Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Mostly mediocre except for...

I read this many years ago when I was a teenager and the thing that really sticks in my mind is how awful the final story was. It's the worst bit of writing I've ever actually paid money for. Was getting published in this book the reward for this author winning some junior high school writing competition? (Of course not - it would be an insult to talented young writers!)Plus, piling on with the past of Raistlin (as other books do with other characters) seems by this stage more to do with commerce than DragonLance trying to be a truly consistent, believable fantasy world. (No wonder people question some material as canon.) Still, that is all DragonLance was designed to be I suppose. Young readers are recommended to try different fantasy series rather than scrape the barrel of the Dragonlance series.