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Summary: Gotta read it!!!!!
Review: Jane Yolens Sending of Dragons was incredible. Jakkin and Akki are stuck in the damp tunnels of a huge cave. They stumble across cave people bloodier than the cell wardens. They have to find a way out before the cave people can catch them. You've GOTTA READ IT!!!!!!
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Summary: Pathetic
Review: The first book Dragons Blood,was great. The second book, Hearts blood, was allright though i got tired of the continually repeating "I am a man" theme. But this third one is the worst. How can Jane YOlen have fallen so far!? The end they fear is near and there is no real resolution to the story, this could have used ten or fifteen more drafts before it was set loose.
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Summary: Not worth hearing about!
Review: The first book in this series wasn't that bad. (I guess I just don't like Yolen's style). But then came the second book, which was pathetic. It was like Jane Yolen was struggling to finish the damned series. But oh, no, she didn't stop there. She made a the momma of crappy books. Want some real books? Read the Eric Nylund and William Dietz's Halo series (The Fall of Reach, The Flood, and First Strike). Don't waste your crappy time on reading this book which sucks; big time.
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Summary: A Sending of Dragons
Review: The first book was awesome! A bit slow at parts, but hey! It kept me interested. The second book I really read more as to finally get the conflict settled and all, but no, of course this is a Trilogy. When I saw how the second book ended, I should have realized it was getting cheep. I rally should have, but only one more book to the Trilogy, right? So I read, and just what was THAT?! I kept reading, just waiting for it to get better, for the conflict to be solved. And it NEVER CAME. Like the energizer Bunny, it kept going and going, without any real answer. In the end they are all acting like they answered a question, but they didn't. And a guy who was supposed to be dead was now, not dead. This reminds me just of how Dragon Ball Z lost its charm. But wait, have I said yet that this is supposed to be THE THIRD BOOK IN THE TRILOGY?! Then it says, "Coming soon~ the forth book!" Well sorry if I'm not leaping for joy. If the fourth book is any good at all, maybe it should just replace the third. Sorry for being harsh, but this book was not my cup of tea. Read the first book, and maybe the second book, then just make up your own little happy ending, okay? You'll be happier that way, and far less disappointed. Especially after they act like they uncovered some great secret in the second, and in the third it isn't anymore. *Sigh* Yolen is rewriting her own rules. Moral, don't read.
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Summary: Definitely worth a read, especially for Yolen fans
Review: The third in the trilogy, this book is decidedly different, taking place entirely in the wilderness and away from society, and inside the minds of Akki and Jakkin. They can now communicate without speech, with pictures and emotions and colors. It is very fantastical and vivid, at points exciting and touching. I liked it quite a bit, but I'd read the first two books before this one.
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Summary: This book is a great book!
Review: This book is an exciting thriller; a great adventure. Wish there were more books in the series because this book sort of leaves you hanging expecting that there would be more. I really would like to give it 4 and a half stars. You should read the other two first otherwise it will be confusing. Dragon's Blood was really good, but Heart's Blood was the best.
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Summary: !!
Review: This book is incredible. It was amazing! with Jakkin and Akki attempting to escape from the bloody metal-makers of the mountains. While trying to save some dragons from meeting a bloody and sad death. I just wish that there was a fourth book to follow it up. It seems like you're left hanging there with no real ending and wishing you knew what would happen next.
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Summary: A Sending of Dragons
Review: This final volume of the Pit Dragons Trilogy is perhaps the most interesting, because it takes us away from the mainstream culture of Yolen's world, with it's Pit fights and its caste-system, and shows us another side of the planet Austar. Incidentally, this was the first Pit Dragon book I read - having found the British, Julia MacRae edition of it in an Australian second-hand bookstore.Jakkin and Akki have undergone a dragon-related physical transformation which enables them to share their thoughts telepathically and to survive the supercold Dark After of the Austarian night. Their peaceful existence with Heart's Blood's dragon hatchlings (Sssargon, Sssasha, and the Triplets) in the mountains of Austar is disturbed when there is a sign that they are being hunted by humans. They flee into the caves of the mountains, where they encounter an indigenous society of humans who are similarly bonded with the dragons. However, as they soon discover, these people's relationship with the dragons is much less benevolent than that which they themselves possess. So, for the last time, we see Jane Yolen's uncanny ability of deeply touching us with the courage and love of her characters, both human and draconian, and provoking our thoughts with her ingeniously invented cultures. Although the ending of this book ties off all the loose ends of the series, there is plenty of scope for more storytelling in Yolen's fascinating world of loving, feeling, and emphatic dragons. Hopefully this will not be our last visit to Austar.
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Summary: Moooore!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is sooo great! I can't believe Jane Yolen stoped writing these books! I really wish she had written more! But,I suppose it is good for you'r imagination to think up what happens next. This is such a good book for readers like me. Because of these books,dragons became my favorite animals! Well,if you would like to read this book,I won't stop you for one second!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Less than thrilling
Review: This review contains spoilers, if you haven't read the book. I really enjoyed the first two books of this series, but the third seemed to dwell on distractions while neglecting things that might have been more interesting. We already know the secret of gaining dragon sight and dragon abilities, and we could already guess the negative implications if the secret came out; belaboring the point by spending a large portion of the book with our heroes trapped in a phenomenally dull society that revolves around this act is overkill. I was also disappointed that the ending of the book cut off where it did; even the *prologue* went further, hinting at great turmoil and perhaps some genuinely interesting developments, none of which we get to stay around long enough to see. The last chapter of A Sending of Dragons feels rushed, and several things happen almost magically. Voila -- we've freed all the bonders? What, the entire socioeconomic structure of the planet has been turned upside down because one man thought it was a good idea, even one very popular senator? With what do they plan to replace that system, now that we have masses of illiterate free men and nobody to take care of the dragons? The book ends on an optimistic note, but we have the prologue to cast shadows over that -- we know there will be more violence, and the Federation will cut off the planet completely for 50 years as a result. This was exactly the result that Jakkin and his fellow masters originally feared, because it would render the dragon gaming pits irrelevant -- no off-planet betting in the pits, no pits, no justification for keeping dragons. Now the only use for dragons is that you can cut them open and become telepathic, if Jakkin and Akki let that little fact slip. What happens next? We'll never be told. This is all infinitely more compelling than what we actually get to sit in on during this book, a long and boring period of captivity among people who have the dragon sight but decline to use any of its nuances and just work themselves to death underground. Whatever happens to our protagonists and their dragons after the ending of the book, it can't be pleasant, despite the fluffy and abruptly cut-off ending that tries to imply bright possibilities for the future. A truly disappointing place to leave things.
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