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Summary: THIS IS A GREAT START TO A NEW SERIES!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is the start of the "twins" series. This book starts Raist quest to defeat the Dark Queen and Caramons quest to save a soul. The cleric of palidine, Crysinia, falls into this story. She has a quest of her own, to so something big for Krynn, and unfortunatly falls right into Raist's cleverly laid trap. Raist travels back in time to find and defeat Fistandaltius, the greatest wizard in the history of Krynn.
Raist tell his half sister and the leader of the dragonarmies on Krynn of his plans. Kitara decides that Raist is nuts so she sicks her death knight, Lord Soth, on Crysinia. This is because the only way Raist can get into the Abyss, where the Dark Queen lives is to open an portal. The ancient wizards that made the portals tried to seal them by making the only way to open them by a holy cleric of palidine of infinite goodness and a powerful wizard of the black robes of infinite evil working together. This the ancient wizards thought was impossibe so the thought the portals were safe from harm. Little did they know that their great plan would be over come by none other than love. For of cource Crysinia falls in love with Raist.
Anyway back to the story. Crysinia calls on palidins aid and he protects his cleric in the only way he can, by taking her spirit to him. The only way for Crysinia to be reserected is for a powerful cleric to call on palinins aid and put her soul back in her body. The clerics of that era dont have enough power to bring Crysinia back. Only the Kingpriest and his followers had that power and of cource that was when Raist wanted Crysinia to be. The great Par-salin sends her, with Caramon, back to several months before the catalysm. Tas and his unbelievibly inquizitive nature gets into the spell and goes with them. This of cource causes problems. Only the humans elves and ogeres are allowed to travel in time. Any other race will have the ability to alter time.
As you can see this is an interesting book so get it and read it. It is great!!!!!!!!!!1
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Summary: I've Sworn Off Abridged Works
Review: I listen to a lot of books. Usually over 40 hours a week (yes, it is full time job!!!). I usually avoid abridged works but picked this one up because of a friend who really enjoyed the book.
I got soooo lost. Things were too abridged, conversations and situations were way too short, and I had trouble following the story. In fact, I've given up after the first tape (that's HALF THE STORY!!!). I mean, people were killed and others being healed and thing would change so quickly I couldn't remember who was who and had done what.
If you want to enjoy this book, get the book. From what I've heard, this really is a great story especially for those totally lost in the world of Dragonlance. If you like Dragonlance a lot, don't waste your time reading this abridged stuff. Either read the book or wait for the full version to come out.
If I could say one good thing about this audiobook is that it is done with a caste of characters so that certain voices went with certain characters. I've really liked stories like that. Listen to the His Dark Materials works by Philip Pullman for a perfect example of how this should be done.
But why people waste time making abridged works is beyond my comprehension. Is the extra cost really that troublesome? I would have bought the other two books, I'm sure.
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Summary: Interesting read
Review: I haven't read any other of the Dragonlance series, but loved The Sovereign Stone trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, so when I saw this at Walmart I had to check it out. The plot centers around Crysania(a cleric), Caramon(a warrior turned into a pathetic drunk), Tas(pickpocket,comic relief character) and Raistlin(evil wizard who's the brother of Caramon). Cysania thinks she is called by god to save Raistlin's and sets out with some guy named Tanis to go to his tower. After visiting his hometown, Tanis goes to a funeral telling Cysania to wait for him. She dosen't and one of his friends who is married to Caramon makes Caramon go after her saying that she won't accept him back till he finds her. Caramon meets an old friend named Tas and they set out. Caramon is more concerned about getting drunk than searching and after they find Crysania he isn't able to fight when they are attacked and Crysania ends up getting injured. In a sort of dream state Crysania meets with Raistlin who tricks her into thinking he isn't as bad as he is and they eventually fall in love(she does anyway, you'll see for yourself if he does). He also tells her of his plan to go back in time to become a god. Meanwhile, Caramon and Tas meet with some mage who says the only way to heal Crysania and stop Raistlin is to go back in time. So they do. Well, that's the basics of the plot. Any more would spoil it. All the characters serve their purpose well. Raistlin is a tricky villian and I wasn't able to figure out what he would do. Caramon is interesting and plays the driving force of the story well. Tas is very funny. The only character I didn't really like was Crysania who was kind of your atypical cleric character. The ending of the book is a cliffhanger and I can't wait to see what happened in the next volume. Overall, this dosen't reinvent the fantasy genre and isn't the greatest book ever, but definitly is worth reading after you've gotten past the obligatory Wheel of Time, Song of Fire and Ice, Sword of Truth, and Lord of the Rings series.
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Summary: AMAZING!!!
Review: The Legends Trilogy- the Time of The Twins, the War of the Twins, and Test of the Twins, is the sequel to The Chronicles Trilogy- Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning, which brings to life the ultimate battle between Good and Evil in the magical World of Krynn. The books are so incredibly well written that the reader feels that they have been transported to another plane of existence and are actually present among the characters, seeing what they see, feeling what they feel, sensing what they sense. The authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have truly outdone themselves and have presented us with a masterpiece of literature the likes of which we have seen only in JRR Tolkien's work and RA Salvatore's The Dark Elf and Icewind Dale trilogies. Duty, honor, bravery, magic, dragons and heroes are all about. One should seriously start thinking about maybe turning them into movies...
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Summary: History in the making!
Review: Well this was a very interestig read. Having finished the Chronicles Trilogy this book Time of the Twins drops you into some back history of two or even three of your favorite characters: Cameron, Raistland, and that stealing future changing kender, Tas!
Very interesting and worth the time and money...well though out.
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Summary: a little slow in the middle, but good
Review: Time of the Twins is the first book in the dragolance trilogy legends. It takes place two years after the war of the lance; the races in the land are coming to peace and the dragon armies are scattered, but this book really isn't about that, it's about Raistlin and Caramon, the twins who are nothing alike. There is also Tasslehoff and a new face Crysania, revered daughter of Paladine. Time of the twins, starts off rather slow and tons of information is tossed out, information which is pretty important in the story. Time of the twins is less action-adventure and more dramatic than that of the chronicles, which I enjoy way more, Time of the Twins that is. This book is also way better than anything the chronicles came out with. It's more mature, theres more character development (largely due to the fact that there are only 4 main characters instead of 8 or 9), and the actually characters are more fun to read about, than that of the chronicles. But there are some things which I didn't like, as a matter of fact, I thought were absolutly ridiculous. Such as the direction the of story, After they all went back in time, it felt like it was to slow and pointless. The whole Caramon attracted to the gladiator girl was pointless, pretty much the whole thing with Caramon in the gladiator school was pointless, other than him getting pumped up. I think the only reason why this part was in the book is because Weis and hickman needed to throw some action into this adventure or they had to have some one get captured, it's their trademark. Whatever reason was, the part was to long and nothing really can out of it, which made the book drag. All in all this book was pretty good, Raistlin was cool, caramon was very interesting, in the beginning....and the end, I guess. If you have read the chronicles already and like them, this is the next book, so have-at-it.
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Summary: Time of The Twins
Review: The War of the Lance is over, the world once again at peace. Goldmoon and Riverwind fade into history, happily married, and Tanis and Laurana are firmly together in spite of Kitiara's shadow. Caramon, however, cannot get over Raistlin's decision and is slowly destroying both himself and his marriage to Tika. Having hit rock bottom, he finds a glimmer of hope when Tasslehoff, more or less recovered from his terrible grief over Flint's death, arrives with Lady Crysania - a Cleric of Paladine who has met with Raistlin and has a plan to save the Mage's soul. Caramon sets out with Crysania, Tas, and a secret weapon, but is forced to turn to Par Salian - the mage who conducted Raistlin's test so long ago - for help due to unforseen events. He must travel back in time to find help for a wounded Crysania and perhaps stop the evil mage Fistandantilus from ever possessing Raistlin during his test - a simple enough task for the powerful Par Salian, as long as a member of the magical races - Dwarves, Gnomes and Kender - is not involved, as they can alter time should they travel through it. One guess who follows him in a fit of curiosity (and to be fair, genuine concern)... The deed and possible damage done, Caramon races to find either Raistlin or Fistandantilus - or both - without knowing if Tasslehoff's presence has effected a positive or negative change. This is quite a change from the Chronicles, much more intimate in scope and more about the relationships between a handful of people. Some readers will be shocked at the state Caramon's in as the story begins, but it's not really surprising when you take a moment to consider everything you know about the twin's relationship up to this point. Watching him pull himself back together is quite interesting. We also see what the taking of the Black Robes really means for Raistlin, as we start to unravel his intentions towards his brother and Crysania - as well as a now dangerous Tasslehoff. The real pleasant surprise to me, however, was Tas - ironically now the oblivious and innocent major threat to Raistlin's plans (an inspired twist that will obviously have major implications). I was curious as to where the writers could go with him without Flint, but there turned out to be no need for worry. His relationship with Caramon in this entry borders on downright fascinating as, from lack of any alternative, he acts as his friend's protector, sole emotional support, tough-love dispenser, sounding board and conscience. All this - and it ends with a cliffhanger that left those of us who brought it when it was first released reeling in shock as War of the Twins wasn't released until a few months later. Bottom line - anyone who liked Chronicles won't want to miss Legends either.
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