Mixed Feelings
The show must move on, if it is to continue. I'm not certain it needed to. The Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy Gift Set, while flawed, were a great story. The Legends Gift Set: Time of the Twins, War of the Twins, and Test of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends Trilogy) was even better. This effort fell flat, and even turned continuity on its head.
The entire plot is based on a what-if scenario: what if Tasslehoff Burrfoot (herien referred to as Tas) didn't die? At the end of the Chaos war, Tas decides he needs to be present at Caramon Majere's funeral. Using an artifact, he travels forward in time, disrupting everything.
Now, if the Chaos War were lost, that would mean that Chaos won, and everything and everyone went caput. There's no way around that. But that's just what the authors decided to do: ignore the consequences of their book, Dragons of Summer Flame Dragons of Summer Flame.
That didn't sit well. But there were other problems:
We became attached to the original cast in Chronicles as they interacted with one another. They faced danger as a group. They grew, they quarrelled, forgave, cursed and watched eachothers' backs. This trilogy isn't like that. Each of the characters we're introduced to, and expected to care about, faces everything on their own, right up until the very end.
Another issue I had a problem with was the the antagonist. A teenage girl who appears completely honest and blunt throughout, but when it suited the purpose of the story, acted subtley, maliciously, and in a backstabbing manner. Then too, how she could be so attached to Goldmoon, and yet fall so completely for the 'One God.' Her last act seemed so out of character, it took me completely out of the story.
This set was heavily bloated. More happened in the Dragons of Summer Flame, a single book, than occurred in this entire trilogy.
It was nice to see some of the old characters again, even if they were on their way out. It's a shame we never really got to know Palin or Usha, who are still rather flat. The major groups acted consistently with their established history. Even when everything changes in the end, alot remained the same. Meh. This was one tale the Dragonlance universe could have done without. It leaves the world of Krynn with alot less good and evil. The very things that made DragonLance tick.
(And how many times does the fate of Raistlin need to be changed, people?)
War of the souls trilogy
I enjoyed the books & read them in a matter of days.
Some of my favorite players in these books were offed or otherwise already passed on. I will need to see if some of the other books tell those tales.
My only bad thing I can say is the editors failed to catch many mistakes and sentence mix ups in all three books.
great cotinuation of series!
Once again These Authors weave a tantalizing tale that keeps the reader enthralled to the end.....and wanting more. I WILL get the next series as well!
Great trilogy
This is a great trilogy to read, full of rich detail and story content that has always made my husband and me love anything written by Margaret Weis.
Very large books with little content
I managed to finish these books, but just barely. They are the only dragonlance novels I read and then promply sold rather than add to my collection. I have read all the core novels (tanis, rasitin, tasselhof, ect.) and a the ledgend of huma, kaz the minitor and the elf trilogy. I state this to only prove my adoration for the dragonlance saga.
However, these books are terrible. Dragons of summer's flame wasn't even this bad. As with the series in general they wander, but this time it is too an extreme and the story they are telling serves no point. I was never engaged with the story, tasselhof has become a bore and almost irritating. The only gratifying part of the novels is the emergance of Fizban who never gets old to me.
In the end, if you are on the fence about these novels DO NOT BUY THEM. However, I wouldn't listen to reviewers either so I understand the mistake you will soon commit.
