Dragonhaven
by Robin McKinley
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Author: Robin McKinleyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-09-20
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
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Book Review: An Amazing Work
Summary: 5 Stars
I practically read my eyes out with this book. I do love dragon stories of late, and now I know I am on the other side of a divide. Having finished Dragon Haven, I feel I may never read another dragon story that comes anywhere close to this. She so deftly did so many things at once in this novel, I feel I'll be spluttering trying to enumerate them all. First, I loved, loved, loved how she got in all the bits about bureaucracy and laws and money talking, and how the media influences lives and decisions that get made -- that was brilliant in itself, and managed to do it without cluttering the story. And then the human/animal bond, a subject I am very interested in to start with, was upped a notch or two by having DRAGONS be the animal. And here we go into more very unique trailblazing by this amazingly talented writer: these aren't mythical dragons in a land far away, with people living a quasi-medieval life who interact for good or ill, with the dragons. And they aren't military dragons using their strength to burn and blast things. They are another species, just like us, on this very same earth we inhabit, and they were formed in the evoluntionary framework that pressed and molded everything else. And here I hesitate because I literally do not know how to describe the sweep of her artistry in getting the blood and bone, wing, skin feel of dragons down so that you practically have tactile sensations of what they are, how they smell and what they feel like. This woman is amazing. I read some other reviews that don't care for the POV, and have to say I just cannot imagine who else could've told this story! It all happened to Jake, and it was his to tell. I personally love the way she managed to make it sound like someone telling you what all happended, not someone writing a novel about what all happened.
While I already knew and respected McKinley from two other books of hers,(Deerskin and The Door in the Hedge) I just wasn't prepared for her range -- she has a totally different voice in this than in the other two I've read, and she sustains it without falter.
I got this out from my local library and noted I can't renew it: three years after publication there is still a waiting list on this one, and now I know why. Don't miss it if you love dragons, and the people who love dragons.
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