The Doom Brigade (Dragonlance Kang's Regiment, Vol. 1) | Margaret Weis, Don Perrin

The Doom Brigade (Dragonlance Kang's Regiment, Vol. 1) | Margaret Weis, Don Perrin | Surprising! Imaginative! Great!

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	The Doom Brigade (Dragonlance Kang's Regiment, Vol. 1) Margaret Weis, Don Perrin Wizards of the Coast, 1998 - 344 pages average customer review:based on 61 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Seeing the Draconians in a New Light

This novel gives us a closer look at what was previously painted as a despicable race. In this novel I almost forgot that the draconians are good eggs gone bad, the product of an evil magic. Because here, they are a race desperately wanting to continue their existence and to be useful to the cause they originally pledged their allegiance. So much so that Kang, their leader, was almost willing to have a symbiotic relationship with the dwarves. At one point, one can almost relate to the desperation of the army to survive and be useful. This is because Weis and Perrin developed well the characters in this novel.

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Surprising! Imaginative! Great!

After looking at the front of the book and reading the back, I was a little skeptic about how good it was. My first thought was, " how are these big, stupid lizards actually surviving on Krynn? I thought they all died out during the War of the Lance." So after I read all my other new books I read this one out of boredom and idle curiosity. It turned out to be the best of the books I had recieved. Not only does it provide a deep look at the loyalty, intelligence and uniformity of the draconians, it also expresses how the weight of despair sits on them. And since it does take place in the Chaos War, Kang(commander of the draconians) eventually leads his troops to against someone other than the dwarfs at about 3/5 of the way through the book. The book starts out with the dwarfs peacefully attacking the draconian village. Apparently, the two races have worked out a mutual agreement; something like, "if you don't kill us we won't kill you." Anyway, a dwarf in the dwarven settlement across the valley from the draconians gets hold of a journal with a map. The journal describes a Deawar journey to find a great storeroom full of Highlord treasure. This party of Daewar also found draconian eggs that housed female draconians. The whole story sort of hinges on those eggs because only male draconians were hatched to fight for the Dark Queen. I'll let you read the book to find out what happens next.=)

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excellent book but...

this is a truly funny and touching story about a bunch of most unlikely beings. The draconians are great, and you'd most probably be rooting for them right from the start. However, i wonder if anyone noticed that the plot for this book is almost identical to that of another, more famous book? i'm referring to < Watership Down >, that "rabbit" book. ^_^ even the characters are similar. eg. Kang, obviously = Hazel ;Slith = Blackberry/Dandelion also, the situation the draconians are in is so similar to that of the rabbits! both are unable to continue their race due to lack of females. in , Kang leads a band of followers to a hostile place to try and retrieve the females. as did Hazel in . they both suffered similar losses after their first attempt to leave the warren/village. both Kang and Hazel recieved a "vision" to help defeat their enemies, the fire dragons and woundwort respectively, via Huzzard and Fiver. both of them suffered when they singlehandedly try to attempt a great feat. Hazel ended up in a drain, while Kang got trapped under a load of rock.... the draconians decided to leave the army after deciding that it was a lost cause; the rabbits decided to leave the sandleford warren because Fiver felt that the warren was doomed... the similarities are endless.

but even so, this is a fine book, which all dragonlance fans should have on their shelves. you might also want to grab a copy of as well. ^__^

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this book fricking rules

not that i'd expect anything less from Weis...

Suprisingly good book

I never thought I would like a book about draconians but the characters were well thought out and suprisingly endearing. For once I got to see things from the draconians point of veiw. I guess the fact that it's a Margaret Weis is a big plus for it.

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