Amber and Blood (Dragonlance: The Dark Disciple, Vol. 3) | Margaret Weis

Amber and Blood (Dragonlance: The Dark Disciple, Vol. 3) | Margaret Weis | Somewhat disappointing, still worth reading.

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	Amber and Blood (Dragonlance: The Dark Disciple, Vol. 3) Margaret Weis Wizards of the Coast, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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The Dark Disciple's fate will alter the future of Krynn.

In the concluding volume of this post-War of Souls trilogy, Mina learns the truth about herself and the terrible knowledge drives her insane. Rhys, the monk of Majere, accompanied by his dog Atta and the kender Nightshade, is given the dangerous assignment of guarding the crazed god, escorting her on a long, strange journey to the mysterious place known as Godshome, where Mina hopes to find the answer to the riddle of her existence. Their path is fraught with peril, for the undead Beloved want to make Mina their leader, even as the death knight Krell wants to seize her and Galdar tries to deliver Mina to her most hated enemy.

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Excellent book, great trilogy

By far, this trilogy is the BEST Dragonlance books I've read in some time--a thrilling story with a good mix of humor, nicely paced and well told with a sweet (some might say bittersweet) ending.

As a follow-up to the War of Souls series, The Dark Disciple Trilogy takes the previous efforts rather dark tone and goes for a lighter, but no less thrilling ride; plenty of laugh-out-loud moments are nicely balanced with a steadily played out mystery and lots of tension; seeing the conniving and yet petty ways of gods like Nuitari, Zeboim and Chemosh added to the enjoyability by giving them a very human quality, yet never letting you forget what they were about (and contributed quite heavily to the humor of the book.) Seriously, if you've grown tired of the last few books (which, post-"Second Generation", tend to be rather dark, "let's kill as many off as we can" reads), you'll find this a refreshing change.

Unfortunately what keeps this from being 5 stars is the editing. It's apparent that there was no professional editing done, with "Amber and Blood" suffering the worst in the form of improper word choices, scenes out of order and occasionally duplicated scenes (this happens when a writer "jumps around" while writing and is usually cleaned up during the editing process) all show that the book was run through a spell-checker and onto the presses; given the price of it ($25.95 locally) you'd expect better quality in that area. Fortunately the poor editing does not harm the story overall and it flows smoothly, though for those of us who love words, it can be a bit jarring.

Still, highly recommended!

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Somewhat disappointing, still worth reading.

I did enjoy the book, but I think it was not one of Margaret Weis's best works. It was somewhat predictable and lacked suspense. I was not able to get lost in this book as I have in some others in the series.

I read these books because I enjoy the stories. I was always impressed, however, at Weis's ability to write so amazingly well in addition to telling a great story. I just think she came up a bit short on this one.

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i waited for over a year to read this book and was a little dissapointed with it i wass hoping for mina to be a all powerfull god and she turned out to be crap. good story but could of been way better hope the next sereies is better

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