The Puppet King

Of the "Chaos War" novels, I find this one the best one so far. Douglas Niles did a better job here than in "The Last Thane" at making it an exciting story, full of political intrigues, and family ties and so on.

What's also a nice change in style, in my opinion, is telling the story as a flashback. At the end of each chapter there's the three characters - Samar, warrior-mage and assistant of Alhana (exiled queen of Qualinesti), Silvanoshei (son of exiled Speaker Of The Sun Porthios and Alhana), and the green dragon Aerensianic, who gives his account of what happened - discussing things.

It also seems the Dark Knights aren't that cruel after all, or rather, the Chaos War doesn't really allow for the classic conquering and ruling. All have show more to join forces to avoid being killed themselves by Chaos's evil creatures(fire dragons, shadow wights, shape-shifting creatures, ...).

The only way to destroy them is by using weapons blessed by the gods (or with dragon magic), and those weapons are few in number compared to the masses of elves.

Again, "The Puppet King" is the best one so far, also in that it somehow rekindles my reading interest in Dragonlance novels, whereas the previous reads were rather mediocre. show less

Porthios está a punto de acabar con los seres malignos que se instalaron en Silvanesti. Sólo queda la isla del delta de Thon-Thalas, una campaña aparentemente sencilla. Pero sus tropas caen en una emboscada mortal y tras el fracaso, los senadores reaccionarios de las dos naciones élficas le acusan de traidor. Es proscrito y se convierte en un elfo oscuro que regresará a su país natal para organizar una rebelión contra el Thalas-Enthia y el nuevo Orador de los Soles, su joven sobrino Gilthas. Gilthas se enfrenta a múltiples problemas: los senadores elfos pretenden manejarlo como una marioneta, los Dragones Azules y los Caballeros de Thakhisis se proponen invadir Qualinesti, y ahora tiene además Porthios en su contra