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This is not my normal genre. I prefer biographies and historical fiction. However, I really enjoyed this book. The first book in the series took awhile to get into, but I jumped right into this story. There is plenty of action and good vs evil. The authors do such a good job with the characters, you can’t help but love them...especially Tas and Fizban. The action and humor and friendship makes this book a fun read.

doty91's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

chericeri's review against another edition

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4.0

**3.5 STARS**

lilyssynopsis's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

3.75

sboard's review against another edition

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3.0

I was relatively indifferent to Dragons of Autumn Twilight, which wasn't a bad book by any means but was heavily flawed and, quite honestly, just barely held my attention. I had heard that once the first adventure was out of the way, the following books start to feel less like D&D campaign diaries and more like fantasy novels.

I feel that to be an accurate description.

Dragons of Winter Night still isn't top-tier fantasy, but I found myself enjoying the story far more as the world of Krynn was further developed and characters which I found rather unlikeable in book 1 started to show more depth. All in all, this was a good book, better than the first, and I do want to see Dragonlance through to its conclusion.

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4.0

Truly, this book has everything. It doesn't shy away from using the classic fantasy tropes, cliches, and stereotypes. And for a fairly decent sized (but still such a small book), it's BUSY. But the way it's executed works. That's just what you expect when you go into a book like this. The feel of it is very different from other books of the genre, regardless of the time period it was written in. There must have been something about this book that prevented me from giving it five stars, but whatever it was, it was minor, because I still look back on this book fondly. Even though I absolutely do not look back on the edition I have very fondly (cheesy covers from the 80s are simply the BEST *rolls eyes*). Nevertheless, while it has its faults, it's still an excellent read, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants an easy to read fantasy story with fun, albeit tropey characters and plot.

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3.0

The party is split, kind of necessary with a big cast. Laurana really comes into her own in this one, gradually transforming from a follower to a leader (not to mention killing evil wizards with ice axes, standing up to her xenophobic father and people, and controlling a dragon orb). I never liked Sturm much back in the day (I found him boring) but I've come to appreciate the character more. Raistlin actually getting into and enjoying being a traveling illusionist is kind of fun and sad. It goes to show the kind of pleasant, easy life he could have enjoyed if only he wasn't so damned ambitious. He of course continues to cockblock poor sweet Tika and poor dumb Caramon. Goldmoon and Riverwind largely disappear, but they did get center stage of the first book. Tanis is kind of a fuckboy/sadboi in this one and I'm tired of his "oh the heavy mantel of leadership" and "oh my stupid love triangle" shit. Tas is great as always and gets to do An Heroic Thing. And we get the gnomes, steampunk mad scientists extraordinaire.

Sadly we also get racist elves (with elf-on-elf violence) and shitty corrupt bureaucratic knights, plus complacent "can't we just pay the dragon armies to go away? I'm late for the theater" Palanthas. It's frustrating to see everyone fail to come together against an overarching threat but living in the US during this pandemic has shown that it's sadly more realistic than I thought in previous times.*sad trombone*

I did not buy the insta-love between Sturm and Alhana, and Gilthanis sure did jump straight to marriage-and-baby-carriage dreams after knowing Silvara less than a week (and not knowing her well at all, turns out). Maybe they needed romance somewhere in here but I much rather enjoyed and bought into Laurana and Sturm's platonic closeness. I thought that was sweet.

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