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Summary: Another failure of Jean Rabe
Review: Once again, Jean Rabe proves that she cannot write books...and that the editors at TSR do not actually read the books. There were events; but I didn't see a plot in this book. A lot of inconsistencies are in this book. Plus, the writing is just bad.
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Summary: A bit better, but still not worth the money...
Review: Rabe tells a better story than her awful fifth age trilogy, but the caracters are still too thin and child-like, the plot too dull and the inconsistency with all preceeding dragonlance still abound. Is there no editor at TSR who read those books and tells Rabe that there wasn't any Knights of Takhisis in 352!!! I hope that the War of Souls trilogy by Weis & Hickman comes out soon to clean Rabe's mess up once and for good. It was a mistake to hire an author without any feel and any knowledge of Krynn. Read the Chaos War Series instead. Those books rocks!
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Summary: She's getting better...
Review: Rabe, you have to admit, is getting to be a much better author. Her first novel of the Fifth Age, (Dawning of A New Age) was shallow in depth and thought. This novel is good, i found it hard to leave without picking it up again, and is definately a book that breathes some life into the Bridges of Time series, after the bland Spirit of the Wind novel by Chirs Pierson. Gair was such an admirable character, even after he became posessed, and i almost cried after the scene with Goldmoon & Camilla at his grave. A definate good read for DL fans.
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Summary: Just Rabe's other books
Review: The characters are all shallow and the story is poorly written. The elf goes from being an inheritantly good person to the most evil person in the world in one chapter for no apparent reason. He also gets whacked in the knee 5 or 6 times with a hammer then two pages later is out running someone. You gotta wonder why TSR lets her continue to write for the dragonlance series, I have not read a good book from her yet.
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Summary: Just Rabe's other books
Review: The characters are all shallow and the story is poorly written. The elf goes from being an inheritantly good person to the most evil person in the world in one chapter for no apparent reason. He also gets whacked in the knee 5 or 6 times with a hammer then two pages later is out running someone. You gotta wonder why TSR lets her continue to write for the dragonlance series, I have not read a good book from her yet.
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Summary: An Elf's Fall
Review: This book started off a bit slow, but picked up pace around the third chapter. I liked it much more than I thought I would, and found it to be entertaining even though one of my friends `accidentally' told me some of the story. Basically this novel by Jean Rabe focuses on the fall of Gair (a Silvanesti Elf) to the dark side of mysticism with the building of the Citadel of Light in the background. Some new characters are introduced, such as a Gnoll and another Solamnic Knight and Jasper Fireforge and Goodmoon make re-appearances. This is also a very good information book on the workings of Mysticism, which makes it pretty much a must buy for any Fifth Age fan. If you aren't that big on the Fifth Age then it's still a good read with plenty of interesting characters and lots of spirited fighting. The only thing that I didn't like about this novel was the length. Typical of the Bridges of Time series the ending seemed a bit rushed and not as full and as deep as it could have been. But other than that, it's a good DL book by Jean Rabe.
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Summary: An Elf's Fall
Review: This book started off a bit slow, but picked up pace around the third chapter. I liked it much more than I thought I would, and found it to be entertaining even though one of my friends 'accidentally' told me some of the story. Basically this novel by Jean Rabe focuses on the fall of Gair (a Silvanesti Elf) to the dark side of mysticism with the building of the Citadel of Light in the background. Some new characters are introduced, such as a Gnoll and another Solamnic Knight and Jasper Fireforge and Goodmoon make re-appearances. This is also a very good information book on the workings of Mysticism, which makes it pretty much a must buy for any Fifth Age fan. If you aren't that big on the Fifth Age then it's still a good read with plenty of interesting characters and lots of spirited fighting. The only thing that I didn't like about this novel was the length. Typical of the Bridges of Time series the ending seemed a bit rushed and not as full and as deep as it could have been. But other than that, it's a good DL book by Jean Rabe.
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Summary: Better than her last books.
Review: This book was good and bad. I have a few bad things to say about it first. I didn't like how she broke her own rules of Krynn she put in her trilogy. Goldmoon was much to powerful for a world with more magic. It would probably take generations to get over the shock of the gods leaving and decades more of research to get clerical power. I understand a little magic, but it sounded as if she could beat Palin in a magical duel. Enough about magic, I found Gair's descent into evil much too quick and unrational. He didn't seem to have a reason to hate everybody all of a sudden. I haven't read the book in 6 moths, but if his reason was good I think I would remember it. Also, this isn't the best written book I have read it seemed too rushed. Now about the good parts in the book. It was a good fantasy with action, magic, and undead. A DL fan should read it, but I don't recoment it for anyone else. P.S. It was a good recovery for Jean Rabe after the FA trilogy. If she would have written another book like those I would have given up my faith in her.
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Summary: A disgrace to the Dragonlance Series
Review: This is the only Dragonlance novel I've read so far(I've read 73) that I haven't liked. This book had a terrible plot and the characters were weak. Gair's change to the darkside was unrealisticly fast and did not show his struggle with it very well at all. I won't even go into all the mistakes Jean Rabe made about Dragonlance history. This book made Goldmoon, a character brilliantly protrayed by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, look bad. It's a shame that this book was allowed to be published and I hope that the 5th age books aren't as bad.
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