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Summary: Suprisingly a disappointment
Review: I was disappointed in the conclusion of this book. Many of the companions that we have come to know and love meet an unfitting fate. Heros are killed off uselessly and dishonored. I loved the trilogy. It is the best 3 books I have ever read but this one is very poorly written. It appears as if the authors were rushed to finish this book. I did not like the finale to the heros of Krynn.
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Summary: It was a nice visit, but I miss the original companions
Review: While this book was very well written and a fun read, I cannot tell you how much I miss the original companions. I have kept every book about the Dragonlance Saga and every year or so I will pick it up and read them again. Margaret Wiess and Tracy Hickmann are a writing force to not be be reckoned with. I also have the Art of the Dragonlance book and everytime I see the picture of Sturm, lying on the castle wall after being slain by Kitiara, my throat catches. Their other series, The DeathGate Cycle, is another one of my favorites. I hope to see more dragon/magic fantacy novels from them in the future. In the back of my mind I always hoped they would make a Star Wars/Lord of the Rings movie series based on the books. Hmmm....who would play which characters?
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Summary: The End of Krynn?
Review: Since Dragonlance Legends ended, and Weis and Hickman left for bigger and better things, there have been few Dragonlance books that were truly enthralling as Legends and Chronicles. A few of the anthologies had a couple of good stories. In a couple of the short stories written by Weis and Hickman, we get introduced to some of the children the Heroes of the Lance. Hooray for the return of Weis and Hickman! They use these children as the main characters of Dragons of Summer Flame. Fate has pulled these children together to fight against something greater than the heroes fought against. The heroes fought against the Takhisis, the Dark Queen. Their children fight against a threat that Takhisis, Paladine, and Gilean all fear. Be prepared to say goodbye to old friends, hello to "friends" you thought long gone, and radical changes to the World of Krynn that will effect all the books that follow in the Dragonlance series.
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Summary: Mixed reviews (read on)
Review: My brother loved this book, I didn't really care for it that much. Here are our opinions: K (age 12): Five stars. I think this book made the readers think more than any other Dragonlance book. Even though they killed one of my favorite (vertically challenged) characters, it was still one of the, if not the, best Dragonlance books. G (age 18): Three stars. While this book isn't devoid of action or any literary merit, it certainly doesn't do the Dragonlance saga justice. It seems as if Weiss and Hickman wanted to end the series as quickly as possible, and in pursuit of that goal managed to cram the entire rewriting of the Dragonlance world into one book. Dragons of Summer Flame should have been a trilogy; witness the brevity of the confrontation at the High Clerists Tower. That outcome was more of an "oh well" than anything. And as far as the outcome of the book as a whole, I was disappointed. It leaves nothing for future speculation or adventure in the simply un-fantastic world of post-Summer Flame Krynn.
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Summary: Weis and Hickman's "Scorched Earth" policy.
Review: For those unfamiliar with the term, a "scorched earth" policy is when a defeated army, leaving a previously occupied territory, destroys all the resources of said territory, in the spirit of "If we can't have it, no one can." Weis and Hickman did this with "Dragons of Summer Flame". They killed off at least 8 major characters, leaving the writers of this "Fifth Age" nonsense only a select few established heroes to work with. They removed magic from Krynn, and the moons that brought it. (One begins to wonder if they haven't just found an easy way to make Krynn a pre-civilization Earth)And for some insipid reason like Mary Weis felt a need to "say goodbye" Raistlin returned from the Abyss, only to provide nothing of substance. I could truly envision, after reading this book, Weis and Hickman sitting around a table, saying "How can we make this book as awful as possible?" I can also see writers wailing and gnashing teeth, having to create fantasy novels in a world devoid of fantasy. This book is a damned shame. This book is a waste of trees. It ruins the saga, which, up till this point, has been excellent. And really, what gives Mary Weis and Tracy Hickman the right to pervert Dragonlance? They aren't the only writers involved here. Oh, well... Anyway, to get the full Dragonlance experience, read the original Chronicles Trilogy, the Legends Trilogy, the Second Generation, and then STOP! Read Dragons of Summer Flame only if you want the series to go up in smoke, courtesy of a vindictive scorched earth policy.
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Summary: WOW
Review: After reading some 40 odd Dragonlance Novels, and other assorted stuff(Ie comics, Modules) I was amazed and saddend by this book. I read all 700+ pages in about 36 hours. I couldn't put it down. It brings closure to the Dragonlance Saga like I never expected. It's been about a year since I read it but it's still crisp in my mind after reading only a few reviews. This book was not pointless but rather brought everything together to a climatic end. If you have read the second generation book and the Chronicles then this book will bring it around full circle. However before you read this book you may want to read some of the other eariler books in the series also.. Such as Legends, the tales books and the Heros books for a flesh out of the ideology of the Humans on Krynn and the Elven Nations Trilology was my favorite non-War of the Lance Series.
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Summary: Miserable book that shouldn't have been written
Review: Why did they write this book? My theory is that there was some contractual obligation here so Weis and Hickman thrashed Dragonlance. How this book got published is beyond me. TSR must have wanted that cash bad. This book is the worst example of authors tearing down a house because they don't like living there anymore. How much more milk can they try to squueze out of Raistlin? STAY AWAY!!!! This is the Highlander 2 of novels.
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Summary: Interesting history lesson, but very dissapointing
Review: I was so excited to read this book and all (or most) of the characters i have come to love in Krynn. So instead i read about Palin, who was boring yet the most interesting of the three new heroes. Steele sucked. and Usha could have been much better. What i got out of it was the history of the creation of Krynn. That's all i really liked about it. More problems - Disabeling Raistlin seemed just too convienent for the plot. Oh, and after everything is said and done for, we get some wussy world with no resemblance to the one we all love. The only thing worth mentioning is that it will make an impact on you one way or the other. END
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Summary: Petty grudge, maybe?
Review: We all knew the authors were mad at TSR, and TSR needed a bridge to go into their Fifth Age DL material, thus we get Dragons of Summer Flame: A novel that manages to kill (or at least maim) all the characters that the reader might actually care about. (and even here they only care because of previous works) Palin is boring, Raistlin is interesting, but he's disabled and just wastes away. And killing off Tas in that redicious manner...revolting. In summation, this book can't stand on its own and seems to be little more than a way to lead dragonlance readers into the "Fifth Age" by ruining magic. Sad, and not recommended.
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Summary: Anawsome bookand a great conscription ofthe second cataclysm
Review: I thought that this book should be read immediately by all dragonlance fans who haven't read it yet. It tells a great story about Usha, child of the Irda, being cast out from the island of her homeland, and into the busy city of Palanthas. she undergoes more events than anyone with such a lack of experience should have to. but then she meets the whiterobed mage, Palin, and it all seems to become fine. and at the end, the fateful battle against Chaos, the Father of All and Nothing, in the Abyss.
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