I am four books behind right now, until I finish this review. On the bright side, that won’t take long because, on the less bright side, I’m having a really hard time to holding onto reviewable information about Dragons of the Highlord Skies. I mean, it’s another DragonLance book set concurrently with the second one from the original trilogy, in which the knights and the elf chick fight a war at the South Pole while the evil chick struggles to improve or maintain her rank within the evil armies. Both stories are pretty decent examples of what I like about the series in general: sympathetic characters, occasional comedy, good action. Mythic resonance, not so much, but that never works right when rehashing old events that have previously been mentioned off-screen.

The framing device kind of sucked, and I hope they don’t use it again for the third book. But other than that, it’s still basically recommendable for fans of old-school Weis & Hickman.