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Summary: I stopped reading DL after this book
Review: Initially, I was glad to see that the DL dynasty would not die with "Dragons of Summer Flame," but now I think the series should have ended there. Instead, we have been left with an airport novel which tries to borrow from Classical literature (gee, I think I've seen that tempest scene a few dozen times), but instead becomes quite dull. Rabe's writing is pedestrian and lacks the oomph that other writers lent to the series. The book is readable, but never conveys the background of despair against which this story is set.
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Summary: This Book deserves no stars.
Review: Okay all you who think this book is semi to really good, read it again and tell me what you think. This book is incredibly dumb, boring and to top it off, it screws up the famous characters that Weis and Hickman created and who we fell in love with. My suggestion is to skip this series (or if you read it) go on to Weis and Hickmans' "Great repair on Rabes trajedy" Dragons of the Fallen Sun. This book basically points out that the New age stories are a Crock of bull and trys to repair the damage done by the butcher of Dragonlance Jean Rabe. Dont spend your money on this book. Stay with the Legends wies And hickman.
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Summary: Oh dear god no....
Review: And from the sacrifice of a single small person, the end of the universe was averted and all of the trials of the Fourth Age were not done in vain... that is until this book was written. I haven't reached 'Dragons of the Fallen Sun' yet in the overall series, but somebody PLEASE tell me that this series by Jean Rabe is a dream sequence passing through the mind of a sleeping gully dwarf five seconds before it was squashed by a runaway gnomeflinger rolling down the hill on square wheels (which were supposed to stop it from rolling away in the first place since that was the flaw of the last version). Did Jean Rabe even research Krynn before writting this? Does she even know what a kender is? Some of the plot ideas were good. I liked Skie's return, but there was nothing else. Dull and predictable. Avoid this book unless you want to get to the next Hickman and Weis book. In the latter case, borrow it from somebody else. The six bucks ain't worth it.
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Summary: I Dug the Dragons
Review: I don't read a lot of gaming fiction, as I quit gaming when I left college. But I pick one up from time to time. A friend gave me this trilogy just before Christmas. I started with this book, and I had to finish it. Read it in two days. It's not Weis and Hickman, but it's good. The dragons jump out at you and seem real. They're not people in scaly suits. I can't wait to get into the next one.
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Summary: not too bad, not too great either
Review: This was the first dragonlance book I ever read. I have been playing d&d for a while and some of my fellow adventurers talked about how great the dragonlance series was. So I went a local used book store and looked for some dragonlance books. I'm not sure what possesed me, but somehow I saw this book above the others and decided to take it home. Believe it or not, from now on this got me hooked on the dragonlance series. Since the book was used, there a few notes in it(such at Rabe saying ther was only one tower of high sorcery). At the time I didnt know what it meant and just thought it was funny. After reading this book a couple of times and comparing it too my newly bought chronicles series, I can tell that Rabe is not the best author. She never really went in depth with the characters, and before you knew them, they just died, sometimes stupidly. And, she obviously does not know too much about Krynn geography. The one thing that saves this book from a 1-star rating are the dragons. I always have been facinated by them, and now they have personalities and agendas of their own. They are really great. With all that in consideration, I give this book a 3-star. I will go buy the other two books since I HATE cliffhangers on books. I will also be buying the Preludes volumes since they have the stories about the "companions" during that five years. Have a good day all.
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Summary: The Dawning of a Dark Age
Review: The Dawning of a New Age is the worst novel I have ever read all the way through, and what possessed me to complete it is beyond me. It strives to be the second coming of the Dragonlance Chronicles, but it misses, and it misses WIDE. I have no intention of picking up the books that follow. The backstory is basically something or other about evil dragons uniting in a plot to take over Krynn, and so up step the new heroes of the land. To say they are less colorful than the original companions is a massive understatement. These characters, in fact, as as static as cardboard and less interesting than dirty dishwater. Even more enigmatic, some characters pop in and out, (some only to die in strange ways that leave you shaking your head and wondering how morbid Jean Rabe really is) having no real bearing on the story. The author seemed to be in a mighty rush when writing this - perhaps there was a deadline to meet looming in the very near horizon. Things that need more explanation, characters included, get none, and so the reader cannot help but feel dislocated from the events and the people participating in them. Even less interesting than the humanoid characters, however, are the dragons, and they take up a large portion of the book with their rivalries and plots and so on and so forth. I can find little to nothing about this book that makes it worth recommending save that it is the future of Dragonlance fiction, so those who are avid fans of the series may find themselves forced upon it. I for one will pretend that the history of Krynn is over and continue rereading the Chronicles. This is one new age that shouldn't have dawned.
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Summary: An avid reader from Quincy
Review: This was the first Dragonlance book I've read in a long time, having strayed from game-related fiction. Well, it hooked me, and I'm back. I especially enjoyed the dragons--which were not humans in big lizard suits. They were otherworldly and powerful, alien. My favorite character, however, was killed. It took me about thirty pages to get over it.
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Summary: I was surprised
Review: I was hesitant to pick up this book because of some of the reviews. But, I figured what the heck, paperbacks aren't expensive. Boy, I was glad I did get it. The action was a little slow at first, as it took a while to introduce all the characters. But then it picked up and moved along. I liked the mix of characters, especially the two sea barbarians. And I liked Dhamon Grimwulf. I went out and bought the other two books the next week.
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Summary: At the sum of all things, a good book
Review: The books may not be in the same level as Dragons of a Fallen Sun (and sure as hell not at the same level asChronicles and Legends), but Jean rabe do come thru and provides us with an exciting trilogy. The charecters dosen't have nuch depth, that's true, and by the time you finish the oh so-predictable 1st book and realize that absolutely nothing happened over the last 300 pages or so you just want to scream, but the 2nd and 3rd books are much better then the 1st and as a whole, the trilogy is definatly enjoyable. Anyway, we got to rid it to keep up with the 5th Age timeline - so I suggest doing the best of it, but try and find it in the libary instead of buying it. P.S: Pardom the typoes, English is my 3rd language.
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Summary: Jean is alot better than people give her credit for
Review: The Dawning of a New Age was something I read with fear. The world of Krynn seemed to have died after Weis and Hickman's Dragons of Summer Flame, and I figured that that would be the end of the Dragonlance saga. Boy was I wrong, and thank god I was! Jean Rabe's series that kicks off the Fifth Age is ALOT better than the reviews give it credit. This first book deals with the first adventures of some of the new heroes of Krynn. Blister may not be Tasslehoff, Damon may not be Caramon, but these characters slowly develop and they are wonderful. I suggest wholeheartedly that people that didn't read this because of the horrible reviews it was given, reconsider and read it anyways. You may find it was more than you bargained for.
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