Dragons of Spring Dawning (review)

by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Dragonlance Chronicles 3
← Dragons of Winter Night

Rating: 8,5/10

The darkness might conquer, but it could never extinguish hope. And though one candle — or many — might flicker and die, new candles would be lit from the old.
Thus hope's flame always burns, lighting the darkness until the coming of day.

The army of Takhisis, Queen of Darkness, conquer more and more lands, but now there are many who took to the field to face her.
In the meantime Berem, the Everman, slowly reveals his story, and we discover why his destiny is linked to the Queen.

Dragons of Winter Night

by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Dragonlance Chronicles 2
← Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Spring Dawning →

Rating: 9/10

Why was I different? Sturm wondered. But he knew the answer, even as he listened to the dwarf grumble. It's because of the dwarf, the kender, the mage, the half-elf. They had taught him to see the world through other, slanted eyes, smaller eyes, even hourglass eyes. Derek saw the world in stark black and white. Sturm had the world in all its radiant colors, in all its bleak grays.

The army of the Dark Queen advances gaining more and more land. Ours heroes view their task become increasingly difficult, and, facing a disappointment after another, they will find themselves eventually parting company, splitting up with the gruesome prediction by Raistlin: "Some of us are not destined to meet again in this world!"

Dragons of Autumn Twilight

by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Dragonlance Chronicles 1
Dragons of Winter Night →

Rating: 8,5/10

On the ground Huma lay, at his side a woman,
Her silver skin broken, the promise of green
Released from the gifts of her eyes. She whispered her name
As the Queen of Darkness banked in the sky above Huma.
(from Song of Huma)

A group of friends meet after five years of travel and research to take stock of their mission: Tanis (an half-elf), Flint Fireforge (a dwarf), Tasslehoff Burrfoot (a kender), Sturm (a Solamnic Knight) and the twins Raistlin and Caramon (a magician and a warrior). Unfortunately, their research has not been successful, almost all of them have returned empty-handed, just full of disappointment. But soon they realize that during their absence things have changed in the good old Solace, and probably the worst is yet to come.