Talking to Dragons Book Review

Title: Talking to Dragons.

Author: Patricia C. Wrede.

Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling, Sequel, Dragons, Humorous, Adventure.

Plot: In this conclusion to the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, we meet young Daystar. He is the down to earth, very polite son of Cimorene and Mendanbar. The catch is that he doesn't know who his parents are or anything about his family's history. He just knows he has to be very polite to dragons.

So when his mother hands him a magic sword after melting a wizard and kicks him out of the house, Daystar doesn't have a clue what's going on. He meets a gold lizard who talks in riddles, a firewitch girl who becomes his best friend, a young inquisitive dragon, Morwen and Telemain as he wanders through the forest on his odd adventure.

Likes/Dislikes: I waited quite a while to read this book, and sadly, it was not at all what I'd expected. I found Daystar to be a very boring character and rather too dumb for my tastes. I liked having all my "old friends" pop up here and there - namely, Morwen and her cats. And I really wish that the end had been told from Mendanbar or Cimorene's perspective; they had more at stake and had waited for that moment for so long. Daystar didn't react the way I'd hoped for when he learned who his parents were either. The writing was pretty good, though all the magic scenes with the sword were very confusing and boring.

Rating: PG- 12 and up, mainly for reading level and magical content {lots of magic}.

Date Report Written: July 10th, 2014.