Shawn Towner reviewed The Lost Chronicles (Vol. 2): Dragons of the Highlord Skies by Margaret Weis (The Dragonlance Saga)
Review of 'The Lost Chronicles (Vol. 2): Dragons of the Highlord Skies' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
Although its probably not fair to lump together a second-rate Dragonlance and A Song of Ice and Fire, I can't help but compare Dragons of the Highlord Skies to A Feast for Crows. Like AFFC, Highlord Skies focuses on a significantly less interesting batch of characters: the group that traveled south to Icereach when the companions were separated in Tarsis. That means no Tanis or Raistlin. And even though Sturm, Flint, and Tas are around, the authors choose to focus more on Derek Crownguard and his Solamnic cronies. Laurana gets a little attention towards the end of the book, but she is never presented as a particularly interesting character. She's pretty much just getting dragged along, ostensibly to fulfill her 'destiny'.
The decent parts of this book are the chapters that focus on Kitiara. Like the Jaime chapters of AFFC, the Kit chapters give us insight into a sometimes …
Although its probably not fair to lump together a second-rate Dragonlance and A Song of Ice and Fire, I can't help but compare Dragons of the Highlord Skies to A Feast for Crows. Like AFFC, Highlord Skies focuses on a significantly less interesting batch of characters: the group that traveled south to Icereach when the companions were separated in Tarsis. That means no Tanis or Raistlin. And even though Sturm, Flint, and Tas are around, the authors choose to focus more on Derek Crownguard and his Solamnic cronies. Laurana gets a little attention towards the end of the book, but she is never presented as a particularly interesting character. She's pretty much just getting dragged along, ostensibly to fulfill her 'destiny'.
The decent parts of this book are the chapters that focus on Kitiara. Like the Jaime chapters of AFFC, the Kit chapters give us insight into a sometimes misunderstood antihero. I wish there had been more focus on her interactions with Lord Soth, but that plot line stopped abruptly at the end, giving way to the dreadful frame story being told by a character who doesn't really matter.
