Killing time at Weisshaupt, a young elven mage uncovers a manuscript from the Fourth Blight that reveals the Faustian bargain made by the Grey Wardens and their fabled griffons.

I have a low bar for Dragon Age tie-ins generally, but even so, I think Last Flight is an excellent novel, full of bleakness and casual brutality ("Knight-Liutenant Diguier had died a few weeks earlier..."). I would happily read the author's other novels. ( )

De los libros que he leído sobre Dragon Age, este sin duda es el más flojo de todos, lo que me produce mucha pena porque tiene pinta de que el tema de los grifos y su reaparición estará contado de algún modo en el cuarto juego; y a lo mejor vemos mencionada a Valya o incluso aparece.
No he conseguido conectar con los personajes, ni con las protagonistas, Valya e Isseya, y la historia podría haber dado mucho más de sí. Quizás ha sido demasiado narrativo para mi gusto. ( )

This is the first Dragon Age novel I can confidently say I really enjoyed. I have nothing but respect for the work Gaider and Weekes have done on the games, but for whatever reason their skills just didn't translate to writing a good novel, in my opinion. I love that this was told from the perspective of Garahel's sister, instead of his own. I love that there was no forced romance between Isseya and her mentor in magic/comrade in battle. This is really a 3.5 star book for me because of some small continuity errors here and there and one glaring mention of the Champion of Kirkwall made by Isseya, who lived 400 years before the events of Dragon Age II. That mistake took me out of the story for a bit, but other than that it was a beautiful tragic tale of what really happened during the Fourth Blight. ( )

The Last Flight is a DA story about unintended consequences. It's split into two parts that go back and forth as the book progresses. The first part takes place during the Mage/Templar rebellion and after the events of DA Origins. The Gray Wardens are recruiting and Valya, a young elvish mage, is sent to the Warden stronghold in the Anderfels where she is assigned to do research on the Fourth Blight. The alternating story is of the research she's doing when she finds a journal detailing events that took place during that time. The Fourth Blight was when the darkspawn invaded Antiva, Rivain, and the Free Marches, held back only by the Gray Wardens and their Griffons. While Griffons have long disappeared from this world, Valya is fascinated by the story she finds in Isseya's journal. Isseya is an elvish mage, Gray Warden, and griffon rider and also sister to Garahel, the only elf to defeat an Archdemon and put an end to a blight.
I found the Valya parts of the book a little weak, but the story of Isseya and Garahel which was fascinating and more than made up for any structural weakness in the other sections. I can only hope that griffons may once again appear in Thedas. ( )

After reading all the Dragon Age books, I can definitely say I've saved the best for last. Both the characters and the exploration of actions, morality and suffering were on a whole different level here when compared to, say, Asunder, which was my first Dragon Age book and almost turned me off from reading them any further.

It was also fun to see some "real" Gray Wardens in the middle of their duty: as amazing as the Warden ends up being in Origins, there is still definitely the feeling of playing it by the ear as far as Gray Warden things go. Here, we get to see some more of their actual hierarchy and methods, for better or for worse. ( )