Dragons of the Highlord Skies (Dragon Lance: The Lost Chronicles, Vol. 2) by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
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Book Reviews of Dragons of the Highlord Skies (Dragon Lance: The Lost Chronicles, Vol. 2)
Book Review: Don't judge a book by it's cover, especially not this one...
Summary: 4 Stars
If you are interested in a return to the old characters and world of Krynn, this is about as good as your are going to get nowadays, without re-reading your old novels or buying the annotated collections (which may actually be a better investment if you don't like Knights). The story is not at all awful and at no point did i want to stop reading, but it certainly isn't one of the best of the series.
I find myself bored with the Solmanic Knights stodgy rhetoric and constant huffing and puffing. They spend most of their time justifying their most recent transgression of "the measure", and then they hardly ever get into any worthwhile battles anyway. The two story lines sold on the cover of the book really only come to bare in the last 70 or so pages! The rest is somewhat boring lead up to the money shot.
I kept reading and reading and as there grew to be less and less pages I was wondering if Kit was even really going to get to Nightlund in this novel. I really would have like to have seen more time devoted to the actual battle for the dragon orb as well as Kit's encounter with Lord Soth instead of the mundane lead up. The book glances over the significance of things like the Star Jewel (or whatever it is called, the gem from Alhana given to Sturm) and spends pages upon pages delving into a love story involving one of the other knights; that never really goes anywhere or means anything to the story.
I could go on, but I'm not being paid for this. Let's just hope the last of this trilogy, "Hourglass Mage," doesn't spend 90% of it's pages on a story leading up to meeting Raistlin, and then hurridly telling his turn to the Black Robes in 60 odd pages of a 600 page book.
Book Review: Tass saved it :)
Summary: 4 Stars
Too typical except for Tass. Got to love it :)
Decent story though regardless
Book Review: Dragons of the Highlord skies
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent read. I myself was always dissapointed that there wasn't more detail regarding Kitiara's and Sturm's adventures to Icereach. This cleared everything up perfectly. Weis and Hickman are true literary geniuses!Book Review: from a big dragonlance fan
Summary: 4 Stars
I took a break from reading dragonlance books for a long time and decided to start with the chronicles series and mix in a bit of these lost chronicles as i go.
I started with autumn twilight naturally and went straight into dwarven depths. The transition from one to the other is smooth. I wasn't sure if I should read this book or winter night. I opted to go with this one. It was a great read.
Then I went into winter night which is the reason I give this book one less star then a perfect five. I realized that the lost chronicles didn't really fit in so well. Looking back I could tell it was really forced. Spoiler: For example, Tanis goes through Thorbardin without any problems, nothing about his discomfort with enclosed spaces or anything, and then I read the beginning of winter night and suddenly he was very uncomfortable underground and wanted out as soon as possible. Or how Tas got the glasses or how he helped the knights. Or Kit's relationship with Skie is different in this one than it is in winter night. It just didn't feel right, in my opinion.
But all in all, by itself, the book is fun to get through, though the connections to the true chronicles were really forced in. I could overlook it easily enough and recommend this to fans of the series.
Book Review: Kitiara's Place
Summary: 5 Stars
I found the Novel to be a very good read and I think that if Kitiara had been able to contribute more to Takithises war the Dragon lance war probably would have gone very Diffrently and I can hardly wait for the Third book which concerns Raistlin.