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A review by poisonenvy
Brothers Majere by Kevin Stein
3.0
It was fine. Caramon and Raistlin were refreshingly IC for much of it (we except the entire middle of the novel, which I'll chalk up to see sort of spell of some sort), and it was nice that it made nods to other Dragonlance books through the walls of Mereklar.
Plotwise it was entertaining, though the entire last chapter is just a giant exposition dump for things that weren't clearly shown in the novel. There were some mildly confusing POV switches. It can get pretty adverb heavy at points (tip for writers: every sentence does not need to have an adverb in it) There were points that were bad, but over all its a decent read for anyone who loves Dragonlance and doesn't think too hard about continuality errors (though if you do, the Preludes and the Meetings Sextant are not the series for you).
I did enjoy the first half of the book more than the last half, but that's not to say the last half was necessarily bad.
Plotwise it was entertaining, though the entire last chapter is just a giant exposition dump for things that weren't clearly shown in the novel. There were some mildly confusing POV switches. It can get pretty adverb heavy at points (tip for writers: every sentence does not need to have an adverb in it) There were points that were bad, but over all its a decent read for anyone who loves Dragonlance and doesn't think too hard about continuality errors (though if you do, the Preludes and the Meetings Sextant are not the series for you).
I did enjoy the first half of the book more than the last half, but that's not to say the last half was necessarily bad.