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Summary: Great!...till the end.
Review: I loved this book I truly did but how you can you expect me to wait a freakin 1000 years for the third one to come out. I read it about two years ago and now when the third one does eventully come out I'll have to read the first two again. I don't mind reading books again it's just a hassle when you don't have that much time. For Gods sake by the time the forth comes out I'll have read all the books at least four times geez, but besides that they were both wonderful books I just had to let my toramet out thank you very much!
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Summary: *this book was great!
Review: I realy loved this book. My only complaint is that she dident write more of these books.
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Summary: The Book of Water
Review: It was an interesting section of a story. It is staring to look like it will take all four books to make the complete story. At least they got it right with the main characters speaking different languages. I was dissapointed that it did not answer many questions instead it posed more without answers. I would recomend waiting till you can get all four books.
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Summary: Loved it!!!
Review: It was an wonderful book! Not quite as good as the first but it make me "hungry" for the next two books!
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Summary: I enjoyed every page!!
Review: It was quite a "thriller". I can't wait for Fire and Air to come out!! When will that be any way?! It's been over two years already!! I mean, come on, it does not take that long to write a book like that!!!!!
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Summary: An Enchanting Story
Review: Since I read this book a year ago I have read at least a hundred other stories, yet this book still sticks in my mind as a wonderful tale. While the leading man introduced with this book leaves me cold, as lacking some of the lovable qualities of Erde, I love the new dragon Water. Ms. Kellogg's vision of a future earth is unique and provides a wonderful setting for this poignant story. Believable characters and a plot that keeps you guessing, this is a book *worthy of having a sequel printed sometime this century*. Ahem. :) I can't wait to see the rest of the Quartet.
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Summary: Somewhat thin...
Review: The Book of Water, the second book in the Dragon quartet series, is a masterpiece of modern literature. The main characters in the story, Earth and Water; along with their dragon guides Erde and N'Doch, are well writen and highly likable. The enemy this time is some what less noticable then the enemy of the first book, Fra Guill, but anyone who is rooting for the dragons should be able to spot him.Those who love Dragon Lore of any type are sure to find this a wholy enjoyable book.
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Summary: Marjorie B. Kellogg scores again
Review: The Book of Water, the second book in the Dragon quartet series, is a masterpiece of modern literature. The main characters in the story, Earth and Water; along with their dragon guides Erde and N'Doch, are well writen and highly likable. The enemy this time is some what less noticable then the enemy of the first book, Fra Guill, but anyone who is rooting for the dragons should be able to spot him.Those who love Dragon Lore of any type are sure to find this a wholy enjoyable book.
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Summary: A fantasy series that doesn't play by the rules!
Review: The Book of Water, the second in the series begun with the Book of Earth, has some wonderfully unexpected surprises. Take all your notions of typical fantasy books--now, turn them all upside-down. I was not as impressed by the first book; it did seem to follow the standard formulas somewhat, and it didn't seem too daring. But the sequel makes it clear that the solid certainties of the Book of Earth were meant to lull readers into a false sense of security. I thought I knew where the series was headed--boy, was I wrong! Several questions were answered, but many more mysteries have cropped up, not least of which is the nature of the main characters--the dragons themselves. At this point, I am a committed reader of the series, eagerly awaiting the next book. Reccommended
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Summary: Much less engaging than the first entry in the series
Review: The Book of Water, the second novel in the Dragon Quartet, is an exceedingly different novel than its predecessor The Book of Water. This is largely explained by the fact that the setting has changed from the Germanies of 913 to an African country in the year 2013. Admittedly, I was deeply rooted into the Middle Ages account of the first book and very much in harmony with young Erde and the Dragon Earth. So, so much seemed to happen in that novel. The Book of Water is exact same number of pages, but very little seemed to happen this time around. The new Dragon Guide we meet here is also very difficult to like, and that above all else diminished the impact of this novel for me personally. Erde went about everything with complete sincerity, but this new Guide, despite Erde's (not to mention two dragons') influences upon him, does not seem to have a sincere bone in his body.When the world was created, four dragons (Earth, Water, Fire, and Air) were created to do the work, after which point they went to ground, to sleep until this world they had created ended. Now, the dragons are reawakening, answering a summons they do not yet understand and remembering only bits and pieces of their own history. Each of the four books in the series gives us a newly reawakened dragon and his/her Dragon Guide. Water is the older sister of Earth, and her special dragon ability is shape-shifting. Earth and Erde have responded to a summons and jumped from 913 to 2013 to join forces with Water and her guide. N'doch is Erde's exact opposite; there is always a culture clash when a baron's daughter from 913 meets up with a street-smart dreamer from an environmentally abused earth of 2013, but N'doch can never seem to get his head together. In the first several chapters (and this becomes increasingly annoying to the reader), he thinks his introduction to Erde and the two dragons is some kind of Candid Camera setup, and he oftentimes has the remarkable ability to forget, despite the proximity of his new companions, that dragons actually exist - and not just during those times that Water has shape-shifted herself into the image of a human. Each time you think he finally sees the light, he returns to the same selfish person interested only in his own future and dreams, never fully accepting his responsibilities as a dragon guide. Very little actually happens here, and the action of the second half of the novel is just a little too far "out there" for my tastes. Erde was in constant danger and surrounded by incredibly important acts and events in the first novel, but our main characters here just seem to bumble around, oftentimes with no real sense of purpose, and hide on a few occasions. Without the steadying influence of Erde and Earth, this novel might have developed into a true free-or-all. The author made things a little worse than they could have been by choosing to present N'doch's story from a third person present tense. This seems an entirely unnecessary and sometimes clumsy way to distinguish between the remarkably different perspectives of N'doch and Erde. Thank goodness for Erde's dreams, I must add, as they retain for the reader a strong link to the events still going on in her own time of 913 - that is where the true action and suspense in this series lies - at least so far.
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