Reviews for The Knights of the Crown : The Warriors

The average rating for The Knights of the Crown : The Warriors based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-06 00:00:00 Michael Umphlette Before we commence, I have one question: Why is the knight on the cover wielding a lightsaber? Well, of course it isn't a lightsaber. There is nary a Jedi in sight in this book. The only knights you'll find here are Solamnic knights, and not a great many of them either. I must admit, if there is one reading weakness I do possess, it is a lingering affinity for shared universe fiction. It's a guilty pleasure, but sometimes these novels are pretty entertaining. They also serve as a neat distraction between more, um, "intellectual" books. So, this is a Dragonlance novel, and it is a pretty contained story; nothing as grandiose as saving the world from the marching hordes of evil or any such. It's really just the story of how one man becomes recruited into the Knights of Solamnia. That's all. Oh, and there are Sea Barbarians and Minotaurs, which is always nice. Of course there are dragons too. And an evil mage. Oh bosh, we all know what these stories are like. What I will say is this: Knights of the Crown is written quite well and is really not too bad at all. Except, perhaps, for one thing: the author takes the alignment rule (good / neutral / evil) very, very literally. The story of Sir Pirvan the Wayward is continued in Knights of the Sword. The book is part of the Dragonlance Warriors sequence.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-06-27 00:00:00 Deborah Nicholas Either this book was badly written or badly edited. Some of the sentences made no sense whatsoever. In once instance, the author stated that a ship had no neighbors, and none of them were lit up. What? Many sentences had to be read two or three times before I gave up trying to figure out what he was saying. Other times, the way the author put things was just purely bizarre. In some cases, I guess it would considered artistic, or poetic, but it was so out of place, it was distracting. I didn't finish the book. A book that is titled Knights of the Crown, I expect to be about the Knights of Solamnia. They are mentioned in the book. In the first three pages, and the last three pages. Otherwise, it's a rather dull and derivative pirate and thief story. Yawn. And it seemed as though the author knew next to nothing about the world of Dragonlance. It's unfortunate that there are three more books about this character. However, it does look as though they might actually be about the Knights, so I'll hopefully have more luck reading them than I did with this one.