![]() ![]() What I Like: Paul's books are full of action, believable characters, and plot twists. The romance is only hinted at through most of book three, and Bardon always conducts himself as a perfect gentleman. He hopes to be a knight, but finds himself himself constantly challenged by new quests.ĭragonKnight ends with several family reunions, and a budding romance between Kale and Bardon. In DragonKnight, the third book, the focus switches to Bardon, a brave but troubled young man, with a mysterious past. She is aided by a unique and heroic band of companions, including tiny, flying dragons, an eccentric wizard, a fashionable and kind doneel, and graceful, elf-like emerlindians. In the first two books, ( DragonSpell and DragonQuest), Kale, uses her roles as DragonKeeper, and wizard-in-training, to help in the battles between good and evil. She rejoices in her new-found freedom, and chooses to join Paladin (an allegorical Christ-figure), and live her life performing whatever tasks Wulder places in front of her.Īll of the books center around the fight between Paladin and other followers of Wulder, and the evil Wizard Risto and his minions. She also learns her destiny is to be the DragonKeeper and train as a wizard. As she travels with her rescuers, she learns "Wulder," the creator, is not a child's myth, but a real being. However, a wrong turn leads to her capture and subsequent rescue. When Kale, a slave-girl, finds a valuable dragon egg, her masters send her to deliver the egg to the Hall, where she imagines she will become a servant. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings fantasy-adventures, but with an overtly Christian worldview. ![]() (I have only finished the first three books, but I can't wait to read the last two.) The books are a cross between Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrid ers of Pern fantasy series, and J.R.R. Paul's DragonKeeper Chroniclesseries is definitely worth reading. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.For those of you who love dragons, fantasy, and Christian allegory, Donita K. Her short fiction has won the Asimov's Readers' Award and she has been a finalist for both the Nebula and Hugo awards. ![]() The Inheritance, a collection of stories, was published under both names. ![]() Under the name Megan Lindholm she is the author of The Wizard of the Pigeons, Windsingers, and Cloven Hooves. She is the author of five critically acclaimed fantasy series: The Rain Wilds Chronicles ( Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, Blood of Dragons), The Soldier Son Trilogy, The Tawny Man Trilogy, The Liveship Traders Trilogy, and The Farseer Trilogy. She has lived most of her life in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Tacoma, Washington. It was there that she learned to love the forest and the wilderness. Robin Hobb was born in California but grew up in Alaska. And on an extraordinary odyssey with no promise of return, many lessons will be learned-as dragons and tenders alike experience hardships, betrayals.and joys beyond their wildest imaginings. Thymara, an unschooled forest girl, and Alise, wife of an unloving and wealthy Trader, are among the disparate group entrusted with escorting the dragons to their new home. If neglected, the creatures will rampage-or die-so itis decreed that they must move farther upriver toward Kelsingra, the mythical homeland whose location is locked deep within the dragons’ uncertain ancestral memories. The Traders have forgotten their promises, weary of the labor and expense of tending earthbound dragons who were hatched weak and deformed. Too much time has passed since the powerful dragon Tintaglia helped the people of the Trader cities stave off an invasion of their enemies. ![]()
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