The Eve of the Maelstrom

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Summary: A failure to keep up with the old standards.
Review: The book was not bad, however, it lacked many simple logical parts, for example, why, in the world would the dragons be attacked, when they all are together? In my opinion, it is not that hard to fake a attack of one dragon on another dragon's realm, then we have a two-three month Dragon Purge, a couple of dragons left over and then, just finish them up. Also I would recommend anyone to read this book only, if he can borrow it from his friend or local library. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON IT!

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Summary: Shallow, dull, and plenty of filler
Review: Honestly, Rabe could have done MUCH better. Did you notice that 50 pages of the book was merely Dhamon and crew on the boat fighting? It was horrible. "Dhamon ducked, sliced, and then came round while Rig...". That one on for quite some time. Spare me this filler. The other parts were dull, and historically incorrect. Palin, the world's most powerful sorcerer, seemed to be equal in power with all those Skull (thorn?) knights. Magic's gone! The whole quest is to restore magic! Yet they STILL have as much power as before already! sigh.....

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Summary: What happened here?
Review: I've read and bought every dragonlance novel ever published. And for that very same reason, i also read/bought these dissapointing fifth age books. I mean seriously folks, besides the twins books and a couple of others, all of the dragon lance books were pretty dismal. (books about every race possible... even the gully dwarfs) I was entirely surprised when the sea elves got there own book. *sigh* I was happy when Summer Flame came out, because i thought that it was over, but no... now there is fifth age. All I ask is for TSR (or should I say WOTC) to get another writer (say terry brooks or goodkind) to pencil in a couple of series to rekindle the dragonlance fire.

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Summary: How far Dragonlance has fallen
Review: I bought Dragons of Summer Flame and the entire 5th Age trilogy thinking that finally the Dragonlance saga was going to move forward. Flame was fairly good, but 5th Age was a huge disappointment. The characters failed to intrigue me. The plot was sometimes nonsensical, like Rabe was forcing the book to go a certain direction without any logical reason for the characters' actions. The climactic battle in Eve of the Maelstrom was absurd. I'm done with Dragonlance until Weis and Hickman's new trilogy comes out.

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Summary: GREAT!!!!!!
Review: I started to read the book cause of the cover, but it turned out to be a great book, non-stop action, what realy sucked about the book was it's ending, it left everything open. I hope this wasn't the end, I hope the end the fifth age with all questions answered, not open.

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Summary: Keep Trying
Review: Yet again, I'm sorry for this. Why would a 500 ft., aspiring to become a god, magically talented dragon be vanquished by a normal guy and a girl with a helmet that functions as a squirt gun? Why would people wait to go after dragons when they're all together? WHY DID ANYONE LET THIS BOOK GET PUBLISHED???? I apologize if I offended anyone.

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Summary: Good, yet bad
Review: In this the last book of the Dawning of A New Age trilogy, is a good ending to it. To make it simple, the heros Dhamon, Rig, Blister, Groller, Feril, Palin, Usha, Ulin, Gilanthas, Silvara, and Fury, continue the battle against the Dragon Overlords and the unfortunate loss of one of them,(not Dhamon) but the return of a important classic Character. For those of you who have read this trilogy know that Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman are working on a new trilogy to begin where Jean left off. If you have any comments or questions e-mail me or add me to your ICQ. (if you have it.)I am known as Stonegrinder on ICQ.

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Summary: An intriguing "new beginning".
Review: Eve of the Maelstorm was an incredible start to a next generation.I felt it established credible heroes , as well as telling a great story.On top of that , we are left wondering,What or who is the wolf?,where is Skie?,and what will draw the companions back together?. I believe the only real drawback lies with the fact that you can't truly appreciate the story without being familiar with Krynns past. But all in alll, I personally look forword to the continuation of the new companions adventures.

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Summary: Very Good needed a little more info
Review: I liked the book alot i finished it in a matter of hours.I feel that many questions were unanswered,but that is neccessary to leave questions to be answered in futher novels.My fave character is the Shadow dragon and Dhamon.

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Summary: Poor introduction to the Fifth Age
Review: This was supposed to be the last book in the trilogy. However, it failed to wrap up many of the mysteries presented in the first two novels. In fact, it seemed to generate even more questions at the end then it answered. Case and point (trying not to spoil the story), the wolf changing when hit by a dragonclaw. Was it a wolf or something more? Perhaps the creature that deafened Growler in the first place acting as a guardian? Unless the author intended on developing these characters in later single novels, then reading these stories was a complete waste of time.