Dragon Bones
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Dragon Bones
Narrated by:
Fiona Hardingham
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Narrated by:
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Fiona Hardingham
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Lisa McMann
About this listen
The Artiméans have suffered some devastating blows.
After years of peace, the recent daring adventure of twins Thisbe and Fifer Stowe have brought about dire consequences. Thisbe has been captured, Fifer is injured, and Sky is lost at sea. The twins’ older brother Alex, head mage of Artimé, is paralyzed with fear of losing anyone else he loves. Fifer must convince him to finally trust her to help in the battle ahead now that their true enemy has been revealed.
Meanwhile Thisbe is trapped underground in the catacombs, where the ancient dragon rulers are buried. Along with fellow prisoners, Thisbe’s job is to transport dragon bones from her crypt to the extracting room, where others extract the magical properties dormant in the bones. When it appears no one is coming back to rescue her, Thisbe must train in secret, trying to learn how to control her fiery magic and use it to escape. As her situation becomes more grave, she might even have to align herself with the ultimate evil.
Unfortunately it’s a risk she has to take.
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Thisbe and Fifer have none of the complexity of their older brothers, and have very little except their hair length to tell them apart - they’re just cardboard-cutouts that are miraculously able to do spells that everyone else, even their brothers, took months to learn. Seth might as well be a rock with a face painted on him (oh wait, the rock with a face on it was actually a more interesting character), and Dev is just thoroughly unlikeable. Lisa McMann has committed one of the ultimate sins, IMO, and forced her players out of character in order to facilitate the plot she wants to write. She is not letting the characters breathe and move on their own. And it seems all her previous characters are being thrown under the bus just to “create” a story for Thisbe and Fifer.
I was still listening in hopes of a turnaround, but the ending to this book has torn it. These are supposedly suitable for 8-10 year olds, but in my opinion killing off the lead of the previous series is not suitable for kids. At all. I might think differently in some circumstances, but this smacks of repetition because she’s run out of ideas.
“The Unwanteds” - the original seven books - were really quite exceptional, and should be left that way. If you’ve yet to read them, and want to, do yourself a favour and leave off the series at “The Island of Dragons”. That was the proper end for this story. This is just money-spinning for the sake of it, with nothing of worth left to say.
Should Never Have Been Written
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