Chosen of the Gods Book

I'm pretty sure this is my first time reading Chris Pierson's Dragonlance novels, but I was pleasantly surprised. It took a while for me to sink my teeth into it, and it had some pretty bad sentences sometimes - but they were relatively rare, and the occasional kitschy scene, but that's to he expected (honestly, in other Dragonlance novels I wouldn't even mention it, but they felt almost out of place in this novel, which is fairly serious compared to the majority of the Dragonlance canon). Overall, I was very happy with this book.

There was the issue with the use of the Istarian language; there was a lot of it, and all translated immediately after. It had one decent payoff about mid-way through the novel, but that was it. I dig Conlang stuff as much as the next nerd, but it felt distracting - like Pierson was stoked that he either made up this language or had learned it from somewhere else and just wanted to use it - to the detriment of the overall story.

The characterization is strong - Cathan and Beldyn's relationship was especially good - and the plot and the storyline are solid. Most of the things I thought I didn't particularly like ended up really paying off by the end of the novel.

I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.