The War of Souls Trilogy Gift Set

Dragonlance: The War of Souls #1-3 omnibus

by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

This slip-covered gift set contains the three New York Times best-selling titles that make up the epic War of Souls Dragons of a Fallen Sun, Dragons of a Lost Star , and Dragons of a Vanished Moon . Authored by Dragonlance saga co-creators Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, these titles each hit multiple best-seller lists upon initial release.

Genres: Fantasy, Dragonlance, Fiction, Dungeons and Dragons, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dragons

3208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Margaret Edith Weis is an American fantasy and science fiction author of dozens of novels and short stories. At TSR, Inc., she teamed with Tracy Hickman to create the Dragonlance role-playing game (RPG) world. She is founding CEO and owner of Sovereign Press, Inc and Margaret Weis Productions, licensing several popular television and movie franchises to make RPG series in addition to their own.
In 1999, Pyramid magazine named Weis one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons, saying she and Hickman are "basically responsible for the entire gaming fiction genre". In 2002, she was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in part for Dragonlance.

Reviews

[Logan Mendivil · Rating 5 out of 5]

This trilogy set collects Dragons of a Fallen Sun, Dragons of a Lost Star, and Dragons of a Vanished Moon co-authored by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Published through Wizards of the Coast, this series was released between April 2000 to July 2002. This series can be read on its own or as part of the Dragonlance series.

This story begins 38 years after the events of the events of Dragons of Summer Flame during a time that the world was abandoned by the gods. In this godless world, larger and more malicious dragons take over calling themselves the Dragon Overlords. The rest of the dragons in the world are either dead, enslaved or completely disappeared. Magic has also vanished with the departure of the gods.

This series had a different feel from previous entries showing how strong the skills of the co-authors have improved over their time writing together. I had a great time reading these and I am likely to reread them again in the future as I occasionally like to revisit books in the Dragonlance series. This is a great book collection for fans of fantasy. As I said above, it can be read as a standalone but I recommend starting at the original trilogy if you want to enter this world in order to better understand the history of this world and people.

[Jamie Belanger · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting story plagued with so many technical errors it becomes hard to read. By the time I got to the second book, I couldn't turn a page without seeing at least one spelling or grammatical error. Things like that always slow my reading speed. And yet I kept turning those pages, because the story is exciting and the characters are vivid.

[Arvin Lising · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Dragonlance of the Fifth culminates here as Mina seeks the restore the faith in the One God. Armies amass to spread the faith of this new god, but forces are also shaping to prevent this happening. And new unlikely heroes emerge, with the "help" of a familiar irrepressible kender (whom everyone thought was dead!).

[Thom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tipical Dragonlance. A big sereis of events lead up to a single culmentating moment. I enjoyed it thouroughly because love the series so much. But probably one of the weaker trilogies in the Dragonlance chain.

[TL Jeffcoat · Rating 3 out of 5]

This trilogy was very impressive and showed the great improvement in writing skills of Weis over the years. I was not only completely absorbed by the storyline, I was totally in love with the characters more than any of the characters of the Chronicles trilogy from years before.

[Primadonna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining and gripping. Not as enjoyable as the Chronicles trilogy, though.

The story is more complex yet at times I don't "feel" the characters. Maybe because they're too many.

[Jeremy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty dark for a series that I thought was mostly aimed at teen-agers (so why am I reading them? Good question). The ending's poor I thought but the story's OK.

[J. Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

First book was great, but the last 2 sucked.

[Christopher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good series as expect from Weis and Hickman. My only "complaint" is that the ending felt a little rushed.

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are the books that got me started reading as a teenager. I read them again this year and I still think they are absolutely fantastic books.

[Eyjólfur Örn Jónsson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately I found this to be incredibly long winded and was almost entirely unable to maintain any kind of focus while reading it.

[Juan 🇵🇷 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book One: 4⭐⭐⭐⭐
Book Two: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Book Three: 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐