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Title: The Dawning of a New Age (Dragonlance: Dragons of a New Age, Book 1) by Jean Rabe ISBN: 0-7869-2842-5 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 17 June, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.66 (77 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Decline
Comment: So the decline of the Dragonlance Saga continues! After the highs of the Chronicles and the Legends, and the somewhat legendary "Legend of Huma", the world of Krynn has never really recovered. There are still many entertaining books in the series, don't get me wrong, but "The Dawning of a New Age" is a book that should never have left the clutches of Weis and Hickman. Jean Rabe clearly struggles to make sense of the huge plot changes made in "Dragons of Summer Flame" (a brief return to former glories). The characters are badly underveloped and one can hardly imagine a "Meetings Sextext" series being developed for these characters. The plot is desperatley lacking in any ideas and the book is too quick in finding answers to how magic was suddenly re-discovered. Palin is the only character with any sort of depth to them, and thats a character who came from older books. Wheres the characters like Tanis and Raistlin i ask? The only good things are the fight scenes, but even these are un-realistic. Dhamon is able to take on about 10 Knights of Takhisis at once but the energy of the telling is endearing. Steer well clear of this cliched rubbish and get the new Weis and Hickman book which should be considered as the real follow up to "Dragons of Summer Flame". Hopefully the glory of Dragonlance will return with this book. Why did Weis and Hickman ever give such an important book over to any one else? Its spectacuarly awful!
Rating: 4
Summary: A slow start that gets better
Comment: Jean Rabe constantly takes abuse from Dragonlance fans around the globe for a plethora of reasons. Some I've found to be just, others, I believe are unfounded. It was because of this harsh critism that I remained hesitant for a good while to read this book. After finishing every other book I owned and reading some for a second time, I grudgingly began this read.
At my own admission, this book began very slowly. The first 100 pages seemed plaqued by choppy writing, and seemingly overly fantastic ideas. Given this is a fantasy book, I still found some of the happenings in the book a bit hard to swallow.
My biggest critism of the book,however, has to do with the how willingly the author let years go by without description(literaly decades). It seemed to me that the amount of time that passed in te early portion of this book really didn't mean much to Mrs. Rabe. I have to say I was seriously starting to doubt whether or not I would finish this one.
All the critism aside, after the first 100 pages or so the plot settled down and the writting began to become enjoyable. I was finally able to get involved with the characters and wanted to see what would happen to them next. By the end of the book I was left wanting more. When all is said and done, that to me is the most important part of a book in a series.
I really admire the guts that it took for Jean to step out on a limb and write this series. I've found that many DL fans can be very critical, and unmoving in thier willingness to branch out and discover new things. Jean did something that was very difficult, in filling the gap that is the beginning of the Fifth Age. Kodus to her!
All in all, I think this book is a enjoyable read that will leave most readers wanting more. For those diehard DL fans it is a must read. Looking back, my gripe about the passage of time allows, hopefully, other authors to fill the gap with other tells of heroism and valor.
Don't go into this book expecting the kind of greatness that is the Chronicles series or maybe The Legand of Huma(my personal favorite), because you won't find it. There isn't a ton of depth and you probably won't develop a strong attachment to the characters. DoNA starts slowly, but levels off into a nice story. I believe if you press on and overlook the choppy writing at the begining you will leave this book pleasantly surprised. I did.
Rating: 2
Summary: I shouldn't have bought them all at once
Comment: I'm certainly not an experienced Dragonlance fan, but I must say that this book is just not right. It just doesn't seem like a credible Dragonlance story at all.
First, the gods abandon the entire world, leaving dragons to do as they wish. There's not magic left, except in magic items. Even though Dragons have enough power to clone themselves and transform landscapes, one of the main dragon characters goes on a quest to steal magic items so he can gather enough power to open a portal. Go figure.
The relationship between this dragon and his dead companion was not believeable either. "Oh, I have to resurrect my friend," but then he goes off on some tangent with a red dragon who wants to turn all humanity and the like into cattle.
In addition, the dragons are overly immense, and one of them destroys the great tower of palanthas! Preposterous!
The author, unsuccessfully, tries to gather a group of rag-tag heroes to start a new revolution. The book just gets stupider and stupider.
It's possible that this could have been good, but the whole premise obviously went south. A 2-star rating is probably fair.
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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: Redemption by Jean Rabe ISBN: 0786930063 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 19 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Betrayal (The Dhamon Saga, Volume II) by Jean Rabe ISBN: 0786927186 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dragons of Summer Flame by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman ISBN: 0786927089 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Downfall (Dragonlance: The Dhamon Saga, Book 1) by Jean Rabe ISBN: 0786918144 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 16 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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