I came into this novel expecting a great read for some reason. I mean how could a story about knights be so bad. They like to kill things over and I like reading about stuff being killed. I was a bit surprised when the story focuses on a thief who becomes a knight. As a book it's is ok (being readable from start to end), however at times the novel tends to drag alot. The plot keeps shifting between different characters like Pirvan, Grimsoar, and Gerik. You get introduced to a bunch of characters who take up alot of room space wise in the novel and yet aren't very important. They have no depth and end up dying before you even have one iota of a reason to care for them. As for why the thief becomes a knight, apparently the adventure was reason enough for the knighthood to desire him among their ranks (admittedly even the recruiter mentioned that the knights were getting a bit desperate for members). The adventure while has a plot and shows how it MIGHT affect the world in a larger sense just doesn't have the sense of danger or urgency in it. Oh sure some bad guy has an evil dragon and they might decide to take over the world using the one dragon as his power base but of course the good guys get a good dragon very early in the novel as well so there's no real sense of doom. I think that's another reason the plot fails in this novel, you know that this story is a flashback and that Pirvan will become a knight in the first chapter of the novel. You can't really care about a main character as he goes through various trials if you know he'll be ok.
I recommend this novel to anyone who MUST collect all DragonLance novels ever made. For all other readers, I recommend checking for this at a library. It's definately not worth reading more than once.
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