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Summary: This could have been so much better.
Review: I read this and I was disapointed, the feel was wrong Palin was wrong and the Kender were wrong. Jean Rabe is not a bad auther but she shouldn't have tried to follow from weis and hickman. There are some good points to this book and all dragonlance fans should read it and the rest of the series, just to keep up to date with the world of krynn.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I believe Dawning was a great book, and that Jean did a good job of carrying the mantle until Weis and Hickman get back to writing. And as for the kender acting afraid, and not like a kender, it is naive to say that all of one race would be exactly the same. There is bound to be a black sheep, one that acts different. The plot was wonderful, and the battle with Flare is great. Thats my two cents
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Summary: Just bad.
Review: This book is just too linear. Doesn't have the feeling of a Dragonlance setting. Kender who didn't act like kender, 'civilized' Wild Elves, etc. Perhaps Ms. Rabe has not yet settled in Krynn. Pity. The idea is good but the story doesn't go along. My DM makes better adventures!
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Summary: Avoid at all costs!!
Review: As an avid Dragonlance reader, i was pretty excited in what the 5th age had in store. I was feeling a little doubtful in buying this book because it was written by Weiss or Hickman, but i figured they would leave the saga in good hands.Was I wrong! This book is simply awful! The plot is mundane and predictable. The characters are really, REALLY dull and aren't anything more than words on a page. The kenders do not have the feel of what a kender should be like(i.e. Tasslehoff) but come off as sounding very...well..human. What bothered me most was the sudden passage of time straight off the bat. By chapter 5, several decades have already passed between Summer Flame and New Age. Is the years in between just as gray haze of uneventfullness? I'd like to write more but it would extend way past the 1,000 word mark. it's suffice to say that ignoring this book and its sequels completely would be a step up in quality reading.
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Summary: Thrash from cover to cover.
Review: My review of Eve of the Maelstrom covers all of the terrible Rabe (read: rape) trilogy. One star is generous.
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Summary: kender
Review: Ok one sentence should explain my increasingly chaotic feelings. The kender is afraid. Yes you read that right. The token Burrfoot is a lass named Blister who got a burn when she was young and she becomes afraid a lot. Is the sea churning up?? She's afraid. Is there a powerful wyvern? Yup... she's afraid. I actually felt betrayed reading this and seeing Basic knowledge being ignored. Also....<and I know this was pointed out somewhat in an earlier post> in the last book of Flame it was basically stated that magic was dead. Hell Palin couldnt get Raistlins Staff to light up! Suddenly its not that bad? Methinks the corporation didnt want the cash-cow to die. Anyway true fans... let a friend buy the book and borrow it.
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Summary: I was surprised at myself for reading such trash.
Review: The only reason I read through the entire book is because I am a Dragonlance fan, and the only reason I am a Dragonlance fan is because the Weis and Hickman books were great books. All the spin-offs were mostly bad...but this one? Just plain trash. I'm sorry. Just terribly, hopelessly bad. I am so glad Hickman is once again taking charge in his world and writing another trilogy with Weis. Great Reorx!The plot and characters interest me a little, but the story is so badly told, and the characters so badly drawn, it's a pity this book has Dragonlance on the cover. By comparison, the Chronicles were easy to get into, the characters were engaging and unique from the start, and you followed them in a story from beginning to end that was complex, mysterious, interesting, at times funny and at others moving, and at others just plain cool! In DoaNA...it was like a camera jerking you from one scene to the next to the next. You never got to know any of the characters. The vices used in the characters' "adventures" were just plain cheesy. There is NO plot. I'm sorry I had to give this book as much as one whole star. Great Reorx!
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Summary: Avoid this book like the plauge
Review: I picked up this book expecting to be enthralled by interessting characters and devious (& very evil) bad guys wrapped up in an epic quest. I will admit the dragons were cool but everything else was terrible! The characters were boring and 2 dimentional. The book also felt rushed, no indepth descriptions here! They just seem to move to location to location. The new magic was pathetic (anyone can use it, great.....) and Blister well, didn't apear very kender like! Do yourself a favor! Wait for Weis and hickman's new trilogy and imagine this one was just a bad dream.....
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Summary: Complete garbage
Review: All this book did was to crumble my image of the Dragonlance world. So read this book at your own risk. Jean Rabe should have started a whole new trilogy instead of ripping off the Dragonlance name. Well, in the authors defense, Hickman and Weis did not give her much left to work with (they did a good job at completing the Dragonlance trilogy in Dragons of Summer Flame). After reading this book, I will not even pick up a new Dragonlance book unless it is by either Weis or Hickman (Soulforge is an awesome book). Don't read this book, save your money, your time, and your brain.
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Summary: Finally!
Review: I gave up on DRAGONLANCE a long time ago. I was tired of the endless focus on the Companions, the War of the Lance, and gods. This series looks exciting and I enjoyed every page of this novel. Finally DRAGONLANCE is about people against impossible odds and not how the gods can manipulate them today. I wished Jean could have gone more indepth about the discovery of the new magic but finally seeing Palin with a spark of life was enough for now.
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