Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Mass Market Paperback, 444 pages

English language

Published Feb. 1, 2000 by Wizards of the Coast.

ISBN:
978-0-7869-1574-3
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight is a 1984 fantasy novel by American writers Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, based on a series of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game modules. It was the first Dragonlance novel, and first in the Chronicles trilogy, which, along with the Dragonlance Legends trilogy, are generally regarded as the core novels of the Dragonlance world. The Chronicles trilogy came about because the designers wanted novels to tell the story of the game world they were creating, something to which TSR, Inc. (TSR) agreed only reluctantly. Dragons of Autumn Twilight details the meeting of the Companions and the early days of The War of the Lance. The novel corresponds with the first two Dragonlance game modules, Dragons of Despair and Dragons of Flame, but with a different ending. It introduces many of the characters that are the subject of later novels and short stories. The title Dragons of …

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2 stars

I acknowledge that a work doesn’t need to be a groundbreaking piece of literature to be fun and entertaining. I thought I’d be able to look past the cliché fantasy tropes and clumsy plot devices and enjoy this book as a piece of popular fiction. I was wrong. I think the point I gave up on this book was when a bunch of centaurs appeared and began to address the protagonists using only the pronoun “thee”, no “thou” in sight, with third person subject-verb agreement. I can’t believe the author - or for heaven’s sake the editor - couldn’t have checked how “thee/thou”, “thy/thine” worked. It’s not exactly obscure grammar. It left me with the impression of a book hastily written, with little thought given to actual craft of writing. I pushed on further but gave up two thirds of the way through it.

Review of 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I acknowledge that a work doesn’t need to be a groundbreaking piece of literature to be fun and entertaining. I thought I’d be able to look past the cliché fantasy tropes and clumsy plot devices and enjoy this book as a piece of popular fiction. I was wrong. I think the point I gave up on this book was when a bunch of centaurs appeared and began to address the protagonists using only the pronoun “thee”, no “thou” in sight, with third person subject-verb agreement. I can’t believe the author - or for heaven’s sake the editor - couldn’t have checked how “thee/thou”, “thy/thine” worked. It’s not exactly obscure grammar. It left me with the impression of a book hastily written, with little thought given to actual craft of writing. I pushed on further but gave up two thirds of the way through it.

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