Steel and Stone (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 5) [Mass Market Paperback]

Ellen Porath (Author)

Book Description

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

Hate At First Sight

The tempestuous affair of Kitiara Uth Matar and Tanis Half-Elven begins with the sword.

Life isn't simple for the hotheaded pair. They must contend with a carnivorous, two-headed troll; a deposed leader who believes Kitiara is the cause of the ruler's troubles; a vindictive mage who seeks peculiar vengeance; and Kit's hulking former lover. They also meet a beautiful magic-user hiding a painful secret, and a giant owl with a sardonic sense of humor.

Here is the long-awaited story of the meeting of Tanis and Kitiara, a tale of love, lust, betrayal, and revenge that takes the reader through Krynn and south to the glacial Icereach.

Ellen Porath, co-author of Kindred Spirits, tells this exciting new tale, the fifth in the Dragonlance Saga Meetings Sextet.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (September 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560763396
• ISBN-13: 978-1560763390
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #320,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #93 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Gaming > Dungeons & Dragons

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but lacking, November 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Steel and Stone (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

I'll admit it, I'm a Kit fan, one of the few from what I can tell. Anyway, I really liked this book for the insight it gave into Kitiara and Tanis's relationship, but I don't feel that it went into enough depth. That was really dissapointing. It also confuses the time frame of Steel's conception. Don't let this book through that out of wack for you. Its a good book, but it really isn't in line with the other books very well.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent, but..., April 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Steel and Stone (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is definitely better than Oath and Measure, so if you're reading the Meetings Sextet in order then at least things improve. The meeting between Tanis and Kitiara is VERY lacking in drama--they simply fall into each others arms in a mixture of battle and unexpected lust. This should have been handled much more carefully.

The non-Chronicles characters are extremely enjoyable in the sense that they add a depth to the novel and allow it to be an original story. However, the plot itself isn't very complex--a bad guy wants power, yawn. Also, there are almost too many other characters--I felt like the dynamic between the two mages could have been its own novel, but Ellen was "forced" to write about Tanis and Kit instead. As a result, neither relationship is developed appropriately.

Still, a decent read with good characters in a great realm.

2.0 out of 5 stars "Meetings Sextet" Limps Along With This Below Average Book, January 2, 2012

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This review is from: Steel and Stone (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

"Steel and Stone" is the fifth addition to the "Meetings Sextet"--a series that showed hints of early promise before falling flat and running out of gas. In this book, Ellen Porath--who had written the average first book in the sextet with another writer--takes on covering the meeting between Tanis Half Elven and Kitiara, two of the chief characters in the saga. What should have been an interesting tale falls flat as the book wanders off in too many directions, including a cast of solid secondary characters who, while charming, do little to move the plot along and a strange, convoluted epic journey. There is almost nothing that stands out in this book and little to commend it. "Steel and Stone" is one more below average Dragonlance book that most fans of the saga can miss without missing a beat.