Kendermore (Dragonlance: Preludes) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Mary Kirchoff (Author) "Oh, that!" exclaimed Tas, dimissing concern with a wave of his hand..." (more)
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Product Description
Before the War of the Lance, carefree kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot is enjoying the company of his friends at the Inn of the Last Home when a bounty hunter arrives and charges him with desertion for violating the kender laws of prearranged marriage. But Tasslehoff’s intended has pulled a disappearing act of her own. The race is on to see who gets dragged to the altar first in a tale of adventure replete with magic, monsters, and mayhem.


About the Author
Mary Kirchoff is the author of a number of Dragonlance novels, including Flint the King (with Douglas Niles) and the Defenders of Magic trilogy. Currently she is Vice President of Publishing at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (September 17, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880387548
• ISBN-13: 978-0880387545
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,688,026 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars So Many Major errors, September 9, 2002

By A Customer

I must confess that after several attempts to read this book, I finally gave up. I could not get past the MAJOR storyline errors. For example in the first chapter, they describe Tika as having short dark hair. Hair color may have been a minor point on everyone else EXCEPT Tika (What color is Flint's hair? or Tanis'?). It is stated again and again how she had RED hair. It is part of her personality and it is not a small throw away detail. Then Tanis and Flint have a conversation where they discuss how worried they are about Caramon and Raistlin and how Raistlin is too young to be going off to take The Test!! Nobody knew they were off to take The Test, and it was clearly stated that it was a secret, but even more, the friends were suprised at Raistlin when they first saw him in Autumn Twilight. Did no one involved in writing this book actually read Chronicles? If not the author, and there is no excuse for her not having read the source, but at least an editor, proofreader...someone. I tried to read past these points, but was blasted with small things like typos, or sentences being spoken by Tas referred to as "said the dwarf." I give up....maybe if I finally finish everything DL ever written, I might come back and try this one again.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Author needed to read up before writing this!, December 11, 2004

By	Novadistortion (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

First thing that hit me with this book was the downright stupidity required to say that Solinari is golden AND to also call it "Neutral." I don't think there is any excuse for this. That much was clearly laid out in all three of the original books, not to mention every single other piece of dragonlance literature I have ever seen. They even manage to get Tika's hair color wrong. I mean, they talk about her red hair several times in the other books. There really is no excuse.

Though I don't have the campaign setting, I am pretty sure that there aren't supposed to be any orcs on Krynn. Pretty much the only real villain in this book is supposed to be a half orc. There are also some orc based insults and the villain is identified by another character as being an orc.

The last thing about this book that irritates me is the fact that at the end you only find out what happens to a few of the characters. You don't ever find out what happens to the half orc villain, the gnomes, or the talking mammoth. Speaking of the mammoth and the gnomes, I found that part very childish and stupid. The gnomes acted like idiots far too many times, and the ease of everyones escape made me wonder how they managed to catch some of the more intelligent/dangerous creatures it says they have.

All in all, this book disappointed me.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Tas deserves better, September 29, 2003

By	... "vilbs" (Montreal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kendermore (Dragonlance: Preludes Volume Two) (Mass Market Paperback)

"Kendermore" has the dubious distinction of being the best novel in the Dragonlance Preludes trilogy.... I say dubious because that's more of a slam to the other two novels than a complement to this one. It's still not all that great a book, but is marginally saved by the overall quality of the character Tasslehoff Burrfoot. As has already been pointed out, the author clearly contradicts facts and character qualities already established in Chronicles, but nitpicking aside the plot just isn't all that hot.

It starts off decently enough, with Tas being nabbed by a bounty hunter and dragged back home to Kendermore, but it degenerates from there into a gnome ridden goofy mess. It's an immature and almost insultingly childish story that doesn't really give new insight or development to everybody's favorite kender. Tasslehoff is one of the most recognizable and consistently entertaining characters in the Dragonlance world, and to have this be "his" tale prior to the War of the Lance is doing him a great disservice.