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Title: The Puppet King (Dragonlance Chaos Wars, Vol. 3) by Douglas Niles ISBN: 0-7869-1324-X Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A rich and exciting read...
Comment: "The Puppet King" but Douglas Niles is a book full of action, politics, exitement, and everything else you could possibly want in a Dragonlance novel. This book is strangely set up, being that it is told like a story, but that doesnt take away from the read. The story itself follows many different points of view. It follows the exiled elf, Porthios. It follows the young and troubled Speaker of the Suns, Gilthas. And even follows the thoughts of a massive green dragon.
This book is full of Dragonlance goodness. Not only is the story an exciting read, but the characters are nicely developed. This book is set during the Chaos War, The same time as Margeret Wies'and Tracy Hickman's great book "Dragons of Summer Flame." It is nice to see the inner workings of the elven society, and see heroes rise up from unlikely places. This book is a must for any Dragonlance fan to read and enjoy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good plot, but what about the characters?
Comment: As a Dragonlance book, The Puppet King is one of the better ones. The story fits into the Dragonlance saga after "The Sacrifice" in the Second Generation, alongside Dragons of Summer Flame, and before the Fifth Age trilogy. Douglas Niles' strength seems to lie in planning involved and interesting military plots and tactics, and he continues that tradition here. The Puppet King reads like a chess game, with devious political plots being hatched left and right, and battles with smart manouevers lovingly described.
The drawback is that the characters become almost nothing more than chess pieces; two-dimensional figures who are armed only with enough characterization to carry out the plot. Douglas Niles was working with Dragonlance characters that Dragonlance fans have encountered elsewhere before, and it won't take too long to notice that readers get a better picture of what motivates Gilthas in a short story like Weis and Hickman's "The Sacrifice," than from the entire novel of The Puppet King. Also, the Puppet King is the first time Porthios has been given so much limelight in any book, but Niles hardly offers any new and interesting insight on the character. The antagonists like Rashas and Konnal were also two-dimensional, even maddeningly so, because most of the book describes their evil machinations without revealing enough of why they should be that evil and unwise.
All in all, the Puppet King does do a good job of describing the events in Qualinesti and Silvanesti before and during Dragons of Summer Flame. Readers who were wondering how these two areas of Krynn weathered the Chaos War will have their questions answered here.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow! Definitely a surprise
Comment: Alright to explain the title of my review. This book was a surprise for me because it is one of the few books that have a main political twist to it that I still actually enjoyed reading. The characters in this are great especially some of the ones that are hardly even in it. I don't want to give away to much but the title basically speaks for itself. Gilthas is a young elf being manipulated by Rashas an evil qualinesti senator.
Niles definitely knows how to develop his villains. I mean I actually ended up really hating Rashas and the silvanesti general. Even though this book may deal a lot with the political aspect of the elvish society there is still plenty of action. And not all of the politics are boring either. Niles is definitely one of the better authors in Dragonlance and this book is definitely worth the money/time spent on it.
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Title: Dezra's Quest (Dragonlance Bridges of Time, Vol. 5) by Chris Pierson ISBN: 0786913681 Publisher: TSR Hobbies Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Doom Brigade (Dragonlance Kang's Regiment, Vol. 1) by Margaret Weis, Don Perrin ISBN: 0786907851 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Draconian Measures (Dragonlance Kang's Regiment, Vol. 2) by Don Perrin, Margaret Weis ISBN: 0786916788 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Spirit of the Wind (Dragonlance Bridges of Time, Vol. 1) by Chris Pierson ISBN: 0786911743 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Legacy of Steel (Dragonlance Bridges of Time, Vol. 2) by Mary H. Herbert ISBN: 0786911875 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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