Once in a while you come across a world that pulls you in and never lets you go. Dragonlance was just such a place for me. A world where I could immerse myself and never get tired of the places and the people that I found there.I know that many would put this series in the world of guilty pleasure or something similar, but for me this was a series that made me fall in love with reading. Characters that I wanted to know more about and that I fell in love with, places that I wanted to visit and ex...

This book is part of the Dragonlance universe and takes place between book one and book two of the "holy six" books. At the end of the first book the slaves are freed and on the run. At the beginning of the second book we learn that these slaves have been taken in and reside in the dwarf kingdom of Thorbardin. This book tells the story of how that happened.Even though this book takes place right after the first book I still recommend reading the first six books and backtracking back to this book...

I love the addition of the 3 Lost Chronicles books to the Dragonlance series.It was always a bit vague what happened in Skullcap and the Dwarven kingdom, between book 1 and 2 of Chronicles. This book takes us on the adventures to both those places as well as some additional character development and of course some giggles.

*Spoilers and Sensitive Topics*This book was written much later, timeline wise, and takes place between Autumn Twilight and Winter Night. I recommend reading the original trilogy first, then picking this up after, as it would spoil big surprises from Chronicles.This book tells the story of the quest to find the Hammer of Kharas and how the refugees of Pax Tharkas came to Thorbardin, the home of the mountain dwarves. The gangs still together, and everyone is safe from death. No one is safe from b...

Via Book Reviews by Niki Hawkes at www.nikihawkes.comEven though the Lost Chronicles are the latest in publication, they actually fall in the middle of the Dragonlance saga chronologically. It is an expansion of some events that happened that didn’t quite make it into the original series. Happy to have anything new from these authors, I was thrilled when it was released, and found it to be an incredibly nostalgic read.I don’t think the original manuscript was a full trilogy, and so the authors h...

It's been a long time since I read a DragonLance novel so I really enjoyed reading this one yesterday, on Christmas Eve. Seeing what the characters were up to was like visiting old friends. And the story did not disappoint either. All of the characters I loved were here having another adventure with lots of action, danger and magic. And Tas was funny. It's truly amazing how the authors could weave a new story in between the books set in the Chronicles. That's very clever. This is a really fat bo...

The thing I'm most impressed by is Hickman and Weis's ability to draw me into a story whose ending I already know. This book takes place between books one and two of the Chronicles, and I've read the Chronicles and the Legends, so I have the full picture in mind. Somehow, though, I cared what happened in this book and how it happened. The original authors make their world come to life like nobody else, but it's also being reunited with all the Companions that I loved. I found a website that clai...

I'm so glad that the passage of the time did not diminish my enjoyment of this book. If anything, it was really really nostalgic and a very satisfying read.All of the Companions are back again - it's like going back in time and remembering the time I was reading the Chronicles again. You find yourself falling in love with all the wonderful characters again.The story tells of the events after their escape from Pax Tharkas at the end of book 1 of the Chronicles. It tells the story of how the refug...

This is a standalone novel that takes place after the events of Dragons of Autumn Twilight and before Dragons of Winter Night.We've got all the heroes of the lance.Tanis and Flint seeking out the dwarves in Thorbardin.Raistlin drawn to a place called Skullcap.Sturm seeking out the Hammer of Kharas.Tika and Tasselhoff on a quest to save the ones they love.This is such a great world. Such great characters.600 pages of awesome! The entire Lord of the Rings wasn't much more than that. Hey Jordan, Go...

I read this book after The War of Souls trilogy. This book is a disappointment for me. The characters and the plot is not good enough to like.I just read whole book and it does not impress me.Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman wrote a sub story for the Heroes of the Lance. We know all of the characters from the main books of Dragonlance, the base of the characters are ok, they are well known, they have their uniqueness but the book does not add anything to these characters.The plot and sub-plots lo...

It was great to see the companions back together again! I started this trilogy many years after reading the original chronicles and I was so happy to read about the group: Tanis, Flint, Sterm, Tass, Caramon, Raistlin, Laura, and even Kit. So much fun!This book takes the reader on an adventure that is basically a companion to the original chronicles. What happens in this series is kind of what happens in between those first books. You see the companions save slaves and escape the dark forces. The...

As someone who originally read most of the (good) books of the series about a decade ago, reading these newer ones is almost the equivalent of someone remaking one of the awesome PSOne RPGs. I spent a good portion of the book pretty much reveling in having something more to read, and recalling the awesome times spent reading the earlier books. Oh, and loving Raistlin; that happens a lot. One thing I liked about this book, that really only would appeal to veterans such as myself, is that it goes

copy-pasted from my Librarything account: started well, had some slow passages where nothing really exciting happens and you almost feel as if W&H simply HAD to write this book for the sake of writing it. But far in the second half there's finally some action and it's hard then to put the book down. sure, the original Chronicles were fab, this one's a little less, but let's see how Highlord Skies and Hourglass Mage complete the 'lost chronicles'.

i finished it quite a while ago...just haven't been back the web page to update...was an excellent book...i highly recommend if you are a Dragonlance fan!

Dragons of the Dwarven Depths fills in the gaps between the first two books in the Chronicles Dragonlance series. It covers what happens to the refugees that had been kept prisoner in the first book, and how Tanis and co found the Hammer of Karas and convinced the dwarves in the underground city to reopen the mountain and join the fight against the dragon army.The action is unrealistic and overwhelmingly daft. It manages the impressive feat of being even more slapstick than the main series! If y...

It's a good job that my expctations for this book were not high, because my very low ones weren't really met. Like most people reading this book (why would you choose this as your first Dragonlance book? Just a small amount of research explains that this really isn't the best place to start!!) I have an unhealthy amount of nostalgia when it comes to Dragonlance, being hooked on the Chronicles - most notably being a Raistlin devotee - in my early teens to such an extent that thinking about Dragon...

This was a fun book for me =) I'll preface this review by saying I'm a huge Dragonlance fan. A book pretty much automatically gets 3 stars from me by having the word "Dragonlance" on the cover. The closest thing I could compare this to (with a movie analogy) would be a special bonus DVD from a Director's Cut of a film. It is a nice little tale that fills in some of the glaring gaps missing from the Chronicles (hence the name of this series, the Lost Chronicles).I'd been putting off reading these...

Ah, I do love a good dwarven tale. Also nice to see Flint get to do something besides fuss and sputter and yell at Tasslehoff, and to see the dwaven cultures of Krynn. The writing style is improved since the original Chronicles, but it hasn't become unrecognizable either. Fun for fans of the original Companions of the Lance, or classic role-playing inspired fantasy. Perhaps a little too breezy for everyone, but that's generally the house style here. The pace gives the characters time to stretch

I love the Dragonlance series but I have been thoroughly confused by the recommended reading order! I seem to have started reading about the world of Krynn somewhere in the middle, then moved into the future, only to be shifted back in time and then returned to the middle again! Of course now I've forgotten some of the incidents in the first novels I read a year or two ago, so that I should really read them again - unfortunately I still don't know what order to read them in, so that they follow

when you have an old house and you refurbish you end up with a slightly better old house. That's how i feel about the first "lost" book that after twenty years covered the gap between the autumn and winter dragons. a small story about the recovering of the hammer of Kharas that had to be stretched in order to become a 100k+ words novel. the plot is not bad and the telling is professional and well written but the initial flavor is gone and the feeling is lost. still, it is better than nothing. i

Returning to the world of Dragonlance, always get me bit sentimental and excited. Dragonlance was my first real fantasy experience and is still my favourite overall. And I love getting to hang out with Tanis, Tas, Caramon & Raistlin, Flint, Sturm, Goldmoon & Riverwind, Tika and Laurana.This book is a return to the time of the Chronciles and fill out some of the holes left from that trilogy. We follow our heroes after they've resuced the prisoners from Pax Tharkas and how they struggle to help th...

I grew up on the original Dragonlance trilogy, so when I learned that there was a book that took place between Dragons of Autumn Twilight and Dragons of Winter Night I had to check it out.Compared to the original trilogy, this book was written far better than the books it takes place between. The evolution of Weis and Hickman's writing is fairly apparent, and I give them props for having to try and keep their joined style as close to the original series as possible. Still, the evolution of their...

What could be better than a story about the original companions written by the dynamic duo of Weis and Hickman, themselves? Not much. I will take any opportunity to go explore Krynn again. This book adds a lot of depth along with some nostalgia. A must read for any Dragonlance fan.

I try to mix up what I read, and fantasy books are a hit and miss for me. I'm either really into it, or falling asleep and can't get through it. This was the former.So far the Goblin Quest books are my favourite, but this book would be a strong second. I liked the opening predicament and were we pick up the story, as well as the world (not too unlike our own) where it takes place. The range of creatures was interesting, from half-elves and orgres, a few new ones like draconians and a kender, alo...

Having won a small skirmish in the War of the Lance, the companions (with several hundred newly-freed slaves-turned-refugees), are holed up in a valley, hopefully to wait out the bitter, unforgiving winter and proceed to safety with the first thaws. Resourceful and streetsmart, they are aware that defeating a single commander is hardly sufficient to topple a cohesive military unit and throw the remaining draconian and human troops into chaos.Their fears prove true after their nemesis, Verminaard...

As a whole I would give this 2½ stars at most, but everything Raistlin says and does is obviously worth full 5/5 stars. (Also + for unexpected Raistlin/Sturm bonding)

It's been awhile since I have read dragonlance book and not that I picked it back up again I remember why I loved the series so much. Dragons of Dwarven depths come back to the faithful Companions of Chronicles trilogy so we the part of the journey that we didn't get to originally see such as them going into thorbardin and the I think the experience during that. It's fun seeing their characters as they were when I first fell in love with them as Raistlin in his in his red robes being mysterious

This is the start of The Lost Chronicles trilogy. In this one we follow Tanis Half-Elven, Flint Fireforge, Raistlin and Caramon Majere, Tasslehoff Burrfoot, and the other Heroes of the Lance from The Chronicles trilogy. But in this one it is telling us where the former slaves, now refugees, from the Red Dragon Army escaped to after the heroes rescued them from Verminard the Dragon Highlord. And also how the Hammer of Kharas, formerly known as the Hammer of Hope, was found by the mountain dwarves...

Dwarven Depths is a standalone novel featuring the all-star Companions from the original Dragons sequence. The timeline is set between the first two books and features a quest for the mystical Hammer of Kharas and a trip to Thorbardin, the sealed home of the dwarves. The material is rather lighthearted, as is the tone, making this Dragons book easy on the tension and emotions, which are clear strengths of Weis & Hickman in their previous work. Dwarven Depths feels like a short story and although...

The first volume of the "Lost Chronicles" fills in a gap in the original chronicles - in the original, there is a sudden leap from the liberation of the enslaved people at Pax Tharkas to the refugees living in the formerly-inaccessible dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin. There is dialogue like, "Now that we have unsealed the gates to Thorbardin and convinced the dwarves to help us by finding the lost Hammer of Kharas, now we can . . ." Right. So, this "lost chronicle tells the story of how that happ