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Title: Kendermore by Mary Kirchoff ISBN: 0-7869-2947-2 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.35 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Kendermore is a great book by a great author
Comment: Kendermore is one of the better book's i've read. I really like Mary Kirchoff's writing and this story is quite amusing (that can be expected with kender) and it also gives info about Tasslehoff Burrfoot's origin's and Kendermore itself, which have been pretty much neglected in previous titles.
Rating: 4
Summary: Redeemed the Series
Comment: After the abyssmal Darkness & Light of the Preludes series, I was very inclined to pass over Kendermore. I only had hope because the author was different, so I gave it a shot. Luckily this book was a hundred times better than the last one.
The main plot is that the kender Tasselhoff is being taken back to Kendermore by the dwarven bounty hunter Gisella and her assistant. Of course being a kender, he ultimately gets distracted along the way. A treasure map gets involved along with a cowardly doctor and Tasselhoff's intended bride to be. Being a kender he naturally manages to get out of every tight situation without fear and normally "borrowing" something along the way.
Kendermore saves itself from the problem of the last novel by not taking itself so seriously. Ridiculous situations are treated as just that and not intended to be great masterpieces. The author lends just enough credibility to the rather comical character to make him an amusing hero.
It's all in all a nice light read that though it won't make you think too much, it won't sour your stomach either.
Rating: 3
Summary: Tas deserves better
Comment: "Kendermore" has the dubious distinction of being the best novel in the Dragonlance Preludes trilogy.... I say dubious because that's more of a slam to the other two novels than a complement to this one. It's still not all that great a book, but is marginally saved by the overall quality of the character Tasslehoff Burrfoot. As has already been pointed out, the author clearly contradicts facts and character qualities already established in Chronicles, but nitpicking aside the plot just isn't all that hot.
It starts off decently enough, with Tas being nabbed by a bounty hunter and dragged back home to Kendermore, but it degenerates from there into a gnome ridden goofy mess. It's an immature and almost insultingly childish story that doesn't really give new insight or development to everybody's favorite kender. Tasslehoff is one of the most recognizable and consistently entertaining characters in the Dragonlance world, and to have this be "his" tale prior to the War of the Lance is doing him a great disservice.
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Title: The Brothers Majere (Dragonlance: Preludes, Book 3) by Kevin Stein, Rose Estes ISBN: 0880387769 Publisher: TSR Hobbies Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Darkness and Light by Paul B. Thompson, Tanya R. Carter ISBN: 088038722X Publisher: TSR Hobbies Pub. Date: 08 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Flint the King by Mary Kirchoff, Douglas Niles ISBN: 0880389117 Publisher: TSR Hobbies Pub. Date: 01 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Riverwind the Plainsman (Dragonlance: Preludes, Volume 4) by Paul B. Thompson, Tonya R. Carter, Clyde Caldwell ISBN: 0880389095 Publisher: TSR Hobbies Pub. Date: 01 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Tanis, The Shadow Years by Barbara Siegel, Scott Siegel ISBN: 0880389133 Publisher: TSR Hobbies Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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