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It is Krynn's darkest hour as the great dragon overlords threaten enslavement. But a handful of humans refuse to surrender. Spurred on by the famed sorcerer Palin Majere, and armed with an ancient dragonlance, they dare to stand up to the overlords.

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JEAN RABE is the author of The Dawning of a New Age, The Day of the Tempest, The Eve of the Maelstrom, The Silver Stair, Downfall, and Betrayal. Rabe lives in Wisconsin. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

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The increasing pressure of the cool blue water snapped Dhamon awake. Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars Picking up steam, May 3 2004

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Christopher Watts (Surprise, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Day of the Tempest: Dragons of a New Age, Volume Two (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was far better than the first. A lot of important things are now happening in the dragonlance world and everything is going at a break neck pace. I was very pleased to see that the characters from the first book are being given a lot more depth. New characters are entering in from different sources. This pick has a style very simaler to the Chronicles trilogy. There is a LOT that goes on.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Day of The tempest, April 11 2003

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Adam (IL,USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Day of the Tempest: Dragons of a New Age, Volume Two (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is likley to satasfy you even more than the one preceding it, The Dawning of a New Age, though not as good as the book following it ,The Eve of the Malestrom. I recomend this book highly and know any of the people reading this would enjoy every word.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Better than the first book in the series., Mar 10 2003

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Christopher Ware (Fremont, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Day of the Tempest: Dragons of a New Age, Volume Two (Mass Market Paperback)

The first thing I noticed in this book was Rabe's heavy handed way of recapping the previous book. Presumably, readers will know that this is the second book in a trilogy and will have read the first book. This being the case, Rabe goes into way too much detail in her recounting of what occurred previously. And it wasn't done subtly, either. Authors such as Jordan and Goodkind have taken this type of thing and elevated it to an art. Unfortunately, Ms. Rabe doesn't take that approach here and it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Fortunately, by the time we get to around page 100, it seems that Rabe has finally found her voice. The clunky prose and awkward dialogue that plagued the first book have almost completely disappeared by the end of this one. Her narration becomes much more smooth and her characters speak like actual people. Most of the time. There are still a few rough spots to be navigated, but the improvement is definitely noticeable.

The story itself is very engaging as well. The trials and tribulations of the characters and how they deal with them made me want to keep reading. I wanted to see how everything was going to end up. There is a twist or two at the end that I wasn't expecting and those made me want to immediately pick up the third book and start reading. Rabe is able to accomplish, in the last half of the book, what she wasn't able to do in the first book and a half: get me to care about the characters. Not up to the level of Weis and Hickman, but enough that I began rooting for them rather than just following along.

Readers disappointed in the first book in the series have something to look forward to here. Rabe's writing improves immensely, which makes for a much more enjoyable book. Since this is a pivotal storyline in the new Fifth Age and should be read before moving onto Weis & Hickman's War of Souls trilogy, this is important for all Dragonlance fans. If she continues her improvement, the world of Ansalon will have a great new voice to add to the chronicles of the land and its characters.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A poor attempt at a Dragonlance book
This book was a little better than the first in the series. However, it was awful. Its too far fetched even for a fantasy, and especially for trying to be a Dragonlance fantasy... Read more

Published on Sep 28 2002 by jax

4.0 out of 5 stars The Day of the Tempest
Jean Rabe did a masterful job with these books. Not only are they fun any interesting to read, but they don't have many chapters were nothing is happening. Read more

Published on Jun 21 2002 by D. Pachal