F/SF

I have another copy of this book. Wasn't too thrilled by the series so I'm getting rid of this.

Although this is a reread, I was quite surprised to find that I find this book, the weakest of the trilogy. Whilst there is the trademark, tropes of humour, romance, action, and intrigue, it doesn’t seem quite as cataclysmic an ending as one would’ve expected from such a brilliant trilogy up until that point. Without giving any spoilers obviously there is more grief and loss for some of the companions. I realise that when this was written there was already a movement towards the next trilogy and certainly that is mentioned in this don’t get me wrong. This is a very enjoyable and thrilling end to the Chronicles Could’ve been done better? Probably is the answer to that. I am now looking forward to moving on to the twins trilogy. ( )

The conlusion and final showdown between the Heroes of the Lance and the Queen of Darkness. During the war some have been lost and some have been found and there are those who are destined to be lost in-between. Reading the Twins trilogy after this is highly recommended. Honestly in regards to dragonlance...I would not touch anything after book six. The world of Krynn becomes sloppy, generic and just dull. ( )

This was the third book in this series and clearly, it's going to continue. This was the best of the three books. There was a lot of action which the authors do rather well. But the characters are still mostly flat. The literal Deus Ex Machine is contrived and I feel cheated. I saw it coming in the second book and found it lame.

There was a lot of lame storytelling. Jumping from one group of characters to another, leaving one group in peril, and then not really fleshing out how they got out of it, or if they did, it was a last-minute rescue that was again lame.

I was really disappointed in these books and only continued reading them because I owned all three and more than one friend told me how good they were. But these friends read them back when they came out. Had I read these back in the '80s I might have had the same opinion, but I'm a seasoned reader (and editor/proofreader) now and I can easily see behind the curtain. The literary tricks used, were just that, tricks. And done poorly at that.

If you love D&D (which I do), you might enjoy them. I didn't. I'm told the Forgotten Realms series is much better.

My recommendation would be to skip these and read Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser instead. ( )