- Paperback: 297 pages
- Publisher: Voyager (21 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006483682
- ISBN-13: 978-0006483687
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,031,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It is Barbara Hambly's way to leave her imagined worlds aside, and go back when she has something new to say ... Dragonbane was always one of the very best of her books with its middle-aged witch and warrior-scholar, and a dragon taught that love which is not, normally, a thing of dragons. Hambly now revisits these characters a few years on--a new disaster strikes their world in the shape of dragon-riding mages. When John and Jenny's elder son becomes one of those mages, it is clear neither mages nor dragons can any longer call their souls safely their own. The emotional tone of what follows is surprisingly bleak, but punctuated by moments of comedy and charm; seeking an alliance with his former enemy, the dragon Morkeleb, John Aversin goes north among barren islands in an airship he has invented for the purpose. Nor is this the least likely alliance John has to form--this is a novel about exploring the limits in which the rules of the world Hambly created in the earlier book are constantly stretched and transgressed. It is sometimes assumed that this sort of heroic fantasy isalways and intrinsically cosy --Hambly proves otherwise. --Roz Kaveney
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Praise for Dragonsbane:
‘This is literary alchemy of the highest order, and it confirms Hambly’s place as one of the best new fantasists’
Locus
‘An enviable and intricate talent’
Janny Wurts
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thought Dragonsbane was excellent, with the perfect ending, and I really wish that I had left the story there. This book is very different in tone - much darker and violent - and I found reading it to be rather a depressing experience. In addition, I thought the plot was a bit haphazard in places and I wasn't really drawn into the story. I couldn't wait to finish the book and will definitely not be reading the sequel.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I might be slightly prejudiced FOR dragons, and I am definitely prejudiced in favor of anything Barbara Hambly wants to do with her main characters, Lord John and Jenny. I thought she might have gotten herself in too deep to get her protagonists OUT of trouble...but as usual, she handles the action with great skill and charm, and the 'universe' with beautiful imagery. One can't ask for better.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Did you like "Silence of the Lambs"? Did you think "Hannibal" made the franchise go down in quality like a lead zeppelin in altitude? Read "Forever War" and felt like toppling yourself for having bought "Forever Peace"? This book does the same for "Dragonsbane". I thought the first book was one of the most beautiful, haunting books I had ever read, and I can't help but feel that it has had its memory desecrated by this second coming. It may be a good book, but the first one was perfection, and so the end result is going to be disappointing no matter how you look at it! Don't buy it. Don't read it.
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Fantastic book
It's maybe a little less "insanely good" than Dragonsbane but if only every dragon related books were half as good I'd never stop reading.
Published on 3 Dec 2006 by Vahrokh Vain
A good read
I loved this book in fact I love the whole series, and most of the other books B.H. has written.
The characters are real people. Not super fit indestructable heroes. Read more
The characters are real people. Not super fit indestructable heroes. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2003 by "nashie_san"
Jenny's world gets darker
What I love about Barbara Hambly is the way she articulates such a keen understanding of human nature, in all its complexity. Read more
Published on 5 May 2000
Great sequel to Dragonsbane
This book will take you further in to the lives of the leading caracters of Dragonsbane. It also expands the world where they are living. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2000
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