Weis & Hickman bring back Tasselhoff Burrfoot and the Device of Time Traveling (which was used well in the Legends Trilogy but is absurd here) and they do more than just murder Tas a second time (he died in the War of Chaos). They make him unlikable. They make him pestering and benign. They made me want to see him squashed like a bug beneath the foot of giant.

Likewise they do the same for an ancient Goldmoon and Laurana (who has not aged as she is elven) and even the minor character in Chronicles, Alhana Starbreeze. There are a whole bunch of children of the various now-dead heroes (all middle-aged in their fifties) and none of them are remotely compelling.

One of the new characters Gerard, a Solamnic Knight, is so dull that I can't even recall what he was actually doing in the series at all, yet he appears on the covers of the last two books as if he is somehow central and important to the plot, which he is not.

If by some miracle you decide to forego my warning against this sad money-maker trilogy, you must read the first two trilogies and Dragons of a Summer Flame to have any clue whatsoever what is going on. Even then you will be confused and bewildered as I was for the entire thing.

And I do not envy your descent into Mina-hell, one bit.