{"id":480,"date":"2008-08-09T20:30:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T02:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=480"},"modified":"2008-08-09T20:30:57","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T02:30:57","slug":"dragons-of-the-highlord-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Dragons of the Highlord Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am four books behind right now, until I finish this review. On the bright side, that won&#8217;t take long because, on the less bright side, I&#8217;m having a really hard time to holding onto reviewable information about <a title=\"Dragons of the Highlord Skies by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dragons-Highlord-Skies-Dragon-Lance\/dp\/0786948604\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dragons of the Highlord Skies<\/a>. I mean, it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The framing device kind of sucked, and I hope they don&#8217;t use it again for the third book. But other than that, it&#8217;s still basically recommendable for fans of old-school Weis &amp; Hickman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am four books behind right now, until I finish this review. On the bright side, that won&#8217;t take long because, on the less bright side, I&#8217;m having a really hard time to holding onto reviewable information about Dragons of the Highlord Skies. I mean, it&#8217;s another DragonLance book set concurrently with the second one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}