January 17, 2011

Calling on Dragons


















Paperback

244 pages

Published March 1st 2003 by Magic Carpet Books (first published 1993)

ISBN: 0152046925 (ISBN13: 9780152046927)

Primary Language: English

Source: Borrowed from a friend


The Blurb (www.goodreads.com)


Those wicked wizards are back - and they've become very smart. (Sort of.) They intend to take over the Enchanted Forest once and for all… unless Cimorene finds a way to stop them. And some people think being Queen is easy.


The story opens with Morwen being tormented by a man that insists that as witch, she needs to conform to the traditional witchy stereotypes for the health and well-being of everyone. Morwen is not a traditional witch. She’s young, has red hair, wears stylish glasses, walks without a stoop and doesn’t have a black cat. She instead, has 9 non-black cats, and they all have a lot to say regarding just about everything. And if dealing with that weren’t enough, a hungry six-foot tall rabbit named Killer appears in her garden, who promptly turns into a hungry six-foot tall donkey. And then he turns blue. Anything this inconvenient must be thanks to the wizards hanging around again.


Fourteen months has passed since the end of Searching for Dragons, and Cimorene and Mendanbar have settled happily into their married lives and are expecting a baby. But being who they are, they are excited to see Morwen and Telemain arrive with stories of rogue wizards and the chance to go on another adventure. Unfortunately, just when they think it will be an easy fix, they discover Mendenbar’s sword is missing, making adventuring difficult.


I enjoyed most of this story, with one exception. The adventuring and new friends they meet on the way were exactly as expected from reading the previous two books, and the twisted fairy tale humor was also prevalent (Rachel! Rachel! Send down your chair!). However, I was disappointed in the ending. It wasn’t that this story ended on a cliffhanger (cause it does), it was more that the discovery of who stole the sword and why just didn’t fit.


Overall, I still enjoyed to story though, and like the first two, I finished it in just a few hours. I highly recommend these books, and appreciate my friend giving me a chance to read them in the first place.

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