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Before the Mask (Dragonlance: Villains #1)
Source: Copyright deposit, July 1, 1993.
Paperback, 312 pages
Published
April 7th 1993
by TSR
(first published April 1993)
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This is the story of Verminaard, unloved bastard son of Solamnic Knights, and his road to evil. My husband adores the Dragonlance series and insisted I read this. He'd finished it in a weekend, so surely I, the voracious reader, would speed through as well. He was wrong. Though far from being a bad book, it just didn't draw me in. Verminaard's evilness seems to be inborne rather than reactionary, to the point that the supposed contributing factors - the unloving father, the loss of the beloved b...more
Jun 20, 2007
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Before the Mask is the first book in the Villains series set in the Dragonlance setting. The series focuses on the villains highlighted in the Chronicles trilogy by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis.This book focuses on the Dragon Highlord Verminaard and his ascent from an innocent child to one of the Dark Queen’s most famous dragon highlords. The book starts off with the birth of Verminaard and picks up several years later when her is a child. After this the author skips up a few years to when he...more
This book was terrably written, it took me over a year to finnaly finished the thing. It is written the way an essay would be written. Nothing is exciting, its like the story teller is simply stating facts. If I had to compare this book to anything I would say its like the worst, and most borring, history book you can imagine.
However, the story that is told I found I really wanted to hear, which is why I acctually finished it. The story of young Verminaard was something I thought was great.
If y...more
However, the story that is told I found I really wanted to hear, which is why I acctually finished it. The story of young Verminaard was something I thought was great.
If y...more
Villian tales for so much fun. This book is nice and dark. A pure delight. =-)
the life and times of the dragon highlord Verminaard
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Michael Williams is an American author. He is known for his Dragonlance novels.
Williams was born and lives in Louisville, Kentucky. He has lived in Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Ireland and England. His first novel, Weasel's Luck, was published in 1988. Currently, Williams teaches Humanities at the University of Louisville.
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Williams was born and lives in Louisville, Kentucky. He has lived in Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Ireland and England. His first novel, Weasel's Luck, was published in 1988. Currently, Williams teaches Humanities at the University of Louisville.
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