Rating: 
Summary: Excellent - If you've read the rest of the series!
Review: I can understand the low rating if you have not read the other books in the series. A lot of the plot has much to do with the history of the darksword. Unless, you already know some of that history, this book could be very difficult to follow. I, on the other hand, have read the series and this book is an excellent closure for the trilogy. I enjoyed it immensly.
Rating: 
Summary: Fun, but not worthy of the DarkSword series
Review: I enjoyed the book and hope the authors do more "quick-read" novels like this from time to time, but for a work that bears the DarkSword name, it was a disappointment. It was no where near as inspiring, thought-provoking, or epic as the original Trilogy (I'm the only Weis & Hickman fan I know of who enjoyed the DarkSword trilogy even more than DragonLance and DeathGate). I liked the ending to the original trilogy with its mixed-feeling conclusion. Legacy of the Darksword is a lot more "comic-bookish" and would have been better off as a stand-alone novel with its own characters and story-line rather than adding to the DarkSword Trilogy.
Rating:
Summary: Fun, but not worthy of the DarkSword series
Review: I enjoyed the book and hope the authors do more "quick-read" novels like this from time to time, but for a work that bears the DarkSword name, it was a disappointment. It was no where near as inspiring, thought-provoking, or epic as the original Trilogy (I'm the only Weis & Hickman fan I know of who enjoyed the DarkSword trilogy even more than DragonLance and DeathGate). I liked the ending to the original trilogy with its mixed-feeling conclusion. Legacy of the Darksword is a lot more "comic-bookish" and would have been better off as a stand-alone novel with its own characters and story-line rather than adding to the DarkSword Trilogy.
Rating: 
Summary: Not their best, but well worth reading.
Review: I enjoyed the book. I didn't feel that the view of the future presented in this book was all that unreasonable. Again, so they didn't mention television. It doesn't mean it didn't exit. Saryon was an intellectual. It stands to reason that he'd prefer radio and the www over t.v.I'll be the first to admit that the book wasn't as good as the trilogy, but it was a lot better than many "pass the torch" books I've read. I shook my head at many parts of the book, but it kept me interested all the way through and introduced some new characters to keep things going. Again, it's not their best, but I still feel it's worth reading.
Rating:
Summary: Not bad for a sequel.
Review: I love Weis & Hickman. True, this was not the best they have ever done, but it was creative. They made different timelines and kept me turning pages. I say if you're a fan of their's, read it
Rating:
Summary: A great start to a great trillogy
Review: I thought this book was great. As good as the Dragonlance books (although i see some of you don't agree ;) ) I thought it was good, i would recomend it to any fantasy fan.
Rating:
Summary: A great start to a great trillogy
Review: I thought this book was great. As good as the Dragonlance books (although i see some of you don't agree ;) ) I thought it was good, i would recomend it to any fantasy fan.
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Summary: The Darksword Trilogy
Review: I thought this trilogy was awsome. Can't really say anything else about it. It starts off kinda slow but its nessisary for the back story. If you can make to to book 3, thats when it get really crazy.
Rating: 
Summary: Oh god the horror.
Review: I was passing through the bookstore, looking for something to read on a flight home, and I had (at the time) what I took to be a happy accident, and came upon this book. When I first read the series as a boy, I was entranced by it. I found the characters both compelling and believable, and the world set up by W&H had a marvelous history and a delightful take on things. With these thoughts in mind, I began reading. "Legacy of the Darksword" is a shambling zombie of a sequel, keeping the facade of the original story, but possessed with none of the life, and burdenedd with a grinning rictus of a plot that frightens every literary bone in my body. Characters we once loved are brought back, but utterly lack any appeal, perhaps due in no small part to the book's point of view, the ultra-bland scribe-mute Reuven. Scenes that _ought_ to exude potency and importance are done ham-handedly. We see the meeting of Joram and Saryon after so many years -- and it's just so sloppily done! So little passion, so much drab. Joram's daughter, the "generic willful fantasy daughter" is moderately interesting at best. She has gone through none of the trials or horrors that marked Joram's character -- her presence is a continual "So what?" Fleeing from the protagonists, one might think that there is hope to be had in the villain's corner. If only it were so! The main menace in the book is a race of aliens we never see, and a bad guy 'technomancer' who we see only in the book's conclusion, to give _some_ face to the bad guys. (Too bad he's 'generic bad guy') With all this said about the characters, you might hope for some saving gracing from the plot. Ha! It's a herky jerky sequence, tied together by chance, an indecisive scribe, and (literally!) deux ex machina. All these horrible things happen at a breakneck pace, so there's zero time to develop character, theme, or even point. I read the soft cover in less than three hours -- the Almin help the people who bought the hardback! My final rumination on the subject: Why do W&H keep writing books like this? Earlier in their career, they wrote intriguing series, with rich, detailed characters, often in challenging settings, set against worlds that crackled with life and energy. For some macabre reason, they seem compelled to write sequels to these series, and so far, they seem to be batting a thousand when it comes to taking worlds we all love, then writing a single, rushed book to destroy everything we loved about said worlds. (*Cough* dragons of summer flame *cough*). If it's money, maybe we should take up some sort of fund, so they can spend their time writing something good.
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Summary: Selling Out!!!
Review: I'm not sure why authors feel they have to wrap up a story, nice and neat, and then, years later, write yet another ending. Here is a typical example. The Darksword Trilogy is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated science-fiction trilogies. I laughed. I cried. I learned a lot about myself. The ending of this trilogy was complete. It was ambiguous. The mystery lay in the fact that you never knew what happened to Joram (people who have read these novels know what I am talking about; for people who haven't, I don't want to give away the ending. Now, for some inexplicable reason, we visit Joram 20 years later, because of a second Darksword??? And what's the deal with Mosiah becoming a Duksarith (excuse the spelling)??? What is going on here??? Do we care? No. Joram's daughter has the same moody temperament as her father, but without the struggles he went through, she just is annoying. In short, Weis, Hickman, take a hiatus, regroup, and come up with! plotlines and characters with more depth than a daisy air rifle. Until then, step off, or you will soon be kicked to the literary curb.
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