Maybe my standards for dragon books are too high, because I have yet to find the Great One. Still, this was entertaining enough. Patrick Ness’ novel Burn is a young adult fantasy about an alternate universe during the Cold War. Here, dragons have existed forever and are a part of life, if an aloof and …
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Book Reviews | The Tea Dragon graphic novels
The Tea Dragon Society and The Tea Dragon Festival are two graphic novels for kids by Kate O’Neill. They are set in a fantasy land populated by various animals and creatures called tea dragons, which grow tea leaves on their horns. Society follows a girl called Greta, who is training to be a blacksmith but …
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Book Review | How to Train Your Dragon
In Cressida Cowell’s book How to Train Your Dragon, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III starts training with the other kids in Berk to be dragon masters. To do this, each of the boys must steal a dragon from the nest, and Hiccup gets a tiny, not-at-all-intimidating dragon who is very grumpy and stubborn. Yet this is …
Book Review | The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon follows four characters: In the east, Tané hopes to become a dragon rider, but worries that a choice on the eve of a critical day in her career could ruin her chances; meanwhile, Niclays grapples with his past when asked to harbor a foreign fugitive. In …
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Book Review | The Ruin of Kings
I wanted—and tried—to like this book, I swear. It received such a big marketing push in the months leading up to its release, I was excited to read it. Unfortunately, the blurbs and the buzz deceived me. The Ruin of Kings (more like Ruin My Month) by Jenn Lyons tells the story of Kihrin, a …
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