The Battle for Imperia

Dragon Games #3

by Maddy Mara

An adventure-packed series about three kids who travel into a magical, dragon-filled world! Play the game. Save the realm. Team Dragon is facing their most challenging adventure yet! Luca, Yazmine, and Zane have been dropped in the ancient dragon city of Dracopolis. They have only one more Thunder Egg to return before the prophecy can come true, and dragons can return to Imperia. The people of Dracopolis are counting on Team Dragon to win, but the evil ruler Dartsmith never plays fair. Luca, Yazmine, and Zane will need all the help they can get if they’re going to defeat him for good and finally bring peace to Imperia.

Genres: Childrens, Dragons

144 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2023

About the author

Maddy Mara is the pen name of Melbourne-based creative duo Hilary Rogers and Meredith Badger. Hilary and Meredith have been collaborating on children's books for nearly two decades. Hilary is an author and former publishing director; Meredith is the author of countless books for kids and young adults, and teaches English as a foreign language. Maddy Mara is the melding of their respective daughters' names.

Reviews

[Timothy Burbage · Rating 3 out of 5]

The finale in the series, and probably the best one. We jump straight in and don't really let up. The biggest pro in this is that it actually has a Games element to it. My son was super invested, especially when things weren't looking too good for the heroes. The Monster in this story wasn't as interesting, though it got less focus than in other books due to the games element.

[Red · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally! Someone breaks something! As a parent, I found it MORE difficult to suspend my disbelief over THAT detail than to be incredulous about world-jumping dragons 😅

My reader is an 8 y/o boy who likes dragons. He isn't interested in the Dragon Girls series so I'm especially happy that he got into this one. I also appreciate that there are more complicated words like "beady", "grasping", and "writhing" so my reader and I can work on figuring out meaning from context.

(Also, if I'm reading aloud, it counts towards my Goodreads total for the year 😅✌🏻)

[Natasha Roslosnik · Rating 4 out of 5]

My kids (7 and 9) gave it a 5 star rating and a 4 star rating.

We read it together - I would have given it 3 stars. Overall not a bad read for the family.

[Pamela Zeiger · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 6 year old daughter and I give this book 5 stars. It's adventures and exciting way to end the series. Sounds like they left an opening to add more stories in the future.