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Dragongirl
- Dragonriders of Pern, Book 21
- De: Todd McCaffrey
- Narrado por: Emily Durante
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
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Young Fiona, rider of the gold queen Talenth, has returned from the past, where she and a group of dragons and riders fled so that the wounded could heal from their previous battles. Gone only three days, yet aged more than three years, Fiona is no longer a child but a woman prepared to fight against the Thread that threatens to destroy her world.
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"Stuck in Time with No Conclusion"
- De HZ en 08-10-10
- Dragongirl
- Dragonriders of Pern, Book 21
- De: Todd McCaffrey
- Narrado por: Emily Durante
Love Pern still, but this is too confusing
Revisado: 04-04-25
Most of the other reviews I read for Dragongirl were very negative. While I have to agree that this is probably my least favorite of the Pern books so far, I didn’t find it all bad.
This book continues the story arc that began about six books back with Kindan and the Watchwhers. During the first two or three books Kindan was a young boy who had all kinds of different adventures and interacted over the years with lots of people and situations. He has trained as a Harper, and because Harpers are often called on to do healing, he has become something of a Healer too. His healing skill got a lot of painful practice during the people plague about ten years before the beginning of this book, during which his first love, Korianna, died.
The main character of Dragongirl is Fiona, Korianna’s baby sister.
About two books back, we were introduced to Fiona, the second daughter of the Fort Hold holder, and Korianna’s baby sister. Kindan saved her life during the human plague, or at least this is the way she sees it, and she has had a crush on him ever since.
After Fiona, who has recently impressed a dragon – Talenth – at Fort Weyr, along with all the weyrlings (young dragon riders) and their dragons, along with most of Fort’s injured older dragon riders, has spent three years at the abandoned Igen Weyr learning to fly Thread and recovering from their injuries, returns to the Fort Weyr of the present, they land smack in the middle of the Dragon Plague again. The leader of the Telgar Weyr has just foolishly led all the dragons of his weyr Between without meaning to because he insisted on overworking them and ignoring the fact that the dragons were sick. Fiona and the dragons and riders she had worked with at Igen get volunteered to go to Telgar to take up the slack.
They have been there about two days when Talenth comes down with the Dragon Plague. She is not the only one.
Fortunately, Laurana and Kindan show up shortly thereafter with the plague cure. And decide to stay there.
Despite the cure, despite ‘timing it’ to train the weyrlings and young dragons, and despite the various weyrs sharing their dragon wings, there still aren’t enough dragons to properly fight thread, and this will lead to a higher rate of injuries and deaths.
At this point, the story seems to become needlessly confusing, and that is where I am most disappointed with it. With the new characters among the weyrfolk of Telgar, frequent and very confusing instances of timing it (shorter than their three-year stint at Igen, but they sometimes wind up flying the same instance of threadfall two or three times in an attempt to get it all), and various mating flights as nearly every Gold dragon on Pern rises within the space of a couple of weeks, with the attendant mating frenzy among the dragon riders, it is next to impossible to keep up with what is going on.
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Age of Myth
- Book One of The Legends of the First Empire
- De: Michael J. Sullivan
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 16 h y 55 m
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Since time immemorial, humans have worshipped the gods they call Fhrey, truly a race apart: invincible in battle, masters of magic, and seemingly immortal. But when a god falls to a human blade, the balance of power between humans and those they thought were gods changes forever. Now only a few stand between humankind and annihilation: Raithe, reluctant to embrace his destiny as the God Killer. Suri, a young seer burdened by signs of impending doom. And Persephone, who must overcome personal tragedy to lead her people.
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- De Sterling en 06-30-16
- Age of Myth
- Book One of The Legends of the First Empire
- De: Michael J. Sullivan
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Long ago, but not so far away...
Revisado: 03-12-25
The Age of Myth is the first book in a new series set in the same world as the Riyria Chronicles and Riyria Revelations series. This series is set thousands of years before the other two and attempts to explain the origins of some of the conditions in those series. Apparently, some of what is believed in the later years doesn’t necessarily square with what seems to be happening in the early years.
In this time, there are at least as many species of human-like creatures as there are in later times, but the balance of population and power is very different. The dominant species is the Fhrey (like Elves). It’s unclear whether they outnumber the humans (whom they call Rhunes), but they out-power them, being able to wield vast magical powers. By the time of the Riyria guys, the Fhrey have all but disappeared except for in their greatly reduced homeland, seem to have little power left, and are treated as little better than animals – sort of like they treat the Rhunes in this book.
Several plot threads are going on in this book. To begin with, Rhune hunter Raithe and his father cross the river that is the boundary into the Fhrey lands to hunt. There they encounter a Fhrey hunter who condemns them to death for trespassing. The Fhrey kills Raithe’s father and prepares to do the same to Raithe. Raithe prepares to defend himself with his father’s sword, which disintegrates at its first encounter with the Fhrey blade, and Rraithe assumes he is a goner. But one of the Fhrey’s Rhune slaves sneaks up behind him and hits him in the head with a rock killing him. The two of them take off before some other Fhrey comes along and accuses them of the deed.
The slave’s name is Malcom. Though he is a Rhune, he has lived with the Fhrey for a long time and has absorbed something of the dry humor of the Fhrey. His conversations with Raithe are somewhat reminiscent of those between Royce and Hadrian in the Riyria books, although, perhaps because their situation is more serious they don’t seem to have time to be quite as funny.
Among the Fhrey, Raithe is credited with killing the Fhrey hunter. And among the Rhunes, he acquires the nickname of “the godkiller,” because the Rhunes believe the Fhrey are gods and cannot be killed. This is a very big deal. But it is sort of dangerous. The Fhrey send out parties to punish him, and several clusters of Rhune villages (called Dahls) are destroyed completely in the next few months.
All the forces converge on the little village of Dahl Rhen. Their mystic, a girl of around fourteen named Suri (a precious innocent with a pet white wolf named Minna) has had a vision of bad things happening in the village and comes, per the instructions of her late mentor, a woman named Tura, to share the information with the clan chieftain, who is not there to receive the message because he is off being killed. Suri tells his wife, Persephone, instead.
In a few days, another chieftain is selected, but he appears worse than useless, and when Persephone and Suri venture into the forest to consult a wise old oak, he and several of his men follow her. Persephone thinks they are there to guard her and Suri, but they soon discover otherwise, and if Raithe and Malcom hadn’t come upon them, Persephone, Minna, and possibly Suri would have been killed. Instead, one of the chieftain’s men falls down the waterfall and is killed, and another loses an arm. Raithe and Malcom wind up escorting Suri and Persephone to the tree, and Konniger (the chieftain) and his men return to the village to stir up sentiment for having Persephone killed.
As if the internal politics of the Dahl aren’t complicated enough, the village is attacked by three separate groups of Fhrey. Persephone makes peace with the first group, from the Instaria hunter tribe that the Fhrey that Raithe and Malcom killed belonged to. They are led by a Fhrey named Nephron, who seems to be sort of a rogue himself.
Later, they are accosted by a Fhrey woman named Arion, a high-ranking Fhrey from the powerful Myralyith tribe which has much more powerful magic. She is somehow disabled (burned badly by magic), and the rest of the village and their new Fhrey allies are all for leaving her to die. But in accord with the advice of the wise old oak, Persephone and Suri undertake to heal her.
Then yet another party of Fhrey, including Gryndal, the Fhrey First Minister (who wants to be ruler of the whole nation of Fhrey, and is convinced he is a god) turns up. It isn’t pretty. Good thing Arion is still there.
There is more. Stuff about a rogue man-eating bear. A confession from Konniger is apparently supposed to explain why he wants to kill Persephone, only it doesn’t, despite other things it explains.
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Dragonvein, Book One
- De: Brian D. Anderson
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Carentan, France, 1944 - Ethan Martin, a soldier in the 101st Airborne, is fighting for his life. But soon he will learn what peril truly is when he is ripped from his world and transported to a land of magic, swords, and dragons. And though the Nazis are now far, far away, danger is closer than ever.
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Interesting Story but very light on in details.
- De Kindle Customer en 07-16-15
- Dragonvein, Book One
- De: Brian D. Anderson
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
Portal Fantasy with some unusual twists
Revisado: 02-25-25
Dragonvein Book 1 would be an average portal fantasy with dragons except for a few unusual twists.
Most of the characters are good – except for the ones who are monsters, of course. My favorites are Kat, the young girl thief who claims to really be a princess, and Lady Thorax, the noble Dwarf woman who takes Kat under her wing when it looks like Ethan and his other friends may be killed.
It begins with servant Jonas taking the infant Ethan Dragonvein, son of the last Lord Dragonvein, through a magical portal from their home world of Lumia (or Lumnia – with an audiobook, it’s sometimes difficult to tell exactly how a particular word (especially an exotic one) should be spelled) - to Earth for his safety. All is well and good, except that the usual magical portal typically goes the other way.
But in this instance, the next time we encounter Ethan and Jonas, they are in France in the middle of World War II. Ethan is not quite old enough to be in the 101st Airborne, but like so many of his peers he has acquired fake papers stating that he is. He has already survived D-Day and is now in the middle of mopping up operations in Carentan, France. It’s still a dangerous situation though, s there are still some live Germans in the buildings they are searching.
Ethan is accompanied by his best friend from childhood, Marcus. When Jonas, whom Ethan doesn’t remember ever having seen before, opens another portal trying to save Ethan from the fighting going on around them, Marcus is pushed through several minutes before Jonas can convince Ethan to come with him.
Bad news. Because of the way these portals work, Marcus winds up at a very different time in Lumia from where Ethan and Jonas land. Jonas suggests they may never find him, but, though all is not exactly sweetness and light, they do.
Ethan has trouble adjusting to the very different culture of Lumia. When they finally stumble across Marcus, they realize he has had trouble adjusting too, although, having had about twelve years longer, he has come much farther than Ethan.
Ethan acquires another friend, a girl named Kat, whom he saves from having her hand cut off for thievery. But this draws unwanted attention to them, and they spend the next half of the book running and hiding from the Empire. Jonas attempts to explain why they want Ethan so badly, but he doesn’t seem entirely sure himself, so we don’t learn a lot until they are captured by the Dwarves.
A miner Dwarf, Berger or Berjer (again spelling), captures them and takes them to his King, Halvar. At first, they are imprisoned, then given nicer quarters where they are locked in. The King can’t seem to decide whether to execute them or send them out to face the Empire, despite a promise his ancestors made to Ethan’s father to protect him. Finally, fearing the execution option is too likely, they sneak out a back entrance to the city only to be attacked immediately by soldiers of the Empire. Without warning, Ethan finds himself channeling the magic of dragons. After he recovers, they begin to get some answers, although not nearly enough.
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Light Bringer
- Red Rising, Book 6
- De: Pierce Brown
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 30 h y 8 m
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The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow. Because after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.
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The blight of ensemble voice cast are gone!
- De azwildcat en 07-28-23
- Light Bringer
- Red Rising, Book 6
- De: Pierce Brown
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
So ready for this to be over
Revisado: 02-08-25
Marking this down because I am so ready for this series to be over already.
The blurb indicated that finally, after six long, long books it would be time for Darrow to return home to being a family man and father again instead of gallivanting across the Solar System from Mercury to the moons of the outer planets pursuing war and rebellion. I figured that the series being what it was, we would have more war, destruction, and general chaos up until almost the end, but that finally some sort of settlement would be reached. But no.
The tagline for this book seems to be a quote from the late Lorn al Arcos – “Death begets death begets death begets death…” People now should remember this before there aren’t any of us left to engage in these fantastic terraforming projects throughout the Solar System in the far distant future.
It’s not that Darrow hasn’t been trying, either. At every turning point, he remembers former friends, family, and allies who have died in the years-long struggle. And every time there are more of them. But also every time, somebody breaks their word or comes out of nowhere with a new fleet of ships or declares vengeance on somebody. The destruction just goes on.
I have just about had it with these Gold people and their arrogant attachment to their color hierarchies too. I struggle to believe the massive terraforming and technological projects on every planet, moon, and asteroid small enough not to crush humans with its gravity can have been completed in the mere several thousand years since our own time. But I have no trouble at all believing that the Golds, whose religion is that order can only be maintained if all the other ‘colors’ (not even races – these seem to have been bioengineered from the same human stock as the Golds to perform certain groups of jobs and then coerced into doing these jobs for countless generations) ‘know their places’ and are kept in them, by force if necessary, are direct descendants of the people currently inhabiting Earth.
I am particularly disappointed in Lysander. I had thought that, though he wasn’t any more perfect than Darrow, he at least was not quite the monster that some of his relatives were. It seems I may have been wrong.
And so, we are left with more loose ends that look as if they have the potential to wreak yet more havoc on what the Golds call ‘civilization.’ And also the potential to fuel yet another book in the series. The writing is great, as always, but I would like to hear about something besides endless death and destruction.
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The Ghost King
- Forgotten Realms: Transitions, Book 3
- De: R. A. Salvatore
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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When the Spellplague ravages Faerûn, Drizzt and his companions are caught in the chaos. Seeking out the help of the priest Cadderly—the hero of the recently reissued series The Cleric Quintet—Drizzt finds himself facing his most powerful and elusive foe, the twisted Crenshinibon, the demonic crystal shard he believed had been destroyed years ago.
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Horrible narator ruined an awesome trilogy
- De Tgh en 10-13-15
- The Ghost King
- Forgotten Realms: Transitions, Book 3
- De: R. A. Salvatore
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
So so sad
Revisado: 01-17-25
Things are really messed up in Faerun in The Ghost King. It’s difficult to tell just what’s cause and what’s effect in this case. It is described as the weave of magic unraveling.
The Illithit, Uroscrik (?) visits the cave of the Dragon Lich, Hephestus, who, in an earlier book was responsible for destroying the sentient shard, Crenshinibon. He somehow manages to get Hephestus, Crenshinibon, and the seven sorcerers who originally gave their power to Crenshinibon back together and merge with him into a three-part entity that calls itself the Ghost King. I’m not sure if this is the source of the unraveling of magic, but they nevertheless manage to cause a lot of damage to a lot of people throughout the book.
We meet many awesome fighters in this book, some of whom we already knew, while others I had not known about before. But, as usual in Drizzt’s adventures, most of the book is a long and bitter fight. And this time many of these awesome fighters, including some who have been with us for many books and are important to this world, are killed.
So sad.
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The Tower of Swallows
- De: Andrzej Sapkowski, David French - Translator
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 16 h y 25 m
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The world is at war and the prophesied savior is nowhere to be found. The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, races to find her in the fourth novel of Andrzej Sapkowski's groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games. The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies including Dandelion, Milva, Regis, and Cahir, to rescue her.
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- De Gwen en 10-03-19
- The Tower of Swallows
- De: Andrzej Sapkowski, David French - Translator
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
Good, but complicated
Revisado: 01-02-25
I couldn’t decide whether to give The Tower of Swallows four or five stars. It was good, but it was also long and complicated.
Some parts were very good. Especially Ciri’s. She is found somewhere near the beginning of this book by an old hermit, Vysogota, who lives in an impenetrable swamp. I think at one point he confesses to being a retired Witcher, which would make him the only one except for Geralt, as I believe the others were all killed in an earlier book. Anyway, he is also a healer, and he must be very good because she was almost dead when he found her, but he eventually manages to bring her back to life. During her long, painful recovery she tells him about what happened to her after the Rats (the gang of bandits she had been running with recently) were attacked and killed. It wasn’t pretty. There are about half a dozen bounty hunters, just hunters, and other people after her to either kill her or take her to the King of Nilfgaard. The one she has most recently had the most trouble with is a bounty hunter called Bonhart.
After she leaves Vysogota, Ciri travels to a lake where as many of these people pursuing her as are still alive catch up to her and think they have her trapped. But she has all her training with her now – as Witcher, as Sorceress, and as bandit and murderer. Her pursuers don’t stand a chance. And once they have been disposed of, she is standing before the Tower of Swallows.
There seems to be little about Geralt and the group that is accompanying him in this book. They spend a lot of time looking for an elusive band of Druids looking for a clue about where to find Ciri. When they finally find them, somebody predicts that Geralt will find Ciri, but that it will only be for a little while. I hope the truth doesn’t turn out to be that bad!
Somebody accuses Cahir of being a Nilfgaardian traitor, or spy. Once the arguing stops and rational discourse resumes, it turns out that he may be the person who saved Ciri during the initial fall of Cintra.
And somewhere, I’ve already forgotten how and where, they acquire a new member for their party, a little girl named Angoulême, who is from Cintra and who sounds (at least in the narrator’s rendition) exactly like Ciri, both in accent and attitude. I have the impression that she may look a lot like Ciri too, and I wonder if this will turn out to be useful somehow.
I seem to recall that they end up near the Tower of Swallows at the end as well, but not close enough to see Ciri.
There are several chapters devoted to the tangled and conflicting aims, political and otherwise, of the various villains pursuing Ciri. Mostly without serious magical powers that I remember, most of them nevertheless seem to be as dangerous as unkillable monsters. One or two of them manage to kill each other anyway, but not nearly enough.
And then there is Yennifer. She finds some clues in a distant island country (with a fascinating history; wish I could remember its name) that Ciri had ties to in her childhood before the fall of Cintra. Its King agrees to help her, but she is swallowed by a hole in the ocean (or something like that) on her way away from the country, and once again falls into the hands of the evil Phillipa Eilhart. Phillipa’s comment at the end, that she is being punished for interfering with the Sorceress Guild’s plan for using Ciri for the Guild’s political ends, instead of those of the various other kingdoms, is telling.
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Angel Fire East
- Word and Void, Book 3
- De: Terry Brooks
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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As a Knight of the Word, John Ross has struggled. The grim future he dreams each night will come true, unless he can stop them now, in the present. The birth of a gypsy morph, a rare and dangerous creature that could be an invaluable weapon in his fight against the Void, brings John Ross and Nest Freemark together again. Twice before, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the lives of Ross and Nest have intersected. Together, they have prevailed. But now they will face an ancient evil beyond anything they have ever encountered, a demon of ruthless intelligence and feral cunning.
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- De joewhitelaw1 en 02-05-25
- Angel Fire East
- Word and Void, Book 3
- De: Terry Brooks
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
Good story but kind of sad
Revisado: 01-01-25
It seems that even by the end of this book we haven’t completely reached the Apocalypse we know must be coming to transform the world pretty much as we know it into the world revealed in the Shannara novels. But this is certainly not because the demons haven’t been trying.
In the first book of this subseries, John Ross, Knight of the Word, had to save Nest Freemark from the clutches of her demon father. In the next book, Nest had to save John from a demon posing as a most altruistic girlfriend. Now they have to sort of save each other.
The Lady who assigns Knights of the Word to their tasks has given him one final task, and then she promises that he will be released from his service to the Word. He is to find and capture a creature called a Gypsy Morph, something that assembles itself from wild magic and frequently changes shape until it decides what it wants to be. They have the possibility of becoming great forces for good or great forces for evil. Their changes draw demons like flies, hoping to recruit them to work for the Void.
John Ross successfully captures the Morph and weathers its changes guarding it from the demons until it begins to change less frequently and settles for a while as a small boy. It then suddenly calls out Nest’s name three times, leading John to hope she can maybe figure out what it wants to finally become. So he and the Morph travel to Nest’s hometown of Hopewell.
The demons are already ganging up before they get there.
It’s just before Christmas, and Nest has plenty of other problems without John Ross and Gypsy Morphs and demons. Bennett Scott, the little girl Nest saved from being driven off a cliff by the disconcerting creatures she calls Feeders years ago, has just returned to town with her own little girl after what has obviously been a hard life. She asks if she can stay with Nest, and Nest, being a nice person, agrees, just before one of the demons tips her off that John Ross will be coming.
If you are a fan of villains, the demons in this book are the best part. The Void has been ramping up its game with the demons ever since the first book. If you thought Nest’s father was bad, it turns out he was small potatoes next to the team that shows up this time. There are four of them. Two are just monsters, there to inflict physical damage. But the other two are seriously scary.
Take the assistant demon, for example. She calls herself Penny Dreadful and is a masterful dope dealer. Bennett Scott’s life has left her with a drug habit she just can’t seem to kick, and though she has high hopes that returning to tiny Hopewell and a safe place with Nest will help her finally get rid of it, the first time she goes outside by herself, Penny gets her hooks into her, and Bennett is pretty much lost from then, and she knows it.
And then there’s the project’s Head Demon. He calls himself Findo Gask and claims to be over eight hundred years old. He threatens all kinds of mayhem (he does, after all, work for the Void), and keeps commanding Nest to “give me what I want.” Of course, Nest and John don’t know what he wants, although they have their suspicions.
Eventually, Gask and Penny kidnap the children – the Morph and Bennetts’s little girl. So they have what they want, but they don’t know it. Ross and Nest go to the rickety house where they are staying and with the help of the Sylvan, Pick, and his latest owl friend, try to save them.
The end is sort of sad, although not everything is a total loss. The Morph decides on his final form. And the dreadful Penny Dreadful has been destroyed with the house and the two monsters. But a lot has been lost in this adventure, and I’m sure Nest is glad this part of her life is over.
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Pile of Bones
- De: Michael J. Sullivan
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 1 h y 45 m
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When a storm reveals a mysterious cave behind a waterfall, the young mystic’s apprentice and her wolf investigate. Inside, she discovers a secret place containing a pile of human bones and the young girl makes what could be a fatal mistake. In this Legends of the First Empire prequel, we witness the events that helped shape the woman who would one day become Suri the Mystic, the first Rhune Artist, and a hero to a generation
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Good preview, unsatisfying story
- De Samuel Hudnet en 01-11-20
- Pile of Bones
- De: Michael J. Sullivan
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Good story drowned in bonus material
Revisado: 12-31-24
This short story is a prequel to Michael J. Sullivan’s series, Legends of the First Empire.
It’s a cute little story featuring a little girl named Suri and her companion wolf. They have an adventure exploring a cave that has been revealed behind a waterfall by a storm. After they leave the cave, the tale becomes potentially deadly.
I have not yet read any of the other stories in this series, so I don’t know who Suri grows up to be. But I have enjoyed the other stories I have read from this world.
My biggest complaint is that the story is so short that they had to include a long bonus introduction to the first full book in the series to make it worth the time to put out the story. And unfortunately, the bonus material swamps the little story.
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Santa 365
- De: Spencer Quinn
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
- Duración: 1 h y 9 m
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He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. This year, jolly old St. Nick knows Bernie has been sleeping on preparations for a special Christmas celebration with his son, Charlie. Enter Plumpy Napoleon, fresh from a short stint in prison, to save Bernie from the naughty list. Plumpy calls his latest business plan "Santa 365".
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Another tip-top episode!
- De Trudy Owens en 12-17-15
- Santa 365
- De: Spencer Quinn
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
A good party and a happy ending
Revisado: 12-31-24
I haven’t rated any books for their potential as Christmas books this year. That’s because Santa 365 is the closest to a Christmas book that I have read this year. I didn’t have very high hopes for it in that context, since Chet and Bernie books are primarily a mix of mystery and humor. But this one wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be. There is a pretty good Christmas party, and the ending is good.
Plumpy Napoleon is a con man that Bernie and Chet sent to prison a while back for running a Ponzi scheme from which he supposedly made over a million dollars. Just before Christmas, he reappears in their driveway announcing that he is out (due to overcrowding) and that he has seen the light and just wants to make others happy year-round. To that end, he offers to provide Bernie with a catered Christmas party, complete with decorated tree and gifts – for a small fee, of course. With the finances of the Little Detective Agency always in precarious shape, Bernie is a little dubious, and Chet is more than a little dubious. But Charlie is up for it, so Bernie pays the required fee, and they wait to see what happens.
I expected to hear the tale of the most pathetic excuse for a Christmas Party ever. The beginning is not too promising. A grumpy dwarf dressed as an Elf shows up and begins the party preparations. When asked where Plumpy is, the Elf supposes he’ll be along later. Then guests begin to arrive, starting with Bernie’s girlfriend, Suzie. Bernie’s mom has already inflicted herself on them for the holidays, and there are other people too. The presents are surprisingly pretty good, and one of the other guests has brought some wine. So the party works out better than I would have expected, despite the grumpy Elf, and Plumpy not bothering to put in an appearance.
But after everyone has left, Chet starts sniffing around and discovers where the catch is. The wall safe has been emptied. Chet and Bernie have to find out where Plumpy and the Elf have gone, why, and what needs to be done about it.
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Dragonheart
- Dragonriders of Pern, Book 20
- De: Todd McCaffrey
- Narrado por: Emily Durante
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
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When young Fiona impresses a queen dragon, she doesn't realize the perils and privileges that come with her new role. The challenges of becoming a Weyrwoman - co-leader of an entire dragon Weyr - can be overwhelming, and then, on top of it all, she faces the possibility of losing her dragon to the sickness that has already claimed so many others. Now Fiona is forced to confront the question: What is she willing to give up in order to truly be a queen rider?
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- De Jennifer en 11-13-08
- Dragonheart
- Dragonriders of Pern, Book 20
- De: Todd McCaffrey
- Narrado por: Emily Durante
This is Fiona's story
Revisado: 12-30-24
Dragonheart is one of a group of the Dragon Riders of Pern series featuring the multitalented harper/healer Kindan and his friends. Though still a young man, Kindan has already had multiple adventures in different parts of Pern and befriended several awesome people who, even while youngsters like himself, have gone on to become important and useful citizens of Pern. One of these is Fiona, the younger daughter of the Fort Holder, who he saved from plague and starvation during the people plague.
Dragonheart is Fiona’s story.
About ten years or so after the people plague has died out, things have begun to return to normal, or as near as it gets on Pern with the arrival of the next episode of Thread imminent. Fiona, as a Lord Holder’s daughter, has the opportunity to visit a hatching at Fort Weyr, the nearest Weyr to the Hold where she has grown up. She is only about thirteen or so, still practically a little kid, and is not among the official candidates to impress a dragon. But the newly hatched gold dragon comes up into the stands to find her, and now Fiona is a dragon rider.
Times are still tough on Pern. In addition to the approach of Thread and the lingering depleted population of the planet, a new plague seems to be starting up. This one affects the dragons. Long before Fiona feels like she knows what she is doing, a large group of dragons becomes ill and decides to take off for Between, the mysterious space through which the dragons fly to travel long distances in a hurry. Only, in this case, they aren’t coming back anywhere on Pern, and worse, they are taking their riders with them. Among these missing riders is Fort’s second Weyrwoman, who has been acting as Fiona’s mentor teaching her the things a Weyrwoman needs to know.
Things go from bad to worse. The first threadfall brings more injuries than expected. Between sick dragons and injured dragons and riders, Fort barely has enough dragons to fly Thread, and not enough to do a good job of eliminating it. There are plenty of young healthy dragons and riders from the same hatching as Fiona and her dragon, but they are barely old enough to fly and have no experience with anything.
So, the leadership of the Weyr decides on a risky plan to attempt to remedy the situation. The young dragons and their riders, along with a small number of more experienced people to train them, will attempt to “time it” – travel back in time to an abandoned Weyr where they can grow up and learn what they need to know.
But the most interesting part is that Fiona, as the only Weyrwoman who can go with them, is in charge of almost the whole thing.
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