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Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles #2)
by
Margaret Weis,
Tracy Hickman (Goodreads Author)
They won their first real battle in the war for Krynn, but the war has only just begun for the Companions! Friendships born in conflict will be torn apart. Hope will rest on the shoulders of a disgraced Knight and his two inexperienced companions. Worlds long divided by hatred and prejudice will either band together in a last struggle against darkness - or perish for all t...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
July 25th 2007
by Devil's Due Publishing
(first published 1985)
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Oct 11, 2008
Angel
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3 of 5 stars
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Shelves:
fantasy-and-speculative
The story of the companions continues as the war begins to pick up. Their quest now is to find the dragon orbs. They get separated, which leads to diverging paths. This book, in terms of the pacing, was a bit slower than the first volume. However, there are some twists towards the end, and the action picks up in the second half. The tone of this one is darker than the first, but that is a good thing as it keeps things interesting. There is a cliffhanger, assuring readers will return for the thir...more
The Companions have been separated, both by decision and by circumstance. The Queen of Darkness, Takhisis, has returned to the world and is preparing her armies to conquer as the second book in the DragonLance Chronicles trilogy, Dragons of Winter Night, begins. Clearly, a lot has happened since the last novel, and we are told about it rather than shown to save pages and time; much like the first novel in the trilogy, this one also begins heavily in media res and will leave you wondering what ha...more
In the movies, sequels - with a handful of exceptions - are never as good as the first film, and unfortunately this rings true in books with Winter Night being a pale comparison to Autumn Twilight. The story picks up 6 months after the end of the first book, and references to the events during this period only lightly touched on. In fact - and probably due to - this gap in storytelling, the first half of the book is disjointed, confusing and rather hastily progressed. Also the heroes are separat...more
This will be my same review for all 7 books in the original double-trilogy (plus the 7th add on years later).
There are few D&D novelizations out there that are really worth reading. Only two series have I loved, and the original 6 (became 7) "Dragonlance" novels are one of those great series. (Gord the Rogue is the other).
At first when I read this, I was a bit put off because the "Krynn" world did not "agree" with D&D. The gods had different names (Bahamut = Paladine, Tiamut = Takhesis)...more
There are few D&D novelizations out there that are really worth reading. Only two series have I loved, and the original 6 (became 7) "Dragonlance" novels are one of those great series. (Gord the Rogue is the other).
At first when I read this, I was a bit put off because the "Krynn" world did not "agree" with D&D. The gods had different names (Bahamut = Paladine, Tiamut = Takhesis)...more
Never have I encountered such a pronounced instance of- and this is symptomatic of an 'in-universe'-derived immunity on the part of the authors against technical fault- dialogue and descriptive passage providing a vision of plot events and character natures that is not borne out in the course of the novel as a whole- at all. Maybe X and Y are contrasting sets of values- Charles was raised X to the point of apparent racial hardwiring, is dedicated to them in spirit and reportedly in action- all t...more
The second book in the Dragonlance Trilogy series is a book that can not be put down! The story picks up with the companions after they have escaped Pax Tharkis and killed one of the Dragon Highlords. They fight their way across those country searching for answers to their questions, and find a way to win the war. The companions split up whilelooking for the mysterious dragon orbs and the long lost Dragonlances of children stories. Rasitlin continues to mysteriously get stronger as a strange voi...more
Dec 03, 2011
David Sarkies
rated it
1 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
Teenagers who like fantasy and want something easy to read.
Shelves:
fantasy
It seems as if the entire trilogy was written as one book but then divided into three, which is not surprising because the same thing happened with Lord of the Rings. However, that is not where the similarities end. First of all in this book we have the original companions from the first book suddenly split into two groups and wonder off on their own adventures, though it does not seem to bring them back together. We also learn of the Dragon Orbs which, to me, are suspiciously like the Palantir...more
Dec 04, 2009
trina
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
fantasy-loving nerds
Recommended to trina by:
evil evil chris
i read this in secret, because i was embarrassed, but now i am embarrassed that i was embarrassed and basically it's a vicious and hideous neverending cycle of guilt and shame. there are far more important books i could and should be reading. there are works of Great Literature on my shelf, glaring at me balefully while i devour these dragon books like a geeky ten year old boy. whatever, man. anyone who doesn't see the appeal of dragons and adventure and elves and dragons and shit just has no so...more
I read this when I was 15. At the time, I had no attention span, or reading skills and would get exhausted and let my eyes just wander down the pages. Tanis Half-elven is my favorite, and the scenes without him were boring. This was further justified when the characters would cry out "Why isn't Tanis here?!" which they do, a lot.
I just reread it at the age of 27. Wow. Previously Autumn Twilight was my favorite, and will always hold a special place in my heart. But I read it slower and more pati...more
I just reread it at the age of 27. Wow. Previously Autumn Twilight was my favorite, and will always hold a special place in my heart. But I read it slower and more pati...more
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Okay, so this rating merits some explanation, and I actually feel a little guilty about it, so bear with me. I mean, the writing and pacing and plotting in this book are just as good as they are in the others, and it's still a very entertaining read. But I have to give it fewer stars simply because of the way Weis and Hickman split the companions.
For the record, my favorite way to read the companions is when they're all together and playing off each other, like they were in the first book. But I...more
For the record, my favorite way to read the companions is when they're all together and playing off each other, like they were in the first book. But I...more
God, I reviewed the first part of the series a bit more favorably, but I like this less the more I read.
Where to start? The characters: two dimensional with a couple of glaring examples where their personalities magically take bizarre left-hand turns. Example: the main character (at least the leader) Tanis, comes across a woman he fell in love with a few years before. He gets the opportunity to sleep with her and then starts thinking about becoming evil and taking over the world for profit. Thi...more
Where to start? The characters: two dimensional with a couple of glaring examples where their personalities magically take bizarre left-hand turns. Example: the main character (at least the leader) Tanis, comes across a woman he fell in love with a few years before. He gets the opportunity to sleep with her and then starts thinking about becoming evil and taking over the world for profit. Thi...more
B&N Synopsis:
"They won their first real battle in the war for Krynn, but the war has only just begun for the Companions! Friendships born in conflict will be torn apart. Hope will rest on the shoulders of a disgraced Knight and his two inexperienced companions. Worlds long divided by hatred and prejudice will either band together in a last struggle against darkness - or perish for all time."
Excellent second book in the series. For those tempted to skip the long poem in the beginning - I do n...more
"They won their first real battle in the war for Krynn, but the war has only just begun for the Companions! Friendships born in conflict will be torn apart. Hope will rest on the shoulders of a disgraced Knight and his two inexperienced companions. Worlds long divided by hatred and prejudice will either band together in a last struggle against darkness - or perish for all time."
Excellent second book in the series. For those tempted to skip the long poem in the beginning - I do n...more
2 1/2
Slower pace and even more jumpy than the first. It seemed like a lot of the story was cut for this one as we join the action months later, and some stuff felt open and unexplained. Definitely missing on characterization in this one.
The art is still good, but seemed different - characters looked a bit off, even tho it's the same artist. And we're introduced to even more characters in an already laden cast. Also, a lot of characters look too similar, making it even harder to tell them apart....more
Slower pace and even more jumpy than the first. It seemed like a lot of the story was cut for this one as we join the action months later, and some stuff felt open and unexplained. Definitely missing on characterization in this one.
The art is still good, but seemed different - characters looked a bit off, even tho it's the same artist. And we're introduced to even more characters in an already laden cast. Also, a lot of characters look too similar, making it even harder to tell them apart....more
In the second book of the DragonLance Chronicles, the companions continue on their mission to find out what has brought the evil dragons back, and try to bring the world's races together. This is proving harder than anticipated because of centuries old prejudices and hatreds that have festered causing rifts in any defenses that may have been put together.
As the evil dragon army advances across the face of Krynn, the companions are forced to split up. The author does a very good job of staying wi...more
As the evil dragon army advances across the face of Krynn, the companions are forced to split up. The author does a very good job of staying wi...more
this book is a good step into the end of the series. In this story the companions are faced with many hardships and challenges to overcome. They are in search of the legendary dragons orbs in hopes of turning the tides of the war and hopefully saving themselves from certain destruction. " You were seasick." " sticken with a deadly disease," Flint repeated loudly. There are many hardships that these friends have to face apart from each other. i think it was very well written and uses a lot of lan...more
A fantastic sequel to Dragons of Autumn Twilight! I was happy to catch up with the characters from book 1 as they continued their quest through the ups and downs of life as a hero. After finding the Hammer of Kharas and uniting the dwaves they leave the dwarven depths passing the plains to find a ship in Tarsis to sail the humans rescued from the red dragons to a place of refuge, the group finds their plans spoiled after finding Tarsis landlocked. After an almost tragic incident and meet Alhanna...more
This was the very first fantasy series (more than a single book, in which case my first single fantasy book was "Spellfire" a forgotten realms book by Ed Greenwood)
I read this book and I fell in love with it and fantasy literature as a result. As a teenager reading this for the first time it profoundly moved me and inspired my interest in the genre. Without going into detail (no spoilers here), toward the end of the book certain (epic) events occur (touching on the various themes of virtues/tra...more
I read this book and I fell in love with it and fantasy literature as a result. As a teenager reading this for the first time it profoundly moved me and inspired my interest in the genre. Without going into detail (no spoilers here), toward the end of the book certain (epic) events occur (touching on the various themes of virtues/tra...more
4.0 stars. These books are a ton of fun and I think they are really well done. The heroes are larger than life, the villians are mega evil and Raistlin, who is a little of both, steals the show. Highly entertaining and highly recommended!!
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This second book in the series felt a bit dislocated from the first and third books. It has a dream-like atmosphere of unreality, for several reasons. First, many of the true background action stories happen "off-camera" as it were. We start this book several months after the conclusion of the first one, and find out that our companions we still feel only luke-temperature feelings towards because their character developments are so neglected in the first book went off and had a major campaign ad...more
DragonLance: Chronicles and Legends are two trilogies that hold a really special place in my heart. So much so that I can't really divvy them up into separate reviews. I don't even think I could give an objective review of the books.
But if I know this: if I've had to replace a book from over-reading, that's amazing. I've had to replace these 6 books so many times that I keep spare copies around just in case. True story.
Chronicles Trilogy:
But if I know this: if I've had to replace a book from over-reading, that's amazing. I've had to replace these 6 books so many times that I keep spare copies around just in case. True story.
Chronicles Trilogy:
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragon
To anybody interested in the Dragonlance Saga, this trilogy is definitely the place to start and an essential read. To others, it may not stand out too much. There is one thing you cannot deny: they are fun. Autumn Twilight will always be a favorite of mine and getting to know the characters and the setting has a feeling reminiscent of (but not overly derivitive of) Tolkein's Fellowship. It is, however, a D&D book and if you are not a fanboy/girl then you won't get quite the same rush I thin...more
To me, this is my Lord of the Rings. It is a fabulous story about a mixed race group that go on the save the world mission that every story like this has. It his modern and easy to read and has great characters that you can really get into. You may even find yourself liking a couple of the bad guys in this one. The series is so long, and has so many side books that are connected to this story line that you can have fun in this world for a long time. It is a generational story so you are with som...more
The book picks up where Autumn Twilight left off. From there it breaks one of the cardinal rules of D&D; Don't Split The Party! They do this not once but twice, after the group is brought back together they part ways again. The story takes two separate courses while dealing with the overall plot. I wasn't excited by this because now I had to read entire sections of a book about characters I either a) felt indifferent toward or b) found annoying. That is until Mr. Sturm "my honor is my life"...more
I probably screwed up on this. This was just a graphic novel that I picked up off the shelf at the library. It doesn't clearly show that it is the second of a trilogy, otherwise I would have tracked down the first one. So, I should then reserve judgment on certain aspects of the plot and the characters which I found uninteresting, because I was probably missing critical contextual information. However, that doesn't excuse the art, which was pretty bad. And beyond that, just the layout of the pan...more
This review cover the trilogy :
Outstanding characters well suited for fans of the original D&D game. Signature spells and classic characters are abound in this series and it is extremely satisfying to see them in action. I felt the characters represented all the persona’s I love to take on in fantasy, Noble, good but unbound, simple strong and good, humorous, dark yet redeemable. It layers some shades of grey good vs. evil within a backdrop of clear cut good an evil which allows the authors...more
Outstanding characters well suited for fans of the original D&D game. Signature spells and classic characters are abound in this series and it is extremely satisfying to see them in action. I felt the characters represented all the persona’s I love to take on in fantasy, Noble, good but unbound, simple strong and good, humorous, dark yet redeemable. It layers some shades of grey good vs. evil within a backdrop of clear cut good an evil which allows the authors...more
My husband made me read these books because he loved them when he was young. It took awhile for the series to take off for me, but then I really enjoyed it. I don't think the writing quality is anywhere near some of my other favorite fantasy authors, but I liked it well enough. I COULD put it down, though. I read the annotated volume which was somewhat distracting. There are several other books in the Dragonlance family that he is pushing me to read now. I may eventually do so, but there are def...more
Drugi tom "Kronik Lancy" przynosi nam dalsze dzieje drużyny, która na swoje barki wzięła walkę ze zła królową Thakhisis i jej Smoczymi Władcami.
Jeśli pierwszy tom wyglądał na zapis z sesji, drugi rozwija się w powieść, niż relację. Bohaterowie zaczynają nabierać wyrazistości: widać to po tym, jak starzeje się Krzemień, po stosunkach Caramona z Raistlinem i szczególnie po ewolucji tego ostatniego. Kulminacyjnym punktem jest śmierć Sturma, która została napisana w poruszający sposób. Nic dziwnego,...more
Jeśli pierwszy tom wyglądał na zapis z sesji, drugi rozwija się w powieść, niż relację. Bohaterowie zaczynają nabierać wyrazistości: widać to po tym, jak starzeje się Krzemień, po stosunkach Caramona z Raistlinem i szczególnie po ewolucji tego ostatniego. Kulminacyjnym punktem jest śmierć Sturma, która została napisana w poruszający sposób. Nic dziwnego,...more
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Margaret Edith Weis is a fantasy novelist who, along with Tracy Hickman, is one of the original creators of the Dragonlance game world and has written numerous novels and short stories set in the world of Krynn. She graduated from the University of Missouri–Columbia and now lives in southern Wisconsin in a converted barn. Most recently, she has completed the third novel in the Dragonvarld trilogy...more
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“How do you know they're magic and not some mechanical device of the dwarves?" Tanis asked, sensing that Tas was hiding something.
Tas gulped. He had been hoping Tanis wouldn't ask him that question.
"Uh," Tas stammered, "I---I guess I did sort of happened to, uh, mention them to Raistilin one night when you were all busy doing something else. He told me they might be magic. To find out, he said one of those weird spells of his and they--uh--began to glow. That meant they were enchanted. He asked me what they did and I demonstated and he said they were 'glasses of true seeing.' The dwarven magic-users of old made them to read books written in other languages and--" Tas stopped.
"And?" Tanis pursued.
"And--uh--magic spellbooks." Tas's voice was a whisper.
"And what else did Raistlin say?"
"That if I touched his spellbooks or even looked at them sideways, he'd turn me into a cricket and s-swallow m-me whole," Tasselhoff stammered. He looked up at Tanis with his wide eyed. "I belived him, too."
Tanis shook his head. Trust Raistlin to come up with a threat awful enough to quensh the curiosity of a kender.”
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Tas gulped. He had been hoping Tanis wouldn't ask him that question.
"Uh," Tas stammered, "I---I guess I did sort of happened to, uh, mention them to Raistilin one night when you were all busy doing something else. He told me they might be magic. To find out, he said one of those weird spells of his and they--uh--began to glow. That meant they were enchanted. He asked me what they did and I demonstated and he said they were 'glasses of true seeing.' The dwarven magic-users of old made them to read books written in other languages and--" Tas stopped.
"And?" Tanis pursued.
"And--uh--magic spellbooks." Tas's voice was a whisper.
"And what else did Raistlin say?"
"That if I touched his spellbooks or even looked at them sideways, he'd turn me into a cricket and s-swallow m-me whole," Tasselhoff stammered. He looked up at Tanis with his wide eyed. "I belived him, too."
Tanis shook his head. Trust Raistlin to come up with a threat awful enough to quensh the curiosity of a kender.”
“Raistlin leaned forward almost unconsciously, his hand stretched out, trembling, to touch the wondrous hair that seemed possessed of a life of its own, so vibrant and luxuriant was it. Then, seeing before his eyes his own dying flesh, he withdrew his hand quickly and sank back in his chair, a bitter smile on his lips. For what Laurana did not know, could not know, was that, in looking at her, Raistlin saw the only beauty he would ever see in his lifetime. Young, by elven standards, she was untouched by death or decay, even in the mage's cursed vision.”
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