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Dragons are extinct in the wild, but the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park is home to about two hundred of the world’s remaining creatures. Until Jake discovers a dying dragon that has given birth—and one of the babies is still alive.
- Sales Rank: #74702 in Books
- Published on: 2008-09-30
- Released on: 2008-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x 1.20" w x 4.50" l, .37 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 352 pages
From School Library Journal
Grade 7 Up—A novel set in an alternate contemporary world. Viewing dragons as fire-breathing, non-sentient animals with gigantic appetites for livestock, humans have hunted them for centuries, and now they survive only in a few wilderness havens. Jake Mendoza has grown up at one such haven, the Smokehill National Park in the American West, and has inherited his scientist parents' commitment to the park's secret inhabitants. When he rescues an orphaned baby dragon, he sets in motion a cascade of events that may eventually save these top predators from extinction. Readers will find the book to be less about the joys of the human-dragon bond and more about the challenges of raising an infant and communicating in a vastly different language. As an exhausted Jake explains, he is the first human in history to find out that a marsupial baby dragon out of its mother's pouch still expects a round-the-clock source of food, warmth, and company for over a year. Also, their telepathic communication gives Jake and his fellow Smokehill residents debilitating head-aches, and no one on either side is ever entirely sure they've got the message right. Once readers get through Jake's overdone teenage diction in the first few chapters, they will be engaged by McKinley's well-drawn characters and want to root for the Smokehill community's fight to save the ultimate endangered species.—Beth Wright, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, VT
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Review
A sharply incisive, wildly intelligent dragon fantasy . . . Penetratingly insightful . . . Quietly magnificent. "Kirkus Reviews", starred review Readers will be engaged by McKinley s well-drawn characters and want to root for the Smokehill community s fight to save the ultimate endangered species. "School Library Journal"
?A sharply incisive, wildly intelligent dragon fantasy . . . Penetratingly insightful . . . Quietly magnificent.? ?"Kirkus Reviews", starred review ?Readers will be engaged by McKinley's well-drawn characters and want to root for the Smokehill community's fight to save the ultimate endangered species.? ?"School Library Journal"
"A sharply incisive, wildly intelligent dragon fantasy . . . Penetratingly insightful . . . Quietly magnificent." - "Kirkus Reviews", starred review "Readers will be engaged by McKinley's well-drawn characters and want to root for the Smokehill community's fight to save the ultimate endangered species." - "School Library Journal"
Review
“A sharply incisive, wildly intelligent dragon fantasy . . . Penetratingly insightful . . . Quietly magnificent.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Readers will be engaged by McKinley’s well-drawn characters and want to root for the Smokehill community’s fight to save the ultimate endangered species.” —School Library Journal
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53 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
"Dragonhaven" or "How I went crazy from teenage boy patois"
By Kylin N.
In my opinion, Robin McKinley's greatest strength as a writer is her ability to make the mundane magical or portentous. Her voice is lyric and moving. She used it very successfully to elevate some of her more prosaic, slower-moving books from uninspired to elegant. Her voice is what saved both Rose Daughter and Spindle's End from mundanity, and what made Sunshine and her Damar books such classics.
That voice is missing from this book.
Ms. McKinley, for the first time in her career (as far as I can see), decided to write from the perspective of a teenaged boy. I believe she really struggled to capture the rhythm and honesty of her main character. She adopted a rushed, breathless teenage boy patois scattered with adjectives like "freaking" and "cheezing" that she successfully maintains throughout the ENTIRE book.
Unfortunately.
Her story, although slow in parts, was beautiful and well-drawn. (That's why I gave the book three stars.) However, my pleasure in the story was corrupted by my hatred of her language. It distracted terribly.
Although I am a devoted McKinley fan, I probably would not have purchased this book if I'd known what I was in for.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Pretty OK
By Alrian
I'm skipping the plot summary, as other reviews have already done it quite adequately. I'm going to discuss the writing style, the source of a lot of the negativity in other reviews.
McKinley seems to require a bit of cultural distance from her subjects. When she was living in the States, her books tended to have a European feel to them: either the British colonial mood of the Damar series or the fairytale settings of books like Spindle's End or Deerskin. Her move to the UK resulted in the American voices of Sunshine and Dragonhaven.
The voices of the narrators in Sunshine and Dragonhaven are very similar: intelligent, observant, sarcastic, and introspective to the point of being self absorbed. These traits worked pretty well as the foundation of Rae's character. They work less well as the basis of a teenaged male character. Adolescent boys are wired differently than adolescent girls: less interested in extended bouts of navel gazing, less prone to dramatics, and generally more simple and direct creatures. The voice of Jake is just a little off, a bit too ruminative and insightful for his years. There's also the occasional bit of out of place British slang.
That being said, I didn't find it unreadable. I think the book compares pretty favorably to a lot of other fantasy, especially that written in earlier decades. Our standards have risen. The world of Dragonhaven is as intricately developed as any of McKinley's others. Even as one of her lesser works, it's still far stronger than a lot of other authors' best. Save it for a light summer read and enjoy.
78 of 81 people found the following review helpful.
the ordinary becomes extraordinary; or does the extraordinary become ordinary?
By Erin Satie
About a page and a half into Dragonhaven, I put the book down and thought to myself, "She can't really keep up this annoying first person narration the whole book, can she?" When I think of Robin McKinley, I think of measured, deeply beautiful, polished prose - with a kind of intense, crystalline quality that has always lent itself well to the fairy-tale aspect of her stories. But Dragonhaven is written in the slangy, talky patter of its contemporary teenage narrator, Jake Mendoza. And she really does keep it up the whole way through.
I did eventually grow to like it (McKinley is a wonderful writer, after all, even if this isn't her usual style), but the depth and beauty of the story seems to peek through the clutter of language, rather than channel directly to the reader through the written word. Jake narrates like somebody who is talking a mile a minute and can't stop to catch his breath, let alone go back through to edit and clarify.
The story falls into the popular urban fantasy genre - a recognizable world of today that is subtly skewed by the addition of some fantastical element, in this case the existence of dragons. Jake lives on the only dragon preserve in America, at an institute in the park dedicated to the study of dragons. One day, seemingly by chance, he finds a dragon dying in the woods - a mother dragon killed by a poacher just as she was giving birth. All but one of her baby dragons are dead, as is the man who killed her. Jake, still trying to cope with the loss of his own mother, looks into the dragon's eye as she is dying and is so moved by what he sees there that he decides to do what he can to save the last of the dragon's litter.
The rest of the book is about raising a baby dragon. It's about the bureaucratic mess caused at the park by the death of the poacher, and the practical and philosophical consequences of Jake's determination to save the baby dragon. It's the kind of story that would be impossibly dull if it weren't so magical, and in this case the breathless pace of the narration counterbalances the steady, grim menace of the government and the long, slow struggle to keep the baby dragon alive. It always feels like a lot is happening, like events are just galloping by, even though there's no real action to speak of.
Things definitely get strange when it comes time for the baby dragon to meet her own kind, but that part of the story is too much fun to spoil.
I really enjoyed Dragonhaven, but it didn't move me the way that some of McKinley's other books have (The Blue Sword, Beauty, Sunshine). I'd give it three and a half stars if I could, and I'm rounding up out of a sense of loyalty.
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