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Dragon's Green
- Worldquake, Book 1
- Narrated by: Roger Allam
- Series: Worldquake, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Children's Audiobooks, Action & Adventure
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- M Alipah
- 02-07-18
A different childrens magic story
Interesting story, characters and world. Comparisons to Harry Potter are far off the mark though.
The writing is sometimes not the best and the character jumps between chapters can be jarring at times. The strength of the book though is in the world building and the story taking some unexpected turns.
It does get a bit dark and parts like girls "liking" a dragon can be a bit weird for a childrens book.
Narration is ok but i found the lack in variety in the voices a bit confusing.
The production is not great with the time between lines cut too short. readers have to catch our breath too!
21 people found this helpful
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- Cameron
- 31-10-17
Scarlett Thomas on top form
Best children's book we've listened to in ages. Other worlds, magic, nicely pictured, dark enough without being scary.
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- Lukeben
- 23-08-18
Riveting
Got this for my 10 & 8 year old boys. They are mad for it. They just cannot get enough of it. Had to immediately get the second book for them - I hope there is a third coming otherwise they will be devastated. Fascinating story and characters that all children can relate to. Highly recommended.
6 people found this helpful
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- IoBB
- 23-04-18
An okay story but poorer narrator
the narrator talks very slowly at times, as though he's reading and emphasising to very young children. It's a shame as it comes across as giving some characters very patronising voices. Also, Audible, the recordings need to be fixed, each announcement of the be t chapter starts the instant the last word was spoken to the extent it sounds like both words are spoken at the same time. It's jarring at the end of every chapter.
13 people found this helpful
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- Julia
- 15-03-18
Promising start
This story is very well done, I can't wait to listen to the second book. I loved the world building and some of the character detail (Effie's father and Gryffin Truelove in particular). Some of the other characters are a little bit under-developed, but I have great hopes that this will be remedied in the next installment. The main characters felt a older than 11. The narator was very good.
8 people found this helpful
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- Samima
- 29-05-19
An absolute delight.
I bought this book because Roger Allam was reading it and who doesn’t love Roger Allam ? But it is a wonderful book where children are so much better than their parents. It has friendship and loyalty, adventure and magic. Totally gripping.
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- Matt
- 13-09-17
Good story, good foundation for a series
A good story, which gets better as it goes and draws you in.
My only real gripe is that there is no gap between the end of the chapter and Roger telling you it's now chapter x. This is really annoying as it jars and stops you getting lost in excellent narration
8 people found this helpful
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- Sheila
- 11-09-17
Enjoyable story
If you could sum up Dragon's Green in three words, what would they be?
Interesting and enjoyable
What about Roger Allam’s performance did you like?
Good clear narrative. I enjoyed his reading of the book very much.
Any additional comments?
A very good story, well paced and very well written. I am looking forward to book 2.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-11-19
Dradong Green is great!
A very unique story, with lots of action and excitement. Very, very good, worth reading, Jacob aged 11
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- Lie Back & Listen
- 11-04-18
Hmm a few somewhat familiar scenarios…
This title was purchased due to it being on a couple of book lists recommended as books for “What To Read After... Harry Potter”.
In our house we are a family of huge Harry Potter fans (maybe not quite Potterheads but close enough) so we know what we like when it comes to ‘magical fantasy’. My grown up daughter has been compiling a new book list for 2018 so I suggested ‘Dragons Green’.
I think it is important here to note that this book is aimed at the mid-schooler age 9-12 (or so it states on various bio’s) however my daughter is over 20yrs old and so not really easy to shock– therefore as I was looking forward to listening to the book myself I was surprised and disappointed to hear her view on Dragons Green that “well it has quite a few unsavory bits, I think it would give some kids nightmares especially the opening pages & what the teacher says!”.
So I gave it a listen and she is right, it is fairly graphic but not necessarily in a good way and I would not recommend this for bedtime reading.
I then played the opening to my husband and also a few other bits and he said “some children would not sleep after that!”.
The story itself is a fairly good premise but does not particularly flow that well and most certainly Harry Potter this book is not, however if you are familiar with this genre of books/ children’s books it soon becomes apparent that several of the scenarios within the plot line are very, very similar to other books in the same vein specifically ‘The Secret Country’ (Secret Country Trilogy) by Jane Johnson.
There are other well-loved books that I recognise ‘very similar’ plot descriptions from including: ‘The Lives Of Christopher Chant’ (The Chrestomanci Series) by Diana Wynne Jones, ‘Stardust’ by Neil Gaiman and even ‘Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief’ (*the Lotus Casino scene) when it comes to the arcade part with the children and adults that ‘have been playing the games for many years and not moved…’.
All in all I am surprised that the publisher did not pick up on much of this and it just seems a mish-mash of ‘borrowed’ ideas.
Not worth a credit and not worth the price of a hardback copy or kindle.
If you want true fantastical worlds and characters read Diana Wynne Jones, Jane Johnson, Neil Gaiman or even better re-read Harry Potter in all its Hogworts glory again!
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