious concepts that are just disgusting. And even worse, it ruins the conclusion of the Dragonlance Legends, which were the perfect ending to the series' most interesting character, Raistlin. The main problem is that Weis and Hickman seem to think the children of their original characters are interesting by virtue of their lineage alone. They're not. Palin is no Raistlin or even Caramon, Steel is no Sturm or Kitiara, and so on. And the character of Usha is just ridiculous. The whole time, you're led to think this hopelessly dull Irda is Raistlin's legendary daughter, only to find out she's not in the end, making the reader wonder, "you mean I suffered through reading about this insufferable character only to learn she has no relevance to the series prior to this at all?" My advice to all Dragonlance fans is to avoid this book and just pretend the series ended with the Legends. If you really need some more Weis and Hickman in your system, read the Death Gate cycle instead (and don't get deterred by the somewhat lagging first book).
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Summary: It seemed way too rushed
Review: From the beginning of this book with the death of Cameron's sons to the sniveling cowardice of Reorx in the face of Chaos (he is a dwarven diety for heaven's sake!), I hated this book. No one was in character and it seemed to me that it was hastily concieved and executed to fulfill some contractual obligation instead of because the authors cared about the story.
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Summary: Depressing but good
Review: This is a great way to end the series. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because it was very depressing and Usha is dumbest, stupidest, most boring and awful character ever invented.
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Summary: THIS BOOK WAS HORRIBLE
Review: If you want to waste 19 bucks as well as spend hours seeing characters that you've loved or hated for years being destroyed(i.e. all the heroes in Dragonlance) then by all means read this book!
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Summary: Unbelivable!!
Review: First and foremost, this book is without question the greatest chronicles edition ever. After a ten year break in the famed chronicles, the story is restarted with Krynn being threatened by two forces: the Knights of Takhisis and Chaos, father of the gods. This novel has it all: the remaining heroes plus their offspring, the gods playing an active role in the storyline, and the writing quality that only Weis and Hickman can offer. I read it in two days. The story was absolutly captivating. Everything from Palin's battle with himself after his brothers' untimly demise, to the return of Raistlin from the abyss, to the final titanic battle versus Chaos and his mimions. It was also nice to see a god besides Paladine intervene in the characters' adventures. I got a kick out of how much Reorx reminded me of Flint's personality: that rough, grandfatherly type of additude. The new characters such as Palin, Usha, and Steel are a fine addition to the story. Steel does a great job of showing the reader that even though a person may be evil, he can still be honorable. Lord Ariakin also conveys this message. I found Palin to be a young Raistlin in many respects, although he lacks some of his sinister personality My old favorites such as Tanis, Tas, Caramon, and Tika are also present and help give the book a more Dragonlance flavor. One of the sadder points in the book is the death of two of my favorite characters(I won't blow it for those who haven't read it yet.) Although this was inevitable, it did add to the storyline quite a bit. All and all, this is a masterpeice of Dragonlance literature. For all Dragonlance fans, this is a must-read!!
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Summary: Arbitrary end to great saga.
Review: This writing duo has created works of incredible imagination and scope, keeping many readers captivated and astonished at the thought provoking intricacies of their novels. Unfortunately this book is not one of those novels. The father of the gods come to destroy his children idea has been pounded into the ground by myth and fiction. I blame TSR more than the writers, as it does not seem like something they would willingly do with their world. I have an image of some TSR people saying to the writers, "We need to make Dragonlance different from our other worlds, do something drastic, like kill all of the characters you have made and the gods, too. Yeah, that's it...kill the gods." Maybe W&H felt that since TSR was going to alter the world to make way for a new RPG system, they might as well be the ones to do it, as no one else could do it properly. The idea is so arbitrary that even the creators of the world themselves could not salvage it. That is all this books seems like to me, a forced ending to make room for the Fifth Age Dragonlance RPG, not a work of one of the most imaginative teams writing today.
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Summary: If you don't think of it as a Dragonlance novel...
Review: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman wind up the Chronicles Series with this book, but it failed to carry the same flavour as "Dragons of Spring Dawning". It would have been nice to mix some people who were no way connected to the old companions in. It feels like a comic book - Captain Majere and Sturm-Man's children have superpowers too, and they save the world (well, this isn't what happens, but it feels like that). Chaos is portrayed as a good villain, but he isn't chaos - he's evil! All in all, if you look it as a fiction novel, it's marginally better than if you look at it in context with the other Dragonlance books.
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