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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The Worst Dragonlance Book I've Read!, August 8, 2001
As an avid Dragonlance fan, I was severely disappointed with this novel. It had absolutely no bearing on any of Tanis' further adventures and didn't even begin to answer Tanis' questions about his father. ( BTW, for an EXCELLENT view of that tale, read "The Inheritance.) Tanis had stated in the Chronicles that he'd been in lands not friendly to elves, but this was set in an Elven village; the Red Robed mage was part human, part elf, and the only acceptable mages to elves are White Robes; and to add insult to injury we get bogged down in a sappy love story and end up in the place of Death, where apparently silver dragons get to breathe fire instead of the breath weapon of cold that they're born with! Makes you wonder if the authors read the original works at all. I'd love to see a well-written book about what happened to Tanis in the five years prior to the Chronicles, but this wasn't it.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Could have been better, January 19, 2002
As with quite a few of the Preludes and Meetings books, this seemed out of tune with the Chronicles view of Tanis. There is a certain way the Tanis talks and acts, but these authors couldn't quite seem to grasp it. The plot was slightly ridiculous. I find it difficult to believe Tanis would even consider starting on this adventure just to find news about his father. I don't usually object to a bit of love mixed into a story, but when it becomes the story to the exclusion of all else, I start to worry. The whole thing about Death was stupid. This, along with the rest of the happenings in the book, is never mentioned by Tanis in the Chronicles series. A lot of the Preludes are a bad conclusion to a good idea. In saying all this, I still enjoyed the first half of the book. The rest really set my teeth on edge.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very Dissapointing, November 27, 2008
This review is from: Tanis The Shadow Years (Dragonlance: Preludes Volume Six) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was utterly disappointing. I would have given it no stars if I could have in this rating. The way Tanis was portrayed, the way he acted and thought, have already been addressed in previous reviews and I must concur with them that his character was awfully represented. Still that wasn't the worst part of it for me. It was the little things, like having a wizard with powers to defeat an entire human army by himself, and Brandella accepting to travel with Tanis so easily when his idea made no sense at all, as well as the village of elves acting like humans. Don't get me wrong, I don't expect all elves to act with the arrogance the elven nobles are portrayed in some of the other DL books, but at least they should have some dignity in their actions and dialogs with one another. Then there is Huma and Fistandantilus in "Death". This place is clearly not the Abyss described in every other book, and what is Huma and Fistandantilus doing in the same place in the afterlife when the wizard is actually neither dead not fully alive in Krynn. All these things should drive you crazy if you are a true DL fan. Then there is the plot which is dull and totally irrelevant to Tanis' life. Overall this was a very bad book and I couldn't wait to finish it and get it over with. I didn't expect it to be the best book ever but was still highly disappointed in it. I believe Tanis deserves a better story with a decent plot and accurate details as one of the most influential characters in the continent of Ansalon.
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