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Summary: I liked it!
Review: A good book if you can get through the first hundred pages or so. Very deep characters, as well as some you just can't quite figure out (such as Simkin) push the story along. Read this book!
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Summary: The first of the trilogy, it is somewhat slow.
Review: Being the first in a trilogy, it is somewhat slow, due to the fact it has to explain everything about the world. I liked the book and I would recommend it. The one good thing about this book, is that you never know what to expect. And everytime you think you do, you don't! Taking place where magic abilities is a prerequisite, it is very hard to survive otherwise. But Joram somehow does! This book tells the tale of his early life
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: Dont get me wrong.. Im quite thankful for Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman for introducing me to the world of dragonlance.. since then Ive been reading a lot of sci fi books.. especially books written by them and other authors (jordan,goodkind,eddings pratchett,etc).However I was bitterly disappointed with this book.. there seems to be something missing from it that makes it a great book to read.. after a few chapters i just kept reading through it bored and wishing the story gets interesting as i go further but sadly, it doesnt. The story itself didnt have that spark in terms of enticing the reader to know more, the mood itself was bland and the characters dull. I was expecting more from the authors that started me to enjoy reading.
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Summary: Interesting storyline, but shallow writing
Review: Good ideas, good settings, but the best thing about the novels was the characters, who were interesting and fairly well developed. However, the writing was shallow and talentless, and the story lacked energy.
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Summary: A great book
Review: Hickman and Weis prove that they can do more than Dragonlance. Joram is the son of the Empress who is deemed to bring about the end of the know world. In this first book he is introduced to what it is like to feel for someone else. Saryon confused by the use of the dark arts is sent after him to deliver him back to Vanya for punishment. A great book which has a good flow to it.
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Summary: A 3/4 Fan
Review: I absolutley loved this book!
However, I have a major beef with the trilogy.
3/4 of this trilogy is great, however all of the books were completely ruined when the tanks and armed soldiers showed up.
I hate it when fantasy writers try to merge the modern world with a fantasy world. I see it as the worst cop out, perhaps even worse than the "it was only a dream" ending.
If they could have just changed this one thing, this would have been so much better.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I had this trilogy for a long time before i actually got down to reading it, I had hte feeling that it would betoo weird for my taste. Then when I actually read it my mind was blown a way, this book is awesome!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I had this trilogy for a long time before i actually got down to reading it, I had hte feeling that it would betoo weird for my taste. Then when I actually read it my mind was blown a way, this book is awesome!
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Summary: Don't waste your retinas
Review: I have to say, this is the worst book series I have ever read that was intended for people over the age of ten. I wish I could have given it a "zero star" rating. The character design seemed relatively good, considering as soon as they think or do any action what so ever the characters instantly turn into cardboard. The plot, although somewhat interesting at the beginning (the first book was the most ...palatable of the trilogy), faded dramatically. At the last fifty pages, I was completely on what I would like to call "auto-read" --basically, I turned the pages and tried not to fall asleep. Somehow, somehow, I finished it, and then I immediately picked up a Wheel of Time book to recover. If you are completely dead set on reading a Hickman/Weis book, read their Dragonlance works. Although they can't compare with the literary mastery of Robert Jordan or George R. R. Martin, they're something to pass the time with until your Amazon.com order comes in!
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Summary: Why didn't I give up on reading this sooner?
Review: I read Forging the Darksword, Doom of the Darksword, and finally Triumph of the Darksword, wanting to know how it would come out, and hoping, expecting, that it would get better. It did not. The pace drags, the plot fails to hang together, and the characters fail to become real. It was a waste of time reading these, when I could at least have been rereading other, better books in this genre.
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