Dragonlance- Dark Disciple Trilogy quick review

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Just finished the Dark Disciple trilogy (otherwise known as the amber trilogy), and I will admit that i was disappointed.  I don’t know what i was expecting, but something more than this, especially coming from one of the two Dragonlance paragons, Margaret Weis.  Any time Weis or Hickman do a Dragonlance story, I guess i expect something… epic.  Or funny.  Cause I loved the Doom Brigade Books.

This trilogy just lacked umph.  I expected something again to Chronicles or Legends.  or even dawning of a new age.  I expected a dozen intriguing characters.  i expected adventure.  Instead we get three main good guys and handful of bad guys.  I guess the major problem is that the trilogy features the gods as some of the main characters, and the main enemies, and while that for some reason works  in the Forgotten Realm novels (Cyric books were awesome), it falls a little flat here.

Another reason I expected more is because the  War of Souls has been over for almost seven years, the Dragon overlords are dead, and I was looking forward to the next big step in the world.  There have been a dozen novels or so exploring the world after the war of Souls, and I thought it was time for the next Major Conflict.  The next world-defining trilogy.  Except we get a somber trilogy, that, while a good read, leaves the reader wanting something more.  A monk of Majere, a kender, a dog, and Mina just doesn’t add up to exciting.

Obviously, if you are a die hard Dragonlance fan, you will, and should, read it.  It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t exceptional.  I was looking for epic, but instead got narrow-focused with very little world-shaking developments.

Now I’m just waiting for the last book in the Lost Chronicles trilogy to be released, Dragons of the Hourglass Mage.  while this is set in the past and not the future, I think I will find the dynamic characters and epic story I am looking for.

And of course, I look forward to the next big Dragonlance story.  I wonder if the consequences of this book will have large ramifications for the future of the continent, but I can’t imagine that they will.  I can only wait and hope.

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