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Summary: fun and funny
Review: This whole series is great, and should appeal not only to kids but to adult fans of Fractured Fairytales.This particular book is the last one in the series, and should not really be read as a stand-alone book. But it does seem fresh and different, because it follows two brand new characters. We also get a better sense of what it is like to wander around in the Enchanted forest if you are not the King of the Dragons or the King of the Enchanted Forest. All the talk in earlier books about how the forest can be a dangerous place starts to make more sense. Finally, there is a sort of chaste romance that takes place, featuring just one kiss (and that one for magical purposes). It's fun to watch develop, because it seems a lot more real than the type of love-at-first-sight or hate-turns-to-love romances that fantasy books often feature.
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Summary: :)
Review: My teacher read DEALING WITH DRAGONS to my class when i was in kindergarden. Everyone loved it. in second grade i started to read the rest of the series. i went through them, and i give them all *****. but if i had to pick my favorite, it would deffinately be Talking to Dragons. Now i'm in 6th grade, and i still read every book in this series again and again. If you happen to see this review, and you don't know if you're going to get the book, GET IT!!! if you read it, i'm positive you'll be getting the 'collectors addition' to read to your kids.
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Summary: FANCIFUL, FANTASTIC ENTERTAINMENT!
Review: "Talking To Dragons," a fantastic, fanciful odyssey with a company of dragons, elves, witches, felines and magicians deserves a fabulous presentation, which is exactly what it is given with this full cast of able players. It's a listener's delight. Billed as the concluding episode in Wrede's acclaimed Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book Four opens to find King Mendanbar still imprisoned. Queen Cimorene has been living almost in seclusion at the edge of the Enchanted Forest with their son Daystar.
Now that Daystar is deemed old enough to rescue his father a multitude of challenges await him. Alone he must traverse the Enchanted Forest with a magic sword, a fire-witch, and a baby dragon. There are many who will challenge him. It's all in the name of good excitement presented with crackling dialogue and imaginative situations. When it comes to fantasy, Wrede knows her magic spells. - Gail Cooke
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Summary: Enchantemt, Magic, Humor, - AND A REALLY GREAT PLOT!
Review: When 16 year old Daystar's mother, Cimerone, gives him a magic sword and tells him to leave home and to not come back until his task is finished, he obeys. The problem is, Daystar has no idea what his task is! He sets off into the Enchanted Forest totally confused. He meets a stubborn young firewitch who doesn't know how to do her magic, called Shiara. They embark on a dangerous journey through the Enchanted forest and still don't know where they are going. Daystar learns that his sword is the sword of the Sleeping King, Mendanbar, that he must go to the kingdom of dragons and seek for King Mendanbar and give him his sword. This is a must read for children and adults of all ages! I recommend it to fantasy and non-fantsy/fiction and non-fiction readers and this book is no waste of money!
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Summary: Continuing Book
Review: When Cimorine sends her son Daystar off into the Enchanted Forest with only a sword and not even a reason to be there, it gave me the idea that new adventure was coming. I liked the book because I just couldn't stop reading once I started! It was great until the end... Once I finished the last page I was disappointed. I just had all these questions in my mind that weren't answered.I couldn't believe that the book ended like that. I especially have one question, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?????? Please continue this story in another book.
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Summary: For Harry Potter lovers!
Review: A real good book for Harry Potter and fantasy lovers! Under the wing of the mysterious Branwen, who claims to be his mother, the namless boy learns the lore of the ancient peoples and discovers the dragon inside himself.
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Summary: Talking to Dragons... A wonderful book
Review: The book I chose is "Talking to Dragons" by Patricia C Wrede was a wonderful book. Cimorene lives at the edge of the Enchanted Forest with her son Daystar. Until the day Atroll came. Atroll is a wizard that has been after Cimorene for years. After Cimorene melts Atroll Daystar has to leave. His mother says that he has to find what he is looking for before he can come home. The thing is he dose not know what he is looking for. On his adventure Daystar encounters a fire witch, a witch, a magician, a lizard named Suz, Kazul King of the Dragons, a young Dragon, and the King of the Enchanted Forest. In this story I liked almost all the characters, because they had funny personalities. I didn't like Suz the lizard, or the young Dragon because they were annoying. Suz would cut every sentence short or answer for you. (Example: You didn't do you? Oh you did. Yes you really did). The Dragon was always talking about eating wizards. I think the message of this story is to be polite to every one and you will find out what you need to know. What I liked best about this book was it was very exciting. The thing I liked the least was that there were a lot of wizards in the book. I thought that the middle of the was the best because it gave you all the details. I think the author keep the reared interested. I also think that the book has just the right amount of deities. The vocabulary in the book is not hard but the names are. I love the way this book is written. This book to me would be appropriate for the ages 9-15 because young children might not under stand it and older kids might not like it. I thought this was a good book and I hope you will to! By,
KNR
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Summary: Hilarious from the beginning
Review: From when the wizard is melted all the way until the happy ending, this book will keep you interested in the story, laughing until the end. I saw this book sitting in my parents' house one day and decided to read it. I have read it several times since. It was not until recently that I realized this book was the end of a series. So of course, I read the other novels. Wrede has written these books about the Enchanted Forest remarkably well. If you enjoy fantasy novels, this is the book for you. Look for some of the same silly inclusions as found in Piers Anthony. Withces, Magicians, melting wizards, hidden princesses, dragons, enchanted Kings.. what more could you ask for?
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Summary: New twist on fairy tales
Review: I notice that many of the reviews comment on how this is different from the first three - actually, this book was written first! I have an old edition and when I compared it to the new version, I found some slight (but important) changes. Yes, the main characters seem like cameos - it's because they were not the focus of the book - the characters seem less developed because the first three books hadn't been written. Nevertheless, it is a delightful book and I'm glad she has updated it to fit with Vols 1,2 and 3. Also check out the short story in Tales of Enchantment for more on Daystar, Cimorene et al.
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Summary: A wonderful read for young and old alike
Review: This is the fourth and final book in the Enchanted Forest chronicles. While it is very good and does a nice job of wrapping up loose ends, I didn't find it quite as enjoyable as the first thee books. This is largely because the action takes place sixteen years after the events in Calling On Dragons. All of the main characters return for the climax in the battle between the dragons and the Enchanted Forest kingdom against the Society of Wizards, but in most cases they seem to be less substantive to me. One of the strongest assets Wrede brings to bear in her writing is excellent characterization. Having come to know the characters very well from the previous books in the series, their appearances here seemed more like cameo roles; if I did not already know these characters, their appearances and places in the overall story would not make a great deal of sense to me. In some cases, especially in the case of Cimorene, characters didn't really act the way I expected them to, even given the passage of such a long time. This book is different from its predecessors. For one thing, it is written in the first person. Daystar, the son of Cimorene, is suddenly witness to a wizard melting, given a mysterious sword, and instructed by his mother to enter the Enchanted Forest with virtually no instructions as to what he must do. For his own protection, he has never been told of his heritage and history. This novel is the story of his quest, his discovery of his own special fate, and his realization of his ultimate purpose in life, which is to free his father, defeat the ignominious ambitions of the Society of Wizards, and secure the magically vibrant future of the Enchanted Forest. Although we as the reader know, if we have read the previous stories, who Daystar is and what he must do, it is interesting to see him discover the truth for himself and to learn just what the magical sword he was given by Cimorene is. The companions he meets along his journey are wonderful new characters, especially the fire-witch Shiara; she, like Daystar, is trying to discover and use her own talents; unfortunately for her, being a rather impatient, somewhat hot-tempered fire-witch, she finds herself able to use her magical powers only after she has been polite to others, politeness not being one of her assets by any means. Still, she is inherently likeable and easy to relate to. The young dragon that accompanies the group is the source of many delightfully comic moments. This book is geared more to young people than the others in the series, it would seem. In this case, all of the protagonists--human, fire-witch, and dragon--are young people learning how to act, how to respect others, and how to succeed in life. Any lessons for young adult readers, though, are subtle and take nothing away from a great story which I, as an adult, enjoyed immensely. I must point out, though, that anyone unfamiliar with the first three books in the series may well have problems understanding just who everyone is and what is going on at times. This is a wonderful series for young and old alike, and I for one hope most sincerely that a fifth Enchanted Forest novel will appear some time in the future.
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