Dark Heart (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 3) [Mass Market Paperback]

Tina Daniell (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Meetings Sextet | Publication Date: January 1, 1992

Obsession

At long last, the story of the beautiful dark-hearted Kitiara Uth Matar. This compelling novel tells the story of the birth of her twin brothers, the warrior Caramon and the frail mage Raistlin, and Kit's admirable role in their upbringing.

But her youthful mercenary deeds and increasing fascination with evil throw her into the company of a roguish stranger and band of adventurers whose fates are intermingled with her own. Haunted by the memory of her Solamnic father, she hunts him ceaselessly.

Tina Daniell's first novel brings to life this remarkable warrior-woman, whose credo of "the sword is truth" becomes her triumph and downfall.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 310 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (January 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560761164
• ISBN-13: 978-1560761167
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #251,888 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #70 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Gaming > Dungeons & Dragons

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected, June 2, 1999

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This review is from: Dark Heart (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is A good book if you want to know about Kitiara and her early days of roaming. I found it exeedingly boring. It tells about Kitiara, yes, but it doesnt lead anywhere and the ending was stupid and dull. First she meets this band of outlaws and she gets in trouble with them. Then she has anoter adventure with absolutely no connection, then she meets up with them again, then she goes off and has some irrelavent romance with this guy and then she has the final battle with the group of outlaws and by the time you get to the end, you're just plain bored.

2.0 out of 5 stars Below Average Addition to the Dragonlance Saga, August 30, 2011

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Kevin M. Derby (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dark Heart (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

While I have been reading the Dragonlance books for more than 25 years now, I generally avoid the books that focus on the main characters--the Companions--that were not written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. "Dark Heart" by Tina Daniell serves as a reminder why. Daniell has a journalistic and non-fiction background and it shows. You can write literature that way--look at Hemingway--but the style simply does not do well with fantasy novels.

Daniell shows some familiarity with the world of Krynn in the book but there are holes in the continuity--which Weis cleared up in "The Soulforge" by basically ignoring the entire Meetings Sextet out of existence. There are some charming moments here but Kitiara is not the most solid of leads (even Weis and Hickman struggled with her in the spotlight in "Dragons of Highlord Skies"). It may tell you something that Raistlin--even as a 4 year old--steals the spotlight from Kitiara. She simply is not a compelling lead.

If there was a solid plot, it would make up for the lack of a compelling lead. But the story is weak and the book rambles on with little direction. Daniell takes us way too much in the head of Kitiara and lets her thoughts dictate the story. It's annoying.

While not the total failure that some of the other Dragonlance books are, "Dark Heart" does nothing to add to the saga. While a weak book, it is not offensively bad and there are much worse books in the series. Be warned. The book is poorly edited--with messed up geographic names and a few punctuation errors.

3.0 out of 5 stars A book you should read, September 13, 2004

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B. Smetzer (Smithsburg, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dark Heart (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

A good Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet books. If you like the Dragonlance series than you should diffently read it.