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A review by scroggin_cooper
Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
2.0
2.5/5
Eeeeh, das ist sehr schlecht!
Liked:
1. Some permanent death. Well, that's a nice change. We actually have some permanent death in Sturm, whom I genuinely thought was going to survive to the end.
2. The gnomes. The gnomes were kinda cool, I like that they were little tinkerers and how they kept the Dragon Orb.
Now to the bad stuff.
Dislike:
1. The sheer amount of characters. This book has way too many characters. Now that isn't necessarily a bad thing, my favorite series, the Wheel of Time has thousands of characters, but that is across a fifteen-book-long series. This is a trilogy. There are long stretches of chapters where I completely forgot some of the characters were even still alive. There are chapters where they don't say a word, Hell, not even mentioned. For about half of the book, I thought Goldmoon and Riverwind were both dead, which I wouldn't have minded, since I don't like either of them.
2. The 'oh, it was all a dream,' shock. This might be writing law 4 that I will never violate. The entire dream sequence where a good half of the party was massacred was something I was loving so much because it would've been some great stuff for development and shaved down the party. But no, it had to be a FUCKING DREAM SEQUENCE!!! JESUS H. CHRIST!
3. Tika tagging along. Why is Tika here? I understand her home is gone, but why is she here with everyone else?
4. The lack of character development. I understand that this is in 1980s fantasy, but I'd expect for there to be at least someone other than Tanis to have at least some garlic of character. Tanis' confliction was quite interesting, having to pick between Kitara and his other friends, but no one else has any other development. Tas is still annoying, Laurana's still very honorable, and Flint's stubborn as a jackass.
Scared to see if this last book can redeem this series.
Eeeeh, das ist sehr schlecht!
Liked:
1. Some permanent death. Well, that's a nice change. We actually have some permanent death in Sturm, whom I genuinely thought was going to survive to the end.
2. The gnomes. The gnomes were kinda cool, I like that they were little tinkerers and how they kept the Dragon Orb.
Now to the bad stuff.
Dislike:
1. The sheer amount of characters. This book has way too many characters. Now that isn't necessarily a bad thing, my favorite series, the Wheel of Time has thousands of characters, but that is across a fifteen-book-long series. This is a trilogy. There are long stretches of chapters where I completely forgot some of the characters were even still alive. There are chapters where they don't say a word, Hell, not even mentioned. For about half of the book, I thought Goldmoon and Riverwind were both dead, which I wouldn't have minded, since I don't like either of them.
2. The 'oh, it was all a dream,' shock. This might be writing law 4 that I will never violate. The entire dream sequence where a good half of the party was massacred was something I was loving so much because it would've been some great stuff for development and shaved down the party. But no, it had to be a FUCKING DREAM SEQUENCE!!! JESUS H. CHRIST!
3. Tika tagging along. Why is Tika here? I understand her home is gone, but why is she here with everyone else?
4. The lack of character development. I understand that this is in 1980s fantasy, but I'd expect for there to be at least someone other than Tanis to have at least some garlic of character. Tanis' confliction was quite interesting, having to pick between Kitara and his other friends, but no one else has any other development. Tas is still annoying, Laurana's still very honorable, and Flint's stubborn as a jackass.
Scared to see if this last book can redeem this series.