Dragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance Chronicles, Book 3)
Dragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance Chronicles, Book 3)
The war against the dragon minions of Queen Takhisis rages on. Armed with the mysterious, magical dragon orbs and the shining, silver dragonlance, the companions bring hope to the world. But now, in the dawn of a new day, the dark secrets that have long shadowed the hearts of the friends come to the light. Betrayal, treachery, frailty, and weakness will nearly destroy all that they have accomplished.
The greatest battle they have left to fight is within each of them.
Yet, in the end, they will be heroes.
The final installment in Weis and Hickman’s Chronicles series–Dragonlance’s undisputed must-read trilogy–brings on the main event: the Companions vs. the dragons in a knock-down drag-out at the iron works of Pax Tharkas, as the fate of Krynn hangs in the balance. They’ve mastered the Orbs and picked up the Dragonlance (see Dragons of Winter Night), and things are looking pretty good with the return of the good metallic dragons. But the band soon learns they must do battle with their own inner conflicts if they ever hope to defeat the Dark Queen Takhisis. A bang-up conclusion to Dragonlance’s best-loved trilogy. –Paul Hughes
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Just okay
This is the comic adaption of the third part of the Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy, first published in 1984. Unlike the first two adaptions, this one was split up into two parts, and this is the second part.
Unfortunately this graphic-novel was drawn by people with only average artistic talent.
Nevertheless the story adaption is as excellent as before and everybody who owns the previous 3 books of this adaption will want to have the final one.
4 Stars A Storied End To A Legend
The third book in the series, it picks up a little bit from there the second book fell off.
The characters, who have now had a chance to have fairly large development arcs, are very well fleshed out with solid personalities. Some of them, like Tanis and Tas have really evolved from their original one-dimensional nature. Both are much darker, as one would be if they went through what these guys have, but still seem to have hope. Others changes have been simpler, but still as important to the character. The one character who was intended to change the most, Raistlin, seems to have the least amount of change (for his arc, its better to look at the Twin sereis).
What helps lift this book from the second is that most of the characters come back together. It is always difficult to follow a story if everyone is to split up, and thankfully most of the group comes back together.
The story itself is a bit rougher then the previous two, with several of the sub-plots feeling very rushed to conclusion. The Raistlin plot is also somewhat tiresome, as they have been devoting a lot of time to it, without much happening.
There is one very large bright point, and that is the Weis and Hickman are excellent at writing death scenes. The way the character that dies in this novel is written really choked me up.
This is an excellent fantasy novel and a definite pace setter for the genre.
1 Stars Comic book - not a paperback novel
There is nothing in the description to indicate that this is a comic book and not just a regular paperback in the series. I will be returning it.
1 Stars Do not order this item if you want Hardcover edition
I tried to order the hardcover edition of this book three different times. Each time I tried buying it from different vendors and each time I received the paperback version. I inquired Amazon about it and they gave me some ridiculous excuses. Apparently they have an investigation team working on the problem, but I am not ‘allowed’ to know the outcome. If you want a mass market paperback just let me know…I now have three.
5 Stars Dragonlance Comic
Although the art in this comic isn’t as great as Vol. 1 or 2 of the Chronicles, it still fits the mood of the story in my mind (i found the art in vol 1 alittle too dark… but thats a different review altogether). The Authors did a very good job of adapting the novel script into comic form and I reccomend this series for anyone, dragonlance fan or comic book fan. Deffinately worth picking up at your local comic store or from Amazon.
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