Customer Reviews

Vinas Solamnus (Dragonlance Lost Legends, Vol. 1)

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This was an excellent book - One of the best i've read to date from the DragonLance series, and i've been an avid reader for about 8 years. The story was very well told, very interesting, and the first few chapters really drew my interest. So much, in fact, that I read the entire book in one sitting. The book relates the story of Vinas Solamnus, who, while a relatively important figure in the DragonLance series, was barely touched upon until now. I'd recommend this tale to any experienced DragonLance reader.

This was a good Dragonlance book and one of the things I loved about it was that you don't need to be a major DL fanatic to like this book, the story was still there (perhaps it wasn't as meaningful) even if you haven't read the mainstream DL novels yet. The only thing I didn't like in this novel was the swift ending, it seemed like King started to write just to finish the story and stopped writing to tell the story. The very end was way too short and the way that Ergoth was taken care of seemed a bit cheap. But other than those few down points, this novel is totally worth reading.

This book is more about Vinas Solamnus than the Knightshood and it's founding. I found that the story might have been better if the writer had written it much longer, maybe even another book. We skip constantly by 6-15 year leaps in the early parts of the book, which made the character two-dimensional. A good book but buy at your own risk. Huma was much better!

I decided to buy this book only because it was a dragonlance. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was. Vinas starts out as a fighter for good. His old man dies so he becomes evil. After years of fighting for the evil empire of Ergoth he becomes a rebel and fights for good again. The only mention of the knights of Solamnia is on the very last page. I didn't care though. The battle scenes in this book were detailed and fast paced. A definite buy.

Easily one of the most deep, complex DL novels out there. I loved Legend of Huma, but I really like the fact that the founder of the Solamnic Knights did not at all start out as being a pure-of-heart kind of character. He really was a shell of a man that he should have been. Every chapter ends with a diary entry from Vinus, written to his dead father. One of the most powerful parts of the book was the shortest journal entry, written about how he just put down a rebellion and killed the leader of said rebellion. Can't remember the rebel leaders name, let's just say it's Frank. The journal entry simply says, "You would loved Frank, Father. He was the man I was supposed to be".

Everyone likes to think they are a good person, whether they really are or not. This is the awakening of the character, seeing himself through his dead father's eyes, and realizing what he's become. It's a beautiful story of falling, and the redemption that follows.

Easily 5 stars.

One great flaw of this book: haste.

It seems that the auctor had some deadline issue or delivery date, because at the half of the book to the end there is a "rush" feeling. Many events could have been better explored, and the timeline could have advanced to the moment Vinas wrote the oath and measure.

Beside this great little flaw the book is entertaining, but don't expect much of it. Read and put it on the bookshelves.

i've always been interested in the Solamnic Knights, ever since i was first introduced to Sturm Brightblade in Chronicles. When i found out that there was actually a book written on the founder of the knights, i was so excited, and i decided that i had to read it.

Although it didn't focus on actually creating the knights, as i thought it would, it was still an excellent story. I love how Vinas Solamnus was portrayed as not always being the "model-knight", but that he was also seduced by evil. It makes him seem more like a real person, and like like a character out of a child's fariytale.

I really loved this book. For most of the story Vinas is rather evil, and then he changes. It was cool to know that even the legendary founder of the Solamnic Knoghts wasn't a perfect person. I did think it should have included more about the forming of the Knighthood, though. It would have been better longer.

Wow, This book goes WAY back to give us the tale of the very first Knight of Solamnia. Wonderfully written, but you should definitly check out the Dragonlance Chronicles first.

This book takes place over an entire lifetime of the title character. 10 to 20 years will sometimes pass between chapters.

Very entertaining book with great action and above average character development. I recommend to anyone looking for a good fantasy book that deals very little with magic or magical creatures (although there is magic and magical characters in the book, just not many).

This was a good and intresting book. I read it in a week, considering I had school and work, but one of the best. I rank it with some of the best, including the first three. I will admit it got a little boring at some points, but for only like a page or two. It was good from the start where he and his friend try to get into the Army. It was kind of in a hurry towards the end and I am sure the arthuor could of wrote a couple more hundred pages just to finish it and give good depth. The sad part is that I thought it would tell of the first years of the knighthood, but told you more of how the knighthood became. I recommend it to all DL lovers and anyone intrested in the Order of the KoS. It was one of those books that after your read it, it makes you feel glad that you read it.