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Brothers in Arms (Dragonlance: Raistlin Chronicles, Book 2)
- Mass Market Paperback
- Author: Margaret Weis, Don Perrin
- Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
- Release Date: August 1999
- ISBN-10: 0786914297
- ISBN-13: 9780786914296
- List Price: $7.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryThe Innocence of Youth Lost in War |
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My Final Margaret Weis Book
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"Red scales caught the last of the afterglow, glinting and gleaming and sparkling like cinders flying up from the blazing log or gentlewoman's rubies, cast into the sunlight, or drops of blood."
This clumsily composed description of Immolatus, the Red Dragon is classic Margaret Weis and shines a spotlight on her biggest weakness. Mrs. Weis is simply a very mediocre writer. Maybe her writing suffers because she cranks out material so prolifically but it has the feel of something created quickly. So for me it is absolutely astounding that her previous book, Soulforge, with 215 reviews on Amazon managed to average a perfect 5 stars and this book has an average of 4 ½ stars. I have read far superior books that couldn't manage these kinds of rave reviews. So how does she do it? Now that is a mystery.
I actually wrote an entire review savaging this book after reading about half of it but a funny thing happened. It actually improved significantly. Sure I had to suffer through well over 200 pages of tedium but it does get much better. It never got great but it reached the level of readable. The plot improved but Margaret Weis's writing remained sub par and her inability to creating compelling characters and dialogue continued. A tremendous amount of the book is devoted to the always tiresome Kitiara uth Matar. She is my least favorite Weis/Hickman creation being a two dimension cardboard grrrrrl. For some reason Weis seems to equate strong female with arrogance or maybe Kitiara is supposed to be a jerk in which case why must the reader spend so much time with her. Let's just say that in the climactic battle I wasn't rooting for he and I'm sure I was supposed to be.
I read this book right after finishing George R.R. Martin's `Clash of Kings' and the disparity in quality is striking. Martin creates several strong female characters in particular Brienne of Tarth. When Brienne wins a tournament against men it feels believable but when Kitiara bests males in combat it just feels inevitable. Brienne is a complex, multidimensional character, Kitiara is a single dimensional strong female cipher made all the worse because unlike Brienne, Kitiara is actually a main character. It's just one example of how limited Margaret Weis's writing skills are. `Brothers in Arms' is written with the shallowness of a children's book with a length (470+ pages) more befitting an older reader.
Quality wise I would put Margaret Weis on the low end of the scale, the popular R.A. Salvatore in the middle and George R.R. Martin on the high end. This will be the last Margaret Weis book I plan on reading. There is just too much better stuff out there to continue reading these Dragon Lance books.
Not canon, but still a good read
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For those of you familiar with the Dragonlance universe, I have to say this is a very different book from The Soulforge (which precedes this volume). This book starts out quite slow, but once it gets going is quite entertaining. It is interesting to speculate about what role Don Perrin played in this book given The Soulforge was completely his wife's work (Margaret Weis). The book generally aims to stay consistent with the other texts in the series and does not "offend" key plot points for what comes later.
Another interesting aspect of this work is the development (furthered in Dragons of the Highlord Skies) of Kitiara. A character I always felt was quite narrow in the original trilogy (chronocles) is fleshed out considerably in these two volumes, and I 'almost' find myself liking her. It appears that a reasonable amount of military study has gone into preparing this book (at least at an elementary level) as it skips the deux au machina of the magic spell to end every conflict (which seemed to be evident in some more recent Dragonlance novels).
This book is not deep and is a good actioner. Enjoy it for what it is, but don't expect the same degree of introspection as with The Soulforge.
Raistlin and Caramon close-up
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Awesome Dragonlance novel :)
This novel tells the story of how Raistlin and Caramon became mercenaries after Raistlin has taken the test of magic.
This is every bit as good as The Soulforge (Dragonlance: The Raistlin Chronicles, Book 1). And definetly lives up to the Dragonlance standard.
Only downside is that it only spans over around one year out of the five years the companions are separated before the Chronicles series, therefore, it does not say anything about what happenes to the twins during the remaining four years. Yet, if the story had to span over all the five years, it would have been a VERY long book :)
Definetly worth reading if you demand to know more about Raistlin and Caramon :)
Dragonlance book
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My son loves these books so as he read it in a couple of days must be good.
Raistlin Chronicles
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If you are intrigued by Raistlin and want to know his detailed story, starting at age 6, this book, along with Book 1, are the books to get. All of the questions I had about him, and even some I didn't know I had, were explained.
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