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1.0 out of 5 stars
Boring, April 21 2002
By A Customer
This book needed a lot more work before being published. Firstly, the character point of view used is so distant that it is impossible to get any emotional relationship with the characters. Even when they do something interesting, they don't seem to be acting out of any motivation than that the plot needs it.
The writing style is full of cliche.
There are too many mysteries about the main character that are mentioned, then forgetten, the answers to which you can't even guess at. The villians are boring, and heros just peole who are there.
When there is an attempt to create something truly fantastic, it is surrounded by boring charaters, and enshrouded in so much mystery that it just seems silly. All the powers of the staff are stupid, we're supposed to beleive here's this guy and he has the most powerful thing ever made, this thing can put the staff of Magius to shame, but the guy just has, given to him by his Shalafi. Throughout the book were told he's taught how to fight by his shalafi, given the staff by his Shalafi. It's not fantastic writing, just silly, not believable.And the nonsense that he's Tanin's son. Instead of creating a charater that has an interesting points at all, the guy just claims to be Tanis's son, as if we should belive that (By his age we know that Tanis would have had to cheat on Laurana and I don't accept that) it's not said he's Tanis's son, the character claims it, but whether or not it's true has no impact on the story.
It's just so boring. Sol Stein who has written some amazing books on writing fiction says the job of the writer is to evoke emotion in the reader. At no part of the book is there any attempt to evoke any emotion. Perhaps we are supposed to get wrapped up in the action seens, but that are so contrived.
I only wrote this because I read the book after reading the other reviews. There are so many good books out there, read something written by an accomplished writer. I don't like saying bad things about writters, but Jeff Cook does not seem ready for novel writing, and this book remids me why I stoped reading every dragonlance book out there. Some of it's great, but the rest is just mass produced garbage that's made because TSR know if publish so many dragonlance books, they'll have so many sales.
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