The Soulforge (Dragonlance Saga)
by Margaret Weis

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Book Review: Good addition, but not the best
Summary: 4 Stars

The book starts off well enough, and it is billed as telling to story of what happened in the Tower of High Sorcery. Sure, in the last 20 pages. So much of the book was spent dealing with things that happen in the future (kind of a way to say, "hey did you catch this reference") that I was left a little flat.

The character development also was extremely inconsistent. There was very little on Kit, about whom readers of the trilogy are least knowledgeable. Sure it discussed her past, but did very little, in my mind, to discern what motivated her to hate her mother so, to leave home, and what drew her to the dark side of life. It was as if Weis was saying money and power, that's it. No reason, just money and power. More was made of what drove Raistlin, but in very short quips, the one about Miranda being the best example. Furthermore, Caramon was painted as a complete idiot, a description that is highly inconsistent with the chronicles.

Things just seemed to be too nice and neat in this book. It was as if Weis had a bunch of loose ends that needed taking care of. It would have been so much better if the book had centered more on Raistlin's psychological development, giving a clearer window into his soul. While I appreciated witnessing the origination of the relationship between Tas and Flint, and references to the 5 year deal, I was hoping that this book would not try to cover so much ground in such little time. Let's be clear, Chronicles covered less than a year in over 1000 pages, and this book covers 14 in 350? My perception of the test, at least as it was painted in Chronicles, could have covered 300+ pages. Why cut it short? So much more could have been done. At the end, the reader is left with the feeling of, "Oh, that is why his eyes are like that, and why his skin is like that, and why he does this that and the other thing" but, again, it was too nice and neat.

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