copy-pasted from my Librarything account: Reads quite smoothly. Great to see how two brothers are separated, each leading a different life: one out in the forest, learning to surive and be one with nature; the other surrounded by rules, regulations, family, servants, richness and more. The sheer contrast alone is makes this a very fine story. Also how to deal with other nations, how to find an agreement and so on. This book has it all: love, friendship, deceit, politics, justice, ... One remark, though: here and there a lack of full stops, commas, and so on, which makes reading a bit 'difficult'. Editing error? ( )

My wife wanted to read a "D&D Novel", she has played before, but never read a novel based in a D&D world. We got to about page 100 before I pulled the plug. The elves weren't majestic or mysterious, really no different from humans. The story overall seemed kind of "young adult" and we've been reading a lot of gritty, adult fantasy lately so it just seemed really slow and juvenile. ( )

I read this trilogy many years ago (I believe it was back in early 1992). I’ve been going through all of my old DragonLance books and picking up new ones along the way and it was time to read back through the Elven Nations Trilogy.

While this was a quick read and a good story, it wasn’t as good as I once remembered it if I take it as an individual book. But taken as a whole, this book sets the scene for the rest of the trilogy and the next two books are where the action lies. ( )

Not a great book, but interesting. ( )