Dragonlance Chronicles / Legends

1980-2009 by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Retrospective complete: 2017-09-03 — 2022-10-15



Dragonlance: Chronicles / Legends - The Retrospective

Dragonlance was another of those series I read when I was an impressionable teenager. I'm pretty sure I first read it in 9th grade in Newport, Rhode Island, so that would have been 1990-1991. I distinctly recall carrying around these...

Dragonlance: Chronicles [1] Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984)

I found this re-read to be quite interesting. I'm always excited thinking about the story and the world and the nostalgia it brings, but when I actually start reading...I struggle to keep my focus half the time. While this first...

Dragonlance: Chronicles [2] Dragons of Winter Night (1985)

I remember this book now. It's the one that annoyingly skips interesting events like quests and battles to detail the boring events in between them, such as traveling and holding councils where the speeches are elided and glossed over with...

Dragonlance: Chronicles [3] Dragons of Spring Dawning (1985)

Now this is the Dragonlance that I was waiting for. Instead of being a bit bored like with Book 1, or annoyed at the authors for skipping over cool events like in Book 2, I was engaged from the start...

Dragonlance: Legends [1] Time of the Twins (1986)

I haven't read this book in at least 20 years. I know this because in 2001 I started tracking all the books I read and it's not listed there. Yes, that's right. I have kept track of all the books...

Dragonlance: Legends [2] War of the Twins (1986)

I don't remember anything that happens in this book, it's been so long since I read it. So it almost feels like a new book entirely. I'm sure I'll recall things as I go along—oh yeah, I remember that!—but it's...

Dragonlance: Legends [3] Test of the Twins (1986)

Like Chronicles, things finally get exciting here in the last book of Legends. The story comes together and we pull in all the elements and characters from Chronicles that made that trilogy good, but had been lacking so far.

It's like...

Dragonlance: Lost Chronicles [1] Dragons of the Dwarven Depths (2006)

Going into this new trilogy, I didn't know what to expect. I've read some of the Weis and Hickman's other works (notably The Death Gate Cycle) and while that was decent, some of their other stuff I found to be...

Dragonlance: Lost Chronicles [2] Dragons of the Highlord Skies (2007)

Ever since I first finished Dragons of Winter Night, my biggest disappointment was that I couldn't read the story of our heroes defeating Feal-Thas and taking the dragon orb at Icewall Castle. It sounded so cool and it always bothered...

Dragonlance: Lost Chronicles [3] Dragons of the Hourglass Mage (2009)

The events in this novel were not something I was particularly curious about, but I've enjoyed the first two entries in this newer Lost Chronicles trilogy, and I wasn't going to quit this, so here I am. This is the...