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A Rumor of Dragons: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Vol. 1 (Dragonlance Chronicles, Part 1)

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I fell in love with Dragonlance years ago with the original Chronicles trilogy, of Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Winter Night, and Spring Dawning. I recently purchased the first of Kid friendly books for my younger brother. They were edited with the more adult themes taken out and had a few new works of art. But the problem is that they are the same price as the one original. So you are paying the full price of the full book for half the book. Even though this makes no sense I am glad that a new Genereation of young Adventurers will be able to travel Krynn!
All in all a great book that might not be as hard as a full novel for children to read, but if you are older just buy the originals. Thanx!

Overall, this series makes for wonderful reading. However, the sexual content is inappropriate for the age group (8-13 years) of readers it is directed at. I found myself editing some of the content while reading to my son.

This book is about a midevil land that is being taken over by evil. The worlds only hope is two great warriors, a kender two barbarin warriors a half-elf and a dwarf. If you have read any of the Deltora quest book and liked them you are sure to like this book. You should probley by 10 or older to read this book. and mabey theres a rumer of a dragon in are world to.

It was intresting but the part about flint leaving at the lake is weird when there are hordes of goblins after them.When they entered the swamp and the dwarf fell in a hole and the rest walked over it was weird but it was cool when the dragon attacked from the well. Its a great book but there are some wierd spots.

How does a meeting of a small group of companions separated by fate erupt into a mystical, wondrous tale of magic, heroes and evil? Eight heroic companions on the world of Krynn were created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, and they did a wonderful job of continuing the DragonLance tale.
The tale begins in Solace, in the Inn of the Last Home, with the characters slowly coming into the building to meet once again. They share stories with a mysterious old man and two plainspeople, Goldmoon and Riverwind, who turn out to be very civil.
I really enjoyed this tale, because it is full of mysteries and suspenseful events that will keep you interested and wanting to read more. Once you begin the book, you won't want to put it down until you find out what happens to Tanis Half-Elven and his friends.
Tanis and his friends reunite at the inn of the last home in Solace, meet two mystical people and embark on a quest for knowledge which becomes a life threatening struggle for the disks of life, mystical artifacts of healing, which are guarded by a dark dragon minion under the influence of Verminaard Dragonbane.
This is a great book, but there are two parts that I don't like.
If there was a backstory explaining the journey and lives of the characters, it would be a lot easier to understand. Also, the ending leaves you hanging on to what will happen to the companions so that you have to go out and buy the next sequel.

This book is awesome and is very descriptive. it has a good plot as well

I absolutly luved this book! It is awesome! Only thing I didn't like was that it stopped right at the end so I had to rush to a bookstore and get the next ones. :)Anyway, it is really cool and the plot is exciting.

These are great adventures, and I have enjoyed reading them to my pre-teen/early teen kids. However, whoever edited these books for a younger audience ought to have his or her head examined. The number of explicit allusions to sex, rape, arousal, instances of characters calling each other "bastard", etc., is disturbing in a series supposedly targeted at younger readers. Any editor with half a brain ought to have taken such things out or else "softened" the wording. It would have done no harm to the great story to have edited out such needlessly explicit and/or graphic details.

I therefore got into the habit of previewing each chapter and flagging anything to be skipped before reading them aloud. It's really too bad this wasn't done by the editor! Such passages and terms don't occur that frequently, but it's best to be prepared for them all the same.

Bear in mind also that a lot of bloodshed and death is included in this story as well, along with numerous references to the gods and goddesses of Krynn, who are "real" in this fantasy world. To me, it is a fascinating trip into a mythological world created by the authors, as entertaining as Homer's Odyssey and the like.

But as to some of the content, parents, be warned.