The final of the “Lost Chronicles” book and like the previous one that mostly focuses on Kitiara, this story picks up Raistlin’s lost adventures during the last book. In the final book of the Chronicles, Raistlin removes himself from drowingin the maelstrom, seemingly dooming his brother and companions to their death. It’s clear from both this book and that book that this was the most he could do, save himself, and well, I’d also argue that if they wanted to be saved, they maybe should have devoted their lives to magic too.
Anyway, dragon orb in hand Raistlin now is going to investigate the other towers, potentially take on the black robes, see about this Dark Queen business, and maybe get himself a flirtation going with a witch. All sounds good. The novel, like the other two, is strange and even more so than the first one because it exists in literaly interstices like very few others. It’s a novel that is devoid of context, but where the context is expected and necessary to make sense of the actual story here. In the most grandiose sentence I will write for this review, without the original work, this would be like reading Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead but not knowing what happens in Hamlet.
The book is solid, and maybe because there’s more books about Raistlin than any of the other characters, this is the shortest book. It’s also focused considerably compared to the other two. This means it lives or dies with Raistlin. The previous book was interesting because the additional characters were also interesting the previous to that book was not very good since the extra storylines weren’t strong.
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