Sanctuary

by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya C. Cook

Book Overview

After being driven from their homeland by powerful enemies, the exiled elven nations travel to Khur, where an ancient map reveals a secret valley that could be a new sanctuary, unless secret forces make it an elven tomb.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078693817X
• ISBN13: 9780786938179
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.3" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Good book!

I am currently reading the second in this trilogy which is even better but this was certainly a good beginning with characters that were well developed.

Pretty Good Start to Trilogy

Sanctuary is the first in the Elven Exiles trilogy. I bought this trilogy because I had previously read the War of Souls trilogy and always wondered what happened to the elves. At the end of the last book from the War of Souls, the story with the elves was left very open ended. I had liked the elven characters, especially Gilthas. Although I was a bit skeptical about reading a Dragonlance book not by Margaret Weis or Tracy Hickman (I had not had the best of luck before), I enjoyed this book. The characters seemed true to those found in the War of Souls trilogy (as far as I remember) and were still interesting. The writing style wasn't the greatest, but it was still overall an enjoyable read. I would recommend it to any Dragonlance fans and I look forward to reading the other two books in this trilogy.

Pretty Good book in the Dragonlance setting

I'll admit, what fascinated me most about this novel when I started it is that it shows conventional elves (typical long-lived, magical, forest people) in a very atypical situation, where the elves are living in a tent city in the middle of a desert, at the mercy of the humans they live under the shelter of. But what makes this book a good read (not a superb read, but a good one) are two things. First, the main characters are an interesting group. You really get a feel for the burden they have, and how they react to the lack of a good answer for the problems facing the Elves (such as how they don't have the military strength to reclaim their homeland, and they don't really have a place of their own to head to). Second, the feel of the book is good. The way Thompson describes it, you really get a strong mental image of the Elves' condition - how they are weakening and becoming more impoverished the longer they stay where they are, the anger they feel about being in their humiliating position, and their frustration about not being able to reclaim their homeland, and being forced to bribe a corrupt desert ruler simply to stay ahead of their enemies.

good story

I liked this story of the Elves and their search for a new homeland. the story was engrossing and I truely felt for their plight. Can't wait until the next one comes out. May not be the best out there but is definitely worth reading. If you like books like this one, might I suggest another I've recently come across. The Unsuspecting Mage by Brian S. Pratt. It's another fantasy adventure sure to please. I highly recommend it.

Good start to a new trilogy

Sanctuary is the latest novel by Thompson and Cook set in the Dragonlance world. Before you go any farther, if you are considering reading this book there are two books that I think you need to read before you read this one. The first is The Puppet King by Doug Niles and the second is The Lioness by Nancy Berberick. These two books set the stage for this new trilogy. This book follows the exiled elves as they try to cope with being exiles from their land as they try to forge lives for themselves in a land they are not used to. Admittedly, I am not a big fan of elves, however, Thompson and Cook have proven to me that they can weave a tale worthy of reading. If you have yet to read the Ergoth Trilogy, I highly suggest you do so. Some of the best Dragonlance work out there today. On to Sanctuary. Being this is the first book in the trilogy, it has what one would expect. There is a lot of background information setting up the story and the major players of the story. The background information also allows the reader to have a pretty good idea of what has happened thus far, but if you don't read the two books I mentioned above first, you will lose the true scope of what has happened. If you don't, you will be able to understand this book, but it won't be as enjoyable for you. The plot is pretty straight forward in that the elves are trying to find a new homeland to call their own while at the same time trying to keep their race alive and flourishing. However, what looks on the surface as a straight-forward plot, soon turns into several small subplots each with the potential to affect the main plot. The authors proved they could do this type of plot with the Ergoth trilogy, and once again they prove apt at doing so here. There are several plots running through this story that at times the reader may `misplace' a character only to have them appear and shock you with what they are doing. When I first learned that the book would center on the elf king Gil and his wife The Lioness, I was a little apprehensive that these characters had been written by other author and how would that affect the characters continuity. Those fears were quickly resolved as the authors made these characters their own, without `stepping on the toes of the previous authors'. Since the characters had been written about before, the character development is a little slow. This book is obviously story line driven. However, by the end of the book I can see a lot of potential for the next two books to begin to focus more heavily on the characters. That's not to say that there was no character development, just not as much as in stand alone novels or novels that are more character driven. The authors prove that they were n fact the right people to tap for this story line. Just by reading the first book I can tell this story line will have some dynamic consequences all across the land of Krynn, Thompson and Cook were certainly the right couple to do this trilogy. As always it's tim