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Title: Dragons of Summer Flame (Dragonlance Saga Novel: Chronicles (Books)) by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Michael Williams ISBN: 0-7869-0523-9 Publisher: TSR Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (235 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The End?
Comment: The problem with a commercially successful series like Dragonlance is the tendancy to drag the series out in the name of profit. Granted, I like several of the spin-off novels, but most of them are honestly prattle compared to the core chronicles/legends books.
Which brings me to Summer Flame. The Second Generation was an interesting book because it allowed readers to explore the fates of characters more in depth, but it was never anything more than a supplement. Summer Flame expands that supplement into a monstrous chronicle of yet another war of conquest, with a twist: This time, Takhisis has the upper hand. Until Chaos comes and destroys everything...
I find the Chaos storyline hard to swallow. Dougan Redhammer (Reorx) is a fun character, but slightly overkill when paired with Tasslehoff (who shows up, again.) Usha is just not a likable character. She starts out as a naive youth, and remains such throughout the entire story. Ah, but wait! She falls in love. Great. Fun. As a previous reviewer pointed out, Usha by all means SHOULD be Raistlin's daughter according to the short story of the same name, and unless Weis and Hickman are laying the doubt on too thick, they contradict themselves. This, and several typos, are annoying.
Yet this book remains little more than exposition upon a sequel. Steel is the resolution of the great Sturm/Kitiara conflict from Chronicles and Preludes, and Palin is just a pawn in the ongoing majere storyline. I think I understand that Weis and Hickman wanted to unify some previous storylines into an ultimate conclusion, and they do so very well, but possibly at the expense of the new characters. The book does provide some sense of closure, which is good.
Overall, it's not a bad story. Steel is a good character. But god, I miss Sturm. His ghostly reappearances are some of the best parts of the extended storyline. Kitiara, too. And the death of Tanis Half-Elven is fitting, for like the Dragonlance series, he had nowhere left to go. The scene in which he speaks briefly to Laurana before departing to defend the High Clerist's Tower is wonderfully written and one of my favorite in all of Dragonlance. This may sound silly, but I also think that Summer Flame's cover art is by far the best of any of the Dragonlance novels. Steel Brightblade is rendered as the quintessential Dark Paladin.
In short, if you are a fan of Dragonlance, this book deserves to be read. If not, don't start with this one. As a devoted fan of the Dragonlance saga, I cannot give this less than 4 stars. But if you've never read Dragonlance before, you won't be as forgiving as I am. Go back to Chronicles and pick it up with Flint and Tanis on the road to Solace.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best Dragonlance novels I've read!
Comment: "Dragons of Summer Flame" is definitely on of the finest Dragonlance novels I have ever read to date. Despite the lack (at first glance) of some of our more beloved characters (those who were killed off in earlier novels), and the addition of new ones that we don't know, I thought this might be an O.K. book when I finally decided to read it. Little did I know that I would once again meet up with those beloved characters and come to feel for the new character as I felt for the old ones. The book is written so beautifully that, as I read, I could picture the action perfectly, as if a great movie were playing in my mind. There's plenty of action, plenty of mystery and suspense, plenty of magic, and plenty of laughs, enough to make even the most anti-fantasy fanatic change their ways. This is truly a triumph, depite the loss of a few things most people think are important to the world of Krynn, and it leads way into the new Fifth Age novels. As much as we who enjoy the mages and the gods hate to see those two groups go, Krynn, as all worlds, must move on. I encourage any Dragonlance fan to read this book, and for any non-D.L. reader to start reading from the beginning- "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" before reaching for this book. "May your Sword never break . . ."
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: This book is mostly wonderful. My one small complaint is that W&H did the same thing they kinda did at the end of the Death Gate Cycle -- that is they tried to turn the world into Earth (Remember Alfred babbling over "God"?, same sorta thing).
I think they were trying to kill the series. Then Jean Rabe comes along and messes it all up and then had to come and fix it again with the War of the Souls. Jean Rabe == Worst Fantasy Author Ever.
But for the characters... I read every single DL book published before this one. The end of this one made me cry, and I still cry thinking about it. There is no way I cannot fully recommend this book to any Dragonlance reader.
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Title: The Second Generation by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman ISBN: 0786926945 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The War of Souls Trilogy Gift Set: Dragons of a Fallen Sun, Dragons of a Lost Star, Dragons of a Vanished Moon (Dragonlance Series) by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman ISBN: 0786930020 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 14 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
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Title: Brothers in Arms (Dragonlance: Raistlin Chronicles, Book 2) by Margaret Weis, Don Perrin ISBN: 0786914297 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 05 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Soulforge (Dragonlance: The Raistlin Chronicles, Book 1) by Margaret Weis ISBN: 0786913142 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy Gift Set by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman ISBN: 0786926813 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
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