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Summary: Mercy, please!
Review: I gave it one star because it was grammatically correct, for the most part. You'd be surprised how authors can write without grammar. I never liked Jean Rabe's style much, and I think that this book sums up everything bad about it. Her characters are badly done, and the characters she borrows from others are unrecognizable. None of the easy dialogue seen in other DL books. The plot seems to crawl along, going nowhere until the very end, and once it's over, it seems the journey just wasn't worth the trouble. You're better off reading Weis, Hickman, Knaak, etc.
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Summary: The dragons are REALLY dragons
Review: Too often in fantasy books the dragons are humans in lizard suits. But the author of this book makes them DRAGONS. Different motivations than humans and elves and the like. Grand schemes. I found it very difficult to put this book down once I started it.
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Summary: Ugh and it only gets worse
Review: Rabe's characters are dull. Every fight involves forty thrown knives by Rig and the next two books in this trilogy are worse.
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Summary: Good book, can't believe how some hate it
Review: Okay, the animations are poor, and the characters aren't the greatest but it's still a good read, hardly garbage like some state. I enjoyed reading about the new dragons, and about the adventures of these new less appealing heroes. Blister and Feril are especially stupid, but the rest aren't too bad. Ok, this ain't Weis and Hickman but that doesn't mean it's not worth awhile.
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Summary: Good fantasy novel
Review: Unlike most of y'all that have reviewed this novel, I actually enjoyed it. I don't think that Mrs. Rabe deserves all this trash that she is getting. I really couldn't put the book down, but since then I have found better novels. That doesn't mean this book was that bad though. It has plenty of action, and the series really picks up once you get further into the trilogy. I loved the characters in the book and thought the author did a fine job with their development. My favorite was Feril. I thought she was written very well. I also like all the relationships the author threw into the novel. This book is not a BAD book, however there are better books out there.. I think that some people are just dissing the author because she isn't Margaret Weis or Tracy Hickman.. I recommend this book to others if you like a nice storyline, fairly well written characters, and nice action sequences and love "affairs" amongst the characters.
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Summary: A good Solid entry into 5th Age Krynn
Review: ...With a unique array of Heroes and new magics and mysticism, this book had me tingling for more. With 5 new dragonlords looming over Krynn its darkest hour is upon the world. Even twists and turns to keep you in suspense for a while.... A good book to try and figure out the plot points mentioned in Weis & Hickman's Dragons of a Fallen Sun and Lost Star books. The sad fact of the amtter though is that a lot of Dragonlance's fans are not willing to allow themselves experience krynn from the vantage point of any author aside from Weis and Hickman whose work these last few years has frankly been going down hill with redundancy.... But in the way I see the world one can like Rabe without disdain for W and H and vice versa...DEFINITELY try this with a buy.
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Summary: More of an add on book then a 'main' plot
Review: Characters were unoriginal. Oh my gosh! Dhamon is a knight of Takhisis, what a surprise!?!? The kender was a poor man's Tasslehoff. The pirates?? disgusting characters..really..which cause you to sometimes think you're watching an episode of Hercules: the Legendary Journeys. Also, Palin was a complete and utter disappointment. He was supposed to be such a great character but became nothing more than a peon in the 5th Age. All the characters were poorly developed, cliche and boring. Rabe tries to make the characters unique like the kender with the glove, but doesn't succeed at all. Where's Raistlin, Tanis and Sturm when you need them? The plot is dreadful and boring. Even Weiss and Hickman's Chronicles weren't that great, they were interesting at least with characters such as Raistlin. But 5th Age? Give it a try, but dont' expect another Dragons of Autumn Twilight
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Summary: Exciting, liked all the new characters
Review: I thought Dhamon and Rig were the best new Dragonlance characers to come along in quite some time. I also liked the dragons and all the action.
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Summary: Great Story - Bad writing.
Review: I have enjoyed the DL saga for many years, mainly because of Weis and Hickmans writing. And so now they have left a very important story in the Dragonlance Saga to Jean Rabe who obviously can't write at all. Her charcters are shallow and her villains aren't very interresting either. The only reason for reading this pile of incohernt babble is to get the background knowledge for "The War of Souls" by Weis and Hickman which is Dragonlance at it's best.
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Summary: Sadness
Review: I have been a faithful devotee of the Dragonlance series since I was a lonely 12 year old in middle school with nothing else going for me but an uncanny knack for grammar and a bit of skill with a pen. I thrilled to the incredible writing of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and was inspired by their characters. However, I come to read this book and I am truly and deeply appalled. I find the writing lackluster and uninteresting, the characters typical and completely flat. I hated the heroes and I was bored by the villains. Every plot twist sounded to me like the plotless drivel I wrote when I was about 10 with a friend, and I just found myself devastated that the series I loved was turned over to someone without half of the skill that Weis and Hickman possessed. I almost boycotted the series in angry protest. However, with the Soulforge novels, I find forgiveness in my heart, but I do not at all recommend this novel to anyone who doesn't want to waste hours of their life.
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