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Book Review: Handbook for Dragon Slayers

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Handbook for Dragon Slayers by Merrie Haskell

Handbook for Dragon Slayers
by Merrie Haskell (Goodreads Author)

4 out of 5 stars

Princess Tilda thinks that her townspeople hate her because they believe her deformed foot is unlucky or cursed. She hobbles around the castle on crutches, and the maids make a sign against the evil eye behind her back. Tilda wishes she could run away from her princess duties and be free to write her own book as a scribe. When her cousin tries to steal the family lands, Tilda is rescued by two dragon slayers and they start tracking down a dragon to kill. The only problem is… these dragon slayers have never actually killed a dragon.

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Book Review: Prisoners of Thornbrill

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Prisoners of Thornbrill by Hannah Pennington

Prisoners of Thornbrill (The Tindoria Chronicles, #1)
by Hannah Pennington (Goodreads Author)

3.5 out of 5 stars
Melanie and her brother Jason discover a dragon egg while camping near the Grand Canyon. They hide the little dragon and name him Scalaed. The dragon grows up and leads Melanie and Jason into another world. There they are captured by an evil huntress and imprisoned in her dark fortress. The huntress is using dark magic to create an army of dragons, and she wants Scalaed for a special purpose.

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Book Review: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Wrath of the Triple Goddess

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Wrath of the Triple Goddess by Rick Riordan

Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #7)
by Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)

5 out of 5 stars

Percy needs three recommendation letters from three gods in order to get into college with Annabeth next year. So he teams up with Annabeth and Grover for a few last quests to earn those godly recommendation letters. Their second task is to pet-sit a polecat and hellhound for the scary triple goddess, Hecate. These pets are terrifying and wild, and Hecate’s home is a creepy mansion full of secrets and weird bathrooms. The pets do not look friendly, but Percy is determined to follow Hecate’s instructions and keep the pets alive and well for the entire week. All while trying to pass his regular school classes and graduate senior year.

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Book Review: Three Tasks for a Dragon

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Three Tasks for a Dragon by Eoin Colfer

Three Tasks for a Dragon
by Eoin Colfer, P.J. Lynch (Illustrator)

4.5 out of 5 stars

The Queen will banish Prince Lir from the kingdom unless he can complete a quest and rescue a maiden from the dragon. His stepbrother, Prince Delbayne, encourages him to try the quest, even though Lir is more of a scholar than a warrior. Lir travels to the Isle of Salt where he finds the dragon sickly and weak in a damp and moldy cavern. The dragon has lost his fire and his wing is broken, but he could still kill a knight with one slash of his claws. The maiden Cethlenn used to be a servant girl in Lir’s kingdom. Now she has to serve the dragon by treading on dark cherries in the wine press to make the dragon’s cherry wine. So the scholarly knight, the humble maiden, and the old dragon meet for the first time. These three unlikely allies will discover that dark magic is hiding where they least expect it, so they must join together if they want to be free.

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Book Review: Quest of the Dragon’s Princess

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Quest of the Dragon's Princess by Lee Watts Th.D.

Quest of the Dragon’s Princess
by Lee Watts Th.D.

5 out of 5 stars

Princess Samantha is searching for true love, and she seems to have found it with Prince David, until he humiliates her at the grand ball. The heartbroken princess decides to take matters into her own hands, and she sets off on a quest through a magic portal to find true love, expecting that somehow she will find her way back to Prince David. When Prince David discovers that she is gone, he sends his best knight, Sir Zachary, to bring her back. But he’s not the only one searching for the missing princess. The royal family has their own dragon, Hubert Firetongue the Incomparable. The dragon teams up with Sir Zachary and they follow Samantha through the magic portal. But when they arrive on the other side of the portal, she is nowhere to be seen. Unbeknownst to any of them, they are all being pursued by a murderous dark knight.

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Book Review: Od Magic

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Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip

Od Magic
by Patricia A. McKillip

3.5 out of 5 stars
Brenden has always felt more comfortable with plants and animals rather than people. He meets a sorceress named Od, who invites him to be the gardener at her school for wizards. He discovers that the way he can wordlessly communicate with plants and animals might be a type of magic. The magic school has very strict rules about what types of magic can be used, and they are bound by the laws of the king. But the wizards aren’t sure what to make of Brenden’s type of magic.

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Book Review: A Wizard Alone

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A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane

A Wizard Alone (Young Wizards, #6)
by Diane Duane (Goodreads Author)

5 out of 5 stars

Kit and Nita are trying to find out why an initiate has been on Ordeal for over three months. They know something must be wrong, but they are having a hard time finding out what is going on. Darryl McAllister is not an ordinary wizard, and the fact that his Ordeal has continued for such a lengthy time shows that the Lone Power must be up to something.

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Book Review: Cursed

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Cursed by Marissa Meyer

Cursed (Gilded, #2)
by Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)

3 out of 5 stars

In this second book of the Gilded duology, Serilda and Gild are both trapped in the Erlking’s castle. Serilda is forced into a sham marriage with the Erlking, so that he can claim her child as his own. Gild knows that if he could just remember his true name and find his body, they would be able to free themselves of their curse, but none of their plans against the Erlking succeed. He is too wily and too powerful. Serilda tries everything she can think of to find a weakness in the Erlking, some way to trick him or defeat him. But at every turn, he laughs in their faces and continues to terrorize humans, ghosts, and every magical creature in the realm.

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Book Review: Dragonology

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Dragonology by Ernest Drake

Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons (Ologies, #1)
by Ernest Drake, Dugald A. Steer, Wayne Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator),\ Helen Ward (Illustrator), Douglas Carrel (Illustrator)

5 out of 5 stars

Researching dragons is a rewarding field of work. We learn about the different types of dragons, how they breathe fire, how baby dragons are hatched, and various magic spells to subdue dragons. There are even “samples” of the membrane of a dragon wing, their shed skin, and dragondust. We learn about ancient legends of dragons from all over the world, their habitats and what they eat. There are diagrams of the dragons skeletal and muscle structure, as well as the venom reservoir and spark pouch that allows them to create flames. Dragons have their own language and writing system. They love riddles, so there is a special section of the book about finding the answers to ancient riddles.

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Book Review: The Tail of Emily Windsnap

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The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler

The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Emily Windsnap, #1)
by Liz Kessler, Sarah Gibb (Illustrator)

4 out of 5 stars

Emily has never been in the water. Her mother is afraid of the water, so she has kept Emily out of any swim classes or pool parties. But finally, Emily is allowed to go to a swim class at school! She is swimming well for the first few seconds, until her feet start to fuse together, cramping up. She gets out of the pool before anyone notices, but then decides to experiment on her own by going swimming in the ocean. She discovers that she can transform into a mermaid, and there is a whole community of mermaids living in secret far out to sea. But why is her mother so afraid of the water? And where is Emily’s father? He left them when Emily was a baby, but is there a deeper secret behind his leaving?

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