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Summary: Front page: gnomes flying machine works!
Review: This is about a mercenary named Kitiara and Sturm, a knight of Solamnia. They are going to Solamnia to find Sturm's father, when they lose their horses and come across gnomes with a flying machine. The gnomes promise the humans that if they get them unstuck, they with fly them anywhere they want to go. Sturm, being a knight, is all honorable etc., but Kitiara is quite the opposite. Gnomes are known for being inventors - although about only 10% of their inventions actually work. Kitiara is doubtful that the machine will fly, but they help the gnomes anyway. And the ship, the Cloudmaster, proves to work. All is going well, until something goes wrong, and they crash-land on the moon Lunitari. All red sand and rocks, as far as the eye can see. It's not that bad at first, but when they meet walking, talking (but not so intelligent), tree's, a crazy survivor from a strange incident, giant crystal ants, and when Kitiara grows as strong as ten men, Sturm has visions, and all the gnomes get better at what they were already good at (though they couldn't make it rain before...), they decided that they had better get off the moon - quickly.
Although Kitiara is not a character that I really like, I found the book funny and entertaining.
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