poisonenvy's review against another edition
1.0
If I could sum up this book with one quote, it would be this: "That awkward phrasing killed deader than Vinas Solamnus any hope of concealing his unease."
This book is full of awkward quotes, not least among them being "Then her jaw set. It was a well-shaped jaw, in which were set two rows of even, white teeth." I'm not sure if it was the awkwardness of the phrasing or something else, but the story of this book is incredibly hard to follow.
It's also over encumbered with a lot of clumsy analogies and similes. Way, way too many bad, bad analogies and similes.
Also, why is the main character always getting naked? Like, constantly. He stripped down no less than four times in the first 50 pages of the book. I don't understand why this is. Or why he thinks that covering his naked body with animal fat is going to help him slip through a rocky cave-in as if rocks are something smooth to slide over. Or why there's a blacksmith forge on a wooden boat. The last isn't related to the first two, but definitely something that gave me pause.
I will say that the book got noticeably better in the last third of the story. That still doesn't mean I'm looking forward to reading the next three books in this series. Which I have to do, after vowing to read every Dragonlance book ever written.
As a side note, I am positive that it has been made clear in the lore of Dragonlance that there is no healing magic outside of clerical magic from the gods, and I am wondering why this is the second book in a row where random mages are able to perform spells of healing.
This book is full of awkward quotes, not least among them being "Then her jaw set. It was a well-shaped jaw, in which were set two rows of even, white teeth." I'm not sure if it was the awkwardness of the phrasing or something else, but the story of this book is incredibly hard to follow.
It's also over encumbered with a lot of clumsy analogies and similes. Way, way too many bad, bad analogies and similes.
Also, why is the main character always getting naked? Like, constantly. He stripped down no less than four times in the first 50 pages of the book. I don't understand why this is. Or why he thinks that covering his naked body with animal fat is going to help him slip through a rocky cave-in as if rocks are something smooth to slide over. Or why there's a blacksmith forge on a wooden boat. The last isn't related to the first two, but definitely something that gave me pause.
I will say that the book got noticeably better in the last third of the story. That still doesn't mean I'm looking forward to reading the next three books in this series. Which I have to do, after vowing to read every Dragonlance book ever written.
As a side note, I am positive that it has been made clear in the lore of Dragonlance that there is no healing magic outside of clerical magic from the gods, and I am wondering why this is the second book in a row where random mages are able to perform spells of healing.
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