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The DragonSpawn Cycle #4
Danse d'été
Attirée dans un guet-apens, Donavah — celle qui possède le puissant don de maejic — comprend qu’elle n’est qu’un pion sur l’échiquier d’un mage intrigant.
Le royaume d’Alloway connaîtra sous peu son destin — des traîtres, des soldats de la Garde et un roi corrompu travaillent tous à l’anéantissement des forces du Bien.
Le retour des dragons rouges sonnera-t-il l’avènement d’un nouveau règne ? Le pays sera-t-il perdu aux mains des conspirateurs ?
Lorsque le mal se tapit dans les endroits les plus insoupçonnés, à qui peut-on faire confiance ? Parfois, la maejic prépare la voie. Parfois, l’amour signe notre perte.
Le royaume d’Alloway connaîtra sous peu son destin — des traîtres, des soldats de la Garde et un roi corrompu travaillent tous à l’anéantissement des forces du Bien.
Le retour des dragons rouges sonnera-t-il l’avènement d’un nouveau règne ? Le pays sera-t-il perdu aux mains des conspirateurs ?
Lorsque le mal se tapit dans les endroits les plus insoupçonnés, à qui peut-on faire confiance ? Parfois, la maejic prépare la voie. Parfois, l’amour signe notre perte.
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 2007
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December 7, 2014
Donavah has hardly returned to her own world when she's kidnapped again, this time by Anazian. Unable to use maejic, she suffers through days of abuse, both physical and mental. With her family's welfare being used against her, she doesn't resist her captors. Freedom looks increasingly unlikely.
I'm getting tired of Gerrison rehashing the same plot over and over again. Yet again, Donavah is captured, deprived of her maejic, and abused. Despite the fact none of them actually rape her, the threat is always present. Donavah and everyone around her calls her strong for resisting---but all she does is follow everything they want her to do, while hating herself. I wish she had the courage to stand up for herself.
I'm also getting tired how Donavah finds a new boyfriend in every man who treats her kindly. Grey was set up to be her protector, but suddenly Garrison changed her mind, and Grey is eliminated from the story with only a few by-lines. Donavah doesn't even see him after she's free.
I don't mind what happened to Traz, particularly---the twist at the end was a nice touch. But I truly think these would be better stories if Traz had been the one to tell them. He, at least, does something other than stay stuck in various prisons for the majority of the series. Or Breyard would do. Breyard stepping in to command the dragons is of necessity summarized here because Donavah doesn't see any of it, but it would have been very interesting to see what happened.
I finished the series for completion's sake, and I am almost sorry I did. Donavah pulls out another overpowered maejical coup for the end, the deaths of the major villains hardly gets any screen time, and people like Grey are left with unrealistic loose ends. Not worth a read, and certainly not a series I will re-read. I rate this book Not Recommended.
I'm getting tired of Gerrison rehashing the same plot over and over again. Yet again, Donavah is captured, deprived of her maejic, and abused. Despite the fact none of them actually rape her, the threat is always present. Donavah and everyone around her calls her strong for resisting---but all she does is follow everything they want her to do, while hating herself. I wish she had the courage to stand up for herself.
I'm also getting tired how Donavah finds a new boyfriend in every man who treats her kindly. Grey was set up to be her protector, but suddenly Garrison changed her mind, and Grey is eliminated from the story with only a few by-lines. Donavah doesn't even see him after she's free.
I don't mind what happened to Traz, particularly---the twist at the end was a nice touch. But I truly think these would be better stories if Traz had been the one to tell them. He, at least, does something other than stay stuck in various prisons for the majority of the series. Or Breyard would do. Breyard stepping in to command the dragons is of necessity summarized here because Donavah doesn't see any of it, but it would have been very interesting to see what happened.
I finished the series for completion's sake, and I am almost sorry I did. Donavah pulls out another overpowered maejical coup for the end, the deaths of the major villains hardly gets any screen time, and people like Grey are left with unrealistic loose ends. Not worth a read, and certainly not a series I will re-read. I rate this book Not Recommended.
May 15, 2012
I enjoyed the first two books of this series but my expectations fell flat with the third and fourth. I could deal with our heroine being captured and tortured by a powerful male mage in the third book. (Not graphically - I don't do graphic.) But the same theme shows up in the final book, just a different mage and our heroine passively goes along with it - through most of the book. Then the third evil mage captures her and starts in with "torture." GEEZ! (Picture me reading quickly to get through it.) Disappointing.
June 10, 2011
tres tres tres tres long, les histoires de couples sont pourrites, bref il y a juste les dragons d'interessant.
August 11, 2011
An okay read, but I found the ending extremely disappointing. The worst of the series IMO.
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