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Summary: Good . . . somewhat.
Review: This book is a good dragon book, but doesn't fit very well in the fantasy category. While the story moves at a great tempo, I got lost, and bored in places. It would be nice to have a sequal to, but there's not much more good about it
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Summary: READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book was fabulous. It was exciting the whole way through. I have now become more interested in dragons as a result of this book. The descriptions make the dragons seem very much like real animals. I strongly recommend that you read this book
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Summary: One good book
Review: The book was great. I loved the way that Jane Yolen puts you in suspense at the end of the book, making you want to read the next. I was a bit disappointed when I had finished the book in two days and couldn't find the second for awhile. The whole series was so great, I finshed it in six days
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Summary: I series I want
Review: This book is really great. It consists of a fantasy world with a whole different planet that has some modern things; yet has dragons. The author knows who to put a fantasy of dragons into a small world of romance. The last chapter was a disappointment though. It mainly told what happened between his love Akki and himself. It faintly described his dragon. but as my friends know; I love the fantasy world. I reccomend it completely.
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Summary: Dragon's Blood is AWESOME
Review: Dragons Blood was a great book. I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to read a great book or if you just naturally just love dragons. I read this book for BOTH those reasons. I have lended it to many of my fellow fifth graders and they are all giving me the same things they are "That was great" or "I loved it." I adore dragons(Even though they are not real.) I have read many books alike. If you like this book, here are some quick recommendations
1. Eragon
2. Dragon Rider
3. Jeremy Thatcher,Dragon Hathcher
These books are all great and I recommend you try to read them all.
THANK YOU FOR READING MY REVIEW
P.S. I am wanting to do more reviews on the second and third book of The Dragon Pit trilogy so keep your eyes open for me.
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Summary: Dragon's Blood
Review: A fascinating, funny and charming story of slavery, love, hard work and success that walks the line between science fiction and fantasy and will intrigue readers of any age. The world and society Yolen creates is just outlandish enough to keep things interesting while its inhabitants stay decidedly human. Topics such as drug abuse, crime and prostitution are handled competently.
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Summary: A Dragon of His Own
Review: Dragon's Blood is the first novel in the Pit Dragon trilogy. Austar IV has been used as a dumping ground for convicts in the past. It is a metal-poor desert planet with only one notable feature: its dragons. These warm-blooded flying animals are raised for their meat and leather, but are also the star attraction of the many gambling arenas, or pits, that form the major industry on the planet.In this novel, Jakkin is a bond boy who is determined to steal himself a dragon and train it into a champion, the traditional way to become a master. His father had been a trainer before being killed by a feral dragon, but Jakkin knows nothing more of such techniques than is common knowledge. He has found a small spring in the dunes and planted it with reeds, blisterweed and burnwort for his snatchling. Then he waits for the eggs to begin hatching. While he is waiting, the bonder Likkarn finds that Jakkin has left behind a bath brush after bathing Blood Brother and comes after him in anger, beating him with the brush. All this hostility arouses Blood Brother to a manic state and the dragon rushes out of the stall, walking over both Jakkin and Likkarn. Likkarn struggles up and uses the extinguisher set on Kill against the dragon. The master, Sarkkhan, breaks Likkarn to a stall boy for that deed. When Jakkin fully wakes a week later, the hatching is already over; nonetheless, he checks the new hatchlings and finds one that has not been counted. Now he has his snatchling. For the next year, Jakkin trains his dragon in secret. He is forced to accept Akki, a bond girl, into the secret, because she has discovered and protected it on her own even before he became aware that she knew. At first Jakkin is slightly jealous of how well the little dragon accepts Akki, but soon the three become close friends. It is Akki that arranges a first arena fight for Jakkin's Red. This story is a tale of a penal colony much like Botany Bay after the second or third generation. Very few convicts remain, but the colony is no lush agricultural garden spot and life is harsh. Most of the population are bonders, indentured until they can pay back a bag of gold coins and go free. Sarkkhan is one of the few who have managed to gain more than freedom and become masters, holding the bonds of others. This story also relates the close relationship between a dragon and his trainer. Jakkin can communicate mentally with his Red and receive emotional tones and colors in return. The reader witnesses the exchange of thought and emotion between the pair, becoming almost a part of the relationship. The dangers of the planet are vividly revealed when Jakkin helps hunt down a carnivorous drakk female and her brood, eaters of dragon eggs and hatchlings. Later the male drakk finds Jakkin with his Red and he has to fight the flying hunter with a table knife. Another time he almost freezes to death in the Dark-After before he can reach shelter. Highly recommended for Yolen fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of human-animal bondings, exotic cultures, and strangely foreboding planets.
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