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| Authors: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Category: Book
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Rating:  249 reviews
Sales Rank: 53336
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 608
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0786927089
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780786927081
ASIN: 0786927089
Publication Date: February 2002
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Product Description
Summer has come to Krynn, a summer unlike any before. The sun bears down on land and sea, searing the world with relentless light and heat. Clouds and rain are nowhere to be found, and even the darkness of night brings little relief from the strange and oppressive day.
Meanwhile, those who commune regularly with their gods are uneasy. Every day, their deities become more distant, more difficult to reach. Clerics' prayers go unanswered, and magic goes awry. As the tension on Ansalon builds, estranged cousins Palin Majere and Steel Brightblade search for an explanation. It soon becomes evident that more than just magic is at stake.
The fate of all Krynn hangs in the balance.
This is a new paperback edition of Dragonlance cocreators Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's first hardcover New York Times bestseller. It is the direct prequel to the current War of Souls trilogy. This edition features a new cover design that ties into the recent rereleases
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 Dragonlance Review April 13, 2010
Kimberly Parker (Tennessee)
The book is awsome, however it is not what I was looking for. I was looking for the graphic novel that looks like a comic book.
 The End of the Best set of Fantasy Heros Every Created January 3, 2009
K. Klepadlo (New Jersey)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I could get into character, writing issues, why things may have been done, etc. But many others have already done that, I was extremely unhappy with this book. It was actually written OK, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why ALL the heros of the lance were killed in this. It just does not make sense to me, then I kind got into some of the Lance heros children. Like Palin, Tanin, Gilthanis, they all get killed off too between the "Second Generation and Dragons of Summer Flame" It seemed that for whatever reason, the whole entire bloodline of the heros of the lance were set out to be destroyed. I have read books in Ebberron, Grey Hawk, Etc. The Chronicles and Legends are still the best series of books I have ever read, I have not found any others that are in the same realm as these. I just think there could have been many other ways to have done the continuing story line different and better, there was not a need to kill everyone off and their children as well. I can understand wanting to put in new blood / characters into the mix. But this was not the Detriot Lions or the Bengals, we did not need a complete overhaul. I was let down, to be brought up with the liking of some of the children to the heros of the Lance, to be brought back down when they are pretty much all killed as well. I will go with another comment I have seen, I will re read the the first two series containing the Heroes of the Lance and the Meetings Sextets. Pretend the the Second Generation and Dragons of Summer Flame were bad dreams.
 AWSOME!! November 22, 2008
A. Dunsmoor (USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is friggin awsome!! Even for people who have never read the DLC. But for people who have, this book is deep in reminiscence.
Basically picture this: "good and evil have to combine in order to destroy a threat that wants to end ALL EXISTENCE, oh and two main characters die at the end too....so sad..
What have they done? September 10, 2008
Shlomo Goland (Naharia, Israel)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I mean, seriously, what were they been thinking?
First off, the kender stuff is overly used on chronicles and legends, ok we got it, it was funny, dont tell the same joke more than 3 times.
The descriptions of be with a kender is worse than fighting a troll is told so geek like, it kinda made me feel being a geek by reading this crap.
Palin is so a boring character only second maybe to the awful Laurana.
And why all the new heroes have to be the sons of the previous heroes? does heroisem go by blood line and not personality?
And why we need Palin if we have Raistlin back? at least Rasitlin was a true hero which had a lot of power aura around him.
Palin was said to be meant to be powefull, but i would put money on him fighting a scared mouse by the way his personality goes.
I quite liked Usha, she was very funny in her untrusting people manner and her simple thinking on life.
Steel was a very good character which i would build upon, like a normal person he had a good side and a dark side, people are not totally evil or totally good.
The end was a real dissapointment as Paladine sits back on the couch and let Steel, His Dragon, Palin, Usha and Tas to do the job. Where was the God Commander himself? if he cannot defeat chaos, how can his creations?
Another thing that dissapoints me is Takisis leaving, it is stupid to think that she does not care for the world, she has a different perspective from Paladine but still they both focus on this world. Making her leaving just poits her out more of a scared child rather the Queen of Darkness. But Paladine is no better as he was not doing anything much either.
And where the hell was Gilean, i know he writes history, but dude, the world comes to an end, cant you raise your lazy butt and do something?
Chaos is the source of all the gods, shouldn't it be that he be fought by his children, and Steel, Palin and all fight his generals?
If Chaos was defeated by mortals, how can we have respect for the gods in this book? Where was Raistlin that defeated Takisis, why couldn't he fight there and let Palin play with dolls at home?
Instead of making a grand finalle, Chaos was destroyed by the hands of a kender, is that what was i kept on reading for?
Is that the best you can make of?
This book had some nice moments, I couldn't ignore that, but he was really rushed and the plot eventually was lame.
 terrible August 10, 2008
Ishak Ivatar
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I hadn't read Dragonlance for a few years and was eager to revisit them, having read Chronicles, Legends, and the Raistlin books (Soulforge and Brothers in Arms) a while back. Boy did I make a mistake! This book, if anything, made me MORE nostalgic for those favorites of mine (particularly Chronicles and Legends). What's worse, I fear it might have even ruined the Dragonlance atmosphere for me, as I fear I will never be able to look at the Companions (or Krynn) quite the same way again. Well, that's very minor and perhaps silly. Main thing is, this book in no way resembles the others, and almost seems a sick parody of them. The more you liked the Chronicles (and Legends), the more I would recommend you NOT read this book.
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