World Famous Comics: Dragons of the Highlord Skies (Dragon Lance: The Lost Chronicles, Vol. 2)
Dragons of the Highlord Skies (Dragon Lance: The Lost Chronicles, Vol. 2)
By: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Label: Wizards of the Coast Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 496 Publication Date: January 08, 2008 Release Date: January 08, 2008
Product Description: The Chronicles retold--from evil's point of view.
The story starts in Neraka, where Kitiara uth Matar and Emperor Ariakas hatch a plan to retrieve a dragon orb and thereby destroy Solamnia and the Companions in one fell swoop. But the guardian of the dragon orb, Highlord Feal-Thas, disagrees with this plan. Kitiara must go to Ice Wall to force him to accept Ariakas' will, but her journey does not end there. Thrown out of favor, she conceives a daring plan to enlist the aid of the most feared beings on Krynn--Lord Soth and the Dark Queen. Meanwhile, Laurana and the Companions retrieve the dragon orb and take it back to Solamnia--not knowing that they bring their allies' doom with them.
The second volume of a new trilogy from celebrated authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, The Lost Chronicles details the famed War of the Lance from the perspective of the evil that menaces Krynn. The books are written in such a way that they will be marvelous complements to the original Chronicles, while at the same time accessible and exciting to new readers.
Dragons of the Highlord skies Excellent read. I myself was always dissapointed that there wasn't more detail regarding Kitiara's and Sturm's adventures to Icereach. This cleared everything up perfectly. Weis and Hickman are true literary geniuses!
from a big dragonlance fan I took a break from reading dragonlance books for a long time and decided to start with the chronicles series and mix in a bit of these lost chronicles as i go.
I started with autumn twilight naturally and went straight into dwarven depths. The transition from one to the other is smooth. I wasn't sure if I should read this book or winter night. I opted to go with this one. It was a great read.
Then I went into winter night which is the reason I give this book one less star then a perfect five. I realized that the lost chronicles didn't really fit in so well. Looking back I could tell it was really forced. Spoiler: For example, Tanis goes through Thorbardin without any problems, nothing about his discomfort with enclosed spaces or anything, and then I read the beginning of winter night and suddenly he was very uncomfortable underground and wanted out as soon as possible. Or how Tas got the glasses or how he helped the knights. Or Kit's relationship with Skie is different in this one than it is in winter night. It just didn't feel right, in my opinion.
But all in all, by itself, the book is fun to get through, though the connections to the true chronicles were really forced in. I could overlook it easily enough and recommend this to fans of the series.
Kitiara's Place I found the Novel to be a very good read and I think that if Kitiara had been able to contribute more to Takithises war the Dragon lance war probably would have gone very Diffrently and I can hardly wait for the Third book which concerns Raistlin.
Classic Weis & Hickman This is why I read Dragonlance in the firstplace. This is classic Weis & Hickman! I look foreward to the third installment!
A wonderful series to fill in the gaps I'm a big fan of the original Weis and Hickman characters, so I was very excited with this series when it first came out. And once again, Weis and Hickman delivers. The Lost Chronicles fill in those gaps of the original chronicles, while letting us die-hards revisit our all time favorites such as Cameron, Tasslehoff, Tanis and all the other original heroes. Would highly recommend both volume one and two, and am anxiously waiting for the third installment coming out in May!
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