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Dragonfox
They circled above his house, searching for him. They found him by the river, where the dragonfox had disappeared. They hemmed him in, glaring at him through the black slits in their monstrous yellow eyes. … He was at the mercy of creatures who knew no mercy …
In the sequel to With My Knife, Colyn has a terrifying vision of the dragons of the otherworld, Klarin, reasserting their power. He feels compelled to go back and stop them, as it seems that they may have discovered a way to enter the [our] world...
In the sequel to With My Knife, Colyn has a terrifying vision of the dragons of the otherworld, Klarin, reasserting their power. He feels compelled to go back and stop them, as it seems that they may have discovered a way to enter the [our] world...
126 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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November 17, 2015
Dragonfox is a sequel to With My Knife.
Considerably before Philip Pullman's The Subtle Knife with which it has strong resonances, With My Knife is the story of a boy who finds a knife in the potato patch which doesn’t just peel potatoes like a dream, it cuts through to a foggy intermediate world from which it is possible to reach a dragonrealm.
Dragonfox continues the story begun in With My Knife – the dragons are intent on forging a new knife to cut between dimensions and to retrieve the one they’ve lost to the boy who has become the Rykone. Colyn just can’t help himself. The dragonknife is an irresistible plaything – and peeling potatoes and turning them to stone just doesn’t quite cut it in the excitement stakes.
Despite the loss of his mother, Colyn Larkin wants to return and see the dragon world once more. He has become the Rykone - the Knife Lord - who wields the dragonblad forged long ago in another world. He reists the urge to return to Klarin until he dreams that the dragons are preparing to create a new knife. With it they will be able to cut their way into this world and join with the spirit dragons already here.
Once in Klarin Colyn finds a friend, a feisty girl who is as mad about the knife as he is and who desperately wants one of her own.
It's one of those books with a throwaway line about naming, the sort of thing a name ferret in me appreciates so much:
‘In the beginning, after He made the birds and the animals, El Elyon asked the first man to name them. Those are the first names, the true names. A first name has power to summon the creature it names. I used the osprey’s first name… I shouldn’t have done it. I knew they would come to their name and I knew they would see and attack the dragon when they came. I called them to their deaths…’
Considerably before Philip Pullman's The Subtle Knife with which it has strong resonances, With My Knife is the story of a boy who finds a knife in the potato patch which doesn’t just peel potatoes like a dream, it cuts through to a foggy intermediate world from which it is possible to reach a dragonrealm.
Dragonfox continues the story begun in With My Knife – the dragons are intent on forging a new knife to cut between dimensions and to retrieve the one they’ve lost to the boy who has become the Rykone. Colyn just can’t help himself. The dragonknife is an irresistible plaything – and peeling potatoes and turning them to stone just doesn’t quite cut it in the excitement stakes.
Despite the loss of his mother, Colyn Larkin wants to return and see the dragon world once more. He has become the Rykone - the Knife Lord - who wields the dragonblad forged long ago in another world. He reists the urge to return to Klarin until he dreams that the dragons are preparing to create a new knife. With it they will be able to cut their way into this world and join with the spirit dragons already here.
Once in Klarin Colyn finds a friend, a feisty girl who is as mad about the knife as he is and who desperately wants one of her own.
It's one of those books with a throwaway line about naming, the sort of thing a name ferret in me appreciates so much:
‘In the beginning, after He made the birds and the animals, El Elyon asked the first man to name them. Those are the first names, the true names. A first name has power to summon the creature it names. I used the osprey’s first name… I shouldn’t have done it. I knew they would come to their name and I knew they would see and attack the dragon when they came. I called them to their deaths…’
December 30, 2021
Still pretty good not as good as the first.
December 3, 2015
Not as great as "With My Knife". Still a pretty decent sequel though. More action. More time spent in Klarin. A strong female (albeit annoying, but she's like 10 so I can forgive her) character. Interesting plot and prophecy.
I can understand why I liked these books as a kid
I can understand why I liked these books as a kid
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