Dragonhaven
by Robin McKinley
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Author: Robin McKinleyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-09-20
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 272
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Book Reviews of Dragonhaven
Book Review: Give it a Chance!
Summary: 4 Stars
While this book is not one of McKinley's best,it is better than the negative reviews led me to beleive.It does have it's flaws,however.The narration style is chatty,with lots of run-on sentences,and very different from her usual heartachingly beautiful prose.I also think that if she had set the story in a fantasy world,done third-person narration,and made the hero a girl instead of a boy,this could have been an amazing novel.But these imperfections don't stop Dragonhaven from being a good book.The story was interesting,and I like the fact that Mckinley portrayed the dragons in a positive light.Although Jake Mendoza talks a lot(and I mean a LOT!)I still liked him pretty well,and I loved the baby dragon,Lois!Dragonhaven is definitly a rough gem compared with Mckinley's other works,but if you can see past the talkative writing,you'll realize that,in it's own unique way,it is a bloody good read.This book is not for everyone,but it deserves a chance.
Summary of Dragonhaven
Jake Mendoza lives at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. Smokehill is home to about two hundred of the few remaining draco australiensis, which is extinct in the wild. Keeping a preserve for dragons is controversial: detractors say dragons are extremely dangerous and unjustifiably expensive to keep and should be destroyed. Environmentalists and friends say there are no records of them eating humans and they are a unique example of specialist evolution and must be protected. But they are up to eighty feet long and breathe fire.On his first overnight solo trek, Jake finds a dragon-a dragon dying next to the human she killed. Jake realizes this news could destroy Smokehill- even though the dead man is clearly a poacher who had attacked the dragon first, that fact will be lost in the outcry against dragons.
But then Jake is struck by something more urgent-he sees that the dragon has just given birth, and one of the babies is still alive. What he decides to do will determine not only their futures, but the future of Smokehill itself.
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