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Dragons of Spring Dawning

By: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
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Publisher's summary

The war against the dragon minions of Queen Takhisis rages on. Armed with the mysterious, magical dragon orbs and the shining, silver dragonlance, the companions bring hope to the world. But now, in the dawn of a new day, the dark secrets that have long shadowed the hearts of the friends come to the light. Betrayal, treachery, frailty, and weakness will nearly destroy all that they have accomplished.

The greatest battle they have left to fight is within each of them. Yet, in the end, they will be heroes.

©1985 TSR, Inc., Cover Copyright c. 2000 Wizards of the Coast LLC (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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Still Good, but narration got weaker

The final book of the Chronicles of Dragon Lance. The Final battles of Good and Evil. It will end here, for good or ill, for at least most of the companions of our D&D tale. The War of the Lance completes. Magic, sneaking, spying, War, interpersonal conflicts, conflicts of morality and of the soul all in this book. It is still a great story even after all these years.

The narration however seemed to weaken. Characters and statements that should have been said with strength almost seem whiny. The narration itself is decent, but it feels as if the narrator did not take the time to consider the situation and the emotions behind the situation and instead just read the book. The characters even didn't have as much distinction between them as they did in the first and second books.

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Great book. Poor performance.

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Re-record it with a narrator that isn't going to mispronounce half the names or attempt to add unnecessary drama by constantly pausing/starting/stopping. If it were a boat ride, I'd be sea-sick.

What did you like best about this story?

The BOOK is great.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Paul Boehmer?

Anyone that can read and speak English as their native language.

What character would you cut from Dragons of Spring Dawning?

Not a single one.

Any additional comments?

As previously stated, the books are fantastic but I wouldn't be able to recommend this audiiobook unless it was re-recorded with a new narrator.

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Not like I remember

I read these books years ago and remember really enjoying them. after listening to the entire series it left me wondering why I enjoyed them so much. Just left me without emotion for the characters and their story. Not a personal attack on the narrator, but he made it even more difficult to enjoy. Overall just a big let down.

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The narration is terrible.

The narrator mispronounces names. What's worse is he doesn't use the same pronunciation from book to book. And, they're miss pronounced every time. It physically hurt to listen to this butchering of Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends.

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The performance is stilted and wooden.

As a way to re-live the books, this is passable. Please don't make this your first encounter with the series. The reader is terrible. His pronunciations are incorrect and haphazard at times. His delivery is wooden and ill-timed. Yet, it's still not enough to destroy this work of art.

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They effed up most of the character arcs.

Tanis, Tas, Tika, Caramon, and Kitiara make it out of this book alright. Everyone else either doesn't do anything, or has their personal arc fly off the side of the road, flip end over end, and explode.

Margaret and Tracy famously got into a big fight because they had to throw out all of Laurana's character progression and have her do something really stupid in order to make the final act happen.

By far the worst offender is Raistlin, who was deep and nuanced it the first 2 books. In this book, however, he's shallow as a puddle, jumps around erratically between alignments every other scene, and is used as a deus ex machina in the end.

Dungeons and Dragons is a game about character progression, but this book was mostly just character regression.

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wow. just read the series you will not regret it.

some say this is a book for teens, but it has depth too. love triangles, good vs evil, and complex characters (with exception of Stern)

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Classic Book, Awful Reader

Dragonlance Chronicles are probably my favorite books, but Paul Boehmer is a terrible, terrible narrator.

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good book. terrible narration.

loved the book but the narrator makes it difficult to get througha series i have loved since high school. seriously john boehmer stay away from voice acting gigs unless you're gonna emote. it was like watching paint dry.

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Writing is better, performance is still flat

You can tell that Weis and Hickman have learned a lot about writing as you get into the third book of the series, and it no longer reads likes notes from a D&D playing session. Still not what I would call good writing, but written well enough now not to be distracting and discordant like the first book was. The story is still a little weak and a little too plot heavy, but good enough.

The performance is still awful and flat. There seems to be more dialog and there is a little life there, but the exposition still cannot be distinguished from a flat computer voice enunciating the text.

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