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Summary: First book I ever threw in the trash...
Review: I hated this book. The writing was terrible, the story was disappointing, and the characters were all boring. I am a big fan of Dragonlance and I have a great respect for books and literature, but this book was so bad that I had to throw it in the garbage. I have never thrown a book away in my life. I normally cannot bring myself to do so because I feel someone else may be able to benefit from the reading. But in this case I couldn't help it. I would read this book each morning on my train ride to work. Each day I would get more and more fed up with the [junk] the author had written. Finally, one day I got off the train and threw the book into a garbage can on the street. I couldn't believe I had done that, but in the end I felt better because I had wasted so much time on this horrible book.
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Summary: The first and start of a terrific series!
Review: I was a little skeptical about reading this at first, being that it was not written by Weis & Hickman, however I found myself not being able to put the book down once I started. Incredible characters, great storyline, a few twists and turns here and there in the plot that left you wondering how it was at all possible. Don't want to elaborate too much, giving the story away but seeing my favorite Krynn dragon Skie, Khellendros in dragon circles, again was a real joy. You learn more about him in this series as well. I even picked up some more memorable characters as well! Jean Rabe did an excellent job!!
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Summary: Incredible dragons
Review: While I liked the characters (I don't like kender, though), I mostly enjoyed Rabe's take on dragons. She made them alien and powerfull, awesome! I finished this book in two days, and I'm starting on the next one.
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Summary: The Dawning of a New Age
Review: This book is terrible. Rabe apparently has not read many other Dragonlance books. She starts off by taking away the tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas and then making Dalamar just drop off the face of existance. Her characters have no personality either. The plot is [bad] and since when does Goldmoon have magical powers? and just how many dwarven mystics besides Jasper are there? Rabe must have like scimmed through a couple of Dragonlance books and tried to just improv this series. The battles are always one sides with defiant victories no matter how great the odds the good guys always get out with hardly a scratch. It just not very Dragonlance like and the rest of the books get worse from here. Take my advice and dont even buy this...
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Summary: The Dawning of the New Age
Review: I personaly have never read a DRAGON LANCE book that isn't good they all have been greater then I would have ever expected. This entire series grants my ever consuming fanasty reading habit. This book really starts a whole new DRAGON LANCE breeding ground of the next upcoming series of books. Thanks to Jean Rabe. DRAGON LANCE has new life.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK! DON'T BELIEVE THE BASHING! *MAY BE SPOILERS*
Review: ...Now I have been a dragonlance fan since I was arounf ten years old. That's almost 12 years. I have read over 70 of the books in the series and I own everyone released to this day. Now personally this is one of my favorite dragonlance books of ALL TIME. So go ahead and lynch me. Now that I got that out of my system I might as well write the review. This takes place after the Chaos war (dragons of summer flame). It centers around a new group of heroes. Who try to put a stop to the Dragonlords of krynn who are gaining more power every day. Dhamon Grimwulf is the main character of this book. He is a former Knight of Takhisis, dark paladine. The book also deals with the waning magic of Krynn. All and All I think this is a great book. I suggest you grab this trilogy and the Dhamon Saga trilogy as well. Zombie
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Summary: What a disgrace!!
Review: I'd read all the bad reveiws for this book previously to reading this book but I wanted to judge for myself. Dragonlance books have been getting a lot of complaints lately but people were still giving them - with the exception of this book - 4 or 5 stars. As a matter of fact, the downfall of the series was blamed on this one book. So I decided to see what the fuss was about. This book is nothing short of a disgrace, blasphemy, sacrilege! Whatever you want to
call it. TSR should have had somebody help this poor woman out. On a scale of 1 to 10, the style Rabe chose to write this in is a 5. A little boring. The storyline is, at best, a 4. Among the flaws, and there are quite a few, is the fact that she destroys the Tower Of High Sorcery in Palanthas. The place where Raistlin and Dalamar lived. For long time DL fans, this is sacred ground. The way in which she writes it makes it seem like it's no big deal. Speaking of Dalamar, where is he? The way in which these "heros" were brought together was stupid. The whole deal with this dragon war also seemed forced & stupid. Other parts of the story just don't make sense. There's actually a dragon in the book called The Storm Over Krynn. Plaese. This goes with Weasel's Luck,Galen Beknighted,The Companions,Darkness & Light,Before The Mask and Kendermore as DL books to skip.
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Summary: wow -- this book rocked
Review: I've read 70+ dragonlance books, as well as some other fantasy novels, just so you know where I'm coming from. First and foremost, Jean's job was not an easy one when she wrote this book. She had to create an entire plot and setting different than the one that existed in the former age. And she did a very good job of it too; I was impressed. The first half of the book was really good (5 stars), and then the next quarter got really, really boring. There was just a lot of unnecessary talking and fighting between different characters that didn't need to be there. I mean, Dhamon and his buddies would be traveling to a certain destination and an entire chapter would be devoted to the "small talk" they had along the way.... pretty boring (the reason I gave it 4 instead of 5). The fight scenes were also way to long. In a book I feel that they are meant to be short and thrilling, but I feel the author felt that the fight scenes / small talk in this book had to be drawn out for some reason.... *shrugs*
Jean did well in creating an aura of mystery and intrigue in this book. A real excellent job. Viz., where did Malystryx and Skie come from, if not Kyrnn? Who is the Shadow Sorcerer and who is the Master of the Tower? What's their inolvement / motive in this all about? Pretty interesting....
The ending of the book was incredible. After reading this book I am definitely looking forward to reading the next two in this trilogy.
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Summary: A reader from Ottawa
Review: I read Jean Rabe's series backwards, starting out with the Dhamon books. I discovered the characters were in previous novels, and so got them from my friends to read. I thought they were great. I especially liked the treatment of magic, or the lack thereof, and people trying to cast spells using magic items like batteries.
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Summary: ...why did they let this published?
Review: First thing first, I thought that authors that write for WoTC - or, in the past, TSR - have resources of history/information/culture etc. about the world or area they are going to write about at their disposal. Either Ms. Rabe didn't care to find any, or no one offered it to her, this book seems to know about Krynn less than I do. So, we've got two kenders in the group of new heroes. One of them is afflicted, namely Blister - I won't complain that she doesn't act like a kender; it's fine to see an afficted one for a change. Another seems to be a brainless bag in disguise of a kender. He acts close to a kender, all right, and he ends up dying in a very... anti-climatic way. Dhamon... well, he's a seasoned warrior, ex-dark paladin and acts like a teenaged boy with his first crush. I won't take pains into going into details as to how victorious does he emerge in just about every single battle. The Kagonesti elf is so... how to put it, un-Kagonesti? The Kagonesti aren't called wild elves for nothing. As for the title of my review, I've seen amatuerish, unpublished authors roaming around the net with better writing style and characters. Enough said.
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