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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
General Overview
A story with potential, the falters by not letting good heroes lie, spoiling their ride off into the sunset.
Style
[a:Margaret Weis|869|Margaret Weis|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] does a very capable job of writing Dragons of Deceit. A lot was expected from this book, after the decades without anything further written on the world of Krynn, and the vaunted Dragonlance series. It is one I much love myself as a matter of fact. She clearly takes joy in return to the books she wrote so long ago.
She is a capable writer, who presents colourful fun characters, in an interesting setting. It is run of the mill fantasy fiction, easy to read, and fun to do so.
Story
Destina Rosethorn heads off on an adventure to save her father. A compelling story, and one I was excited to delve into. She seemed like an interesting enough character, capable and young. A lot of promise laid ahead I thought.
However, I felt we didn't see the best of her, for the adventure she is thrust into. Maybe her growth as a character is expected in the next in this series (a book I probably wont read), but following one key event, she loses a lot of her roundness of a character, and becomes a bit drab, and even annoying at points, in my opinion.
We then enter a stage in this book where a lot of old faces, some long dead and lost return. Hints, call backs to the great original trilogy would have been perfect. But yeah, let those heroes remain there, and lets see new ones. This is something the book doesn't do, and I found pretty meh.
Final Thoughts
This story feels a bit cheap now. With all the unknown wonder of Kyrnn unexplored, returning to the old stories, and resurrecting old heroes feel lazy at best, and a cheap corporate cash-grab at worst.
A story with potential, the falters by not letting good heroes lie, spoiling their ride off into the sunset.
Style
[a:Margaret Weis|869|Margaret Weis|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] does a very capable job of writing Dragons of Deceit. A lot was expected from this book, after the decades without anything further written on the world of Krynn, and the vaunted Dragonlance series. It is one I much love myself as a matter of fact. She clearly takes joy in return to the books she wrote so long ago.
She is a capable writer, who presents colourful fun characters, in an interesting setting. It is run of the mill fantasy fiction, easy to read, and fun to do so.
Story
Destina Rosethorn heads off on an adventure to save her father. A compelling story, and one I was excited to delve into. She seemed like an interesting enough character, capable and young. A lot of promise laid ahead I thought.
However, I felt we didn't see the best of her, for the adventure she is thrust into. Maybe her growth as a character is expected in the next in this series (a book I probably wont read), but following one key event, she loses a lot of her roundness of a character, and becomes a bit drab, and even annoying at points, in my opinion.
We then enter a stage in this book where a lot of old faces, some long dead and lost return. Hints, call backs to the great original trilogy would have been perfect. But yeah, let those heroes remain there, and lets see new ones. This is something the book doesn't do, and I found pretty meh.
Final Thoughts
This story feels a bit cheap now. With all the unknown wonder of Kyrnn unexplored, returning to the old stories, and resurrecting old heroes feel lazy at best, and a cheap corporate cash-grab at worst.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Loved being back in the world of Dragonlance and had an absolute blast devouring this book - but didn’t find myself engaging with the actual story so much this time around.
Our heroine, Destina, frustrated me. She’s set up in the first act as a really well fleshed-out protagonist that you can’t help but relate to and feel sorry for but by the end of the book it’s like her actions don’t even stay true to who she was set up to be, and it gets harder and harder to root for her.
Add in the whole time-travel element with Tasslehoff that was already done well multiple times in the original series, and everything just feels a little like a shallow repetition of what I once fell in love with.
In saying all of that however, I love Weis and Hickman’s writing style. I loved reading a story set in Krynn again and I loved all of the callbacks and characters from stories of old. I also really dug the tension of the finale and really do hope that we see more from this series because even though this might’ve been a bit average, it has set up some very very exciting stuff.
Our heroine, Destina, frustrated me. She’s set up in the first act as a really well fleshed-out protagonist that you can’t help but relate to and feel sorry for but by the end of the book it’s like her actions don’t even stay true to who she was set up to be, and it gets harder and harder to root for her.
Add in the whole time-travel element with Tasslehoff that was already done well multiple times in the original series, and everything just feels a little like a shallow repetition of what I once fell in love with.
In saying all of that however, I love Weis and Hickman’s writing style. I loved reading a story set in Krynn again and I loved all of the callbacks and characters from stories of old. I also really dug the tension of the finale and really do hope that we see more from this series because even though this might’ve been a bit average, it has set up some very very exciting stuff.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I regret having read this. It is a direct sequel to the dragon lance books of my childhood (chronicles and the twins books) but you really can’t go home again. I struggled to finish this. It’s badly paced and mostly no fun.
Was a pretty slow book overall. Most of it was essentially a history of what happened in the last dozen books to catch up readers. Much of the early part, and even later parts, was very predictable. I'm not entirely sure where Weis & Hickman are planning on going with this series. It sometimes feels like a hard reset, but I don't think it is going to be. Could be an interesting series, but this book in particular feels like a tosser just because 75% of it is just re-explaining what already happened.
Very good. Classic Dragonlance feels while giving new stories to read over and over again
adventurous
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I never really cared about the story or the characters.