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The dragonmaster rides forth, 23 Oct 2004
This is the fourth book in the dragonmaster series. The first three detailed the Roche war in which Hal Kailas, the dragonmaster, became a hero and led his people to victory. Well now his back. In this one, the war has been over long enough for him to feel at loose ends. His days are empty, and his marriage ends in divorce when he visits his wife in the capital only to find her living with her lover.With his marriage now over, and most of his comrades dead in the war, Hal gathers a few dragon fliers and sets sail on a ship headed for adventure. It turns out that Hal's one time enemy, Ky Yasin, isn't dead after all but imprisoned. Hal hates the thought of such a dread dragon flier dying at the end of a rope and decides to rescue him. Hal eventually finds himself flying as a mercenary and working for his enemy, the Roche. This does not sit well with him, and after a disastrous attack upon the northern barbarians, he leads the remnants of his force home. Languishing upon his estates once more, Hal finally realises what he should have known before. It wasn't the fighting he missed about the war, it was the comradeship of his fellow fliers and the excitement of flying over unknown lands. With this realisation he knows what he has to do. He decides to lead a mission to discover the dragon's homeland, far to the west. He gathers all the old faces from the previous books to do this, and sets off to find adventure, and of course, peril. I liked this story overall, but it doesn't fit seamlessly into the series. The first half feels very odd, just there to add thickness to the book, but the second half is where the real story is. If you like the others in the set, you will have to buy this to learn about the dragons and why they fled the west. Reviewed by
Mark E. Cooper
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