This was the first Dragonlance book I ever hated. So very disappointing. I had been reading Dragonlance books since the first three books had come out, had followed the Chronicles and the Legends, the Tales and the Heroes. Had even followed the second Tales and the second Heroes. And then I picked this one up. Cool amethyst cover. A story from the days before the Chronicles began. Sounded good to me.

It was terrible. Sorry, Paul, but really. Not only did it completely lack the Krynn / Dragonlance feel, but the subject matter was ludicrous and annoying. At one point, if I remember correctly, Tasslehoff travels on a gnome spaceship and lands on the red moon Lunitari and has some adventures there. Seriously. The fricking moon.

The first in a LONG, much too long series of Dragonlance disappointments. I stopped even trying almost ten books later. I was aghast to hear recently that the series has grown to more than 200 books -- I shudder to imagine how bad it's gotten. I keep hearing talk about the Companions' kids, Knights of Solamnia becoming allies with some dark Knights of Takhisis, some cheesy One True God that throws the whole cosmology of Krynn retroactively on its head, and something called Taladas... glad I stopped when I did.