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Aerie (Dragon Jousters #4)

Mercedes Lackey

Hardcover | Pages: 291 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 5454 Users | 121 Reviews

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Title	:	Aerie (Dragon Jousters #4)
Author	:	Mercedes Lackey
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 291 pages
Published	:	October 3rd 2006 by DAW Books
Categories	:	Fantasy. Dragons. Fiction

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Four word summary: Better than I expected!

So while my wife, Millie, was in labour with our daughter, I read four books (it took a while). It's been a bit trickier to find time to get those four books reviewed since then (we also have a hyper toddler).

I doubt many people will read Aerie without having first read the preceding three books in the trilogy. I jumped straight in here because Millie was still reading book three, Sanctuary, so she'd bought this with her, and I needed something/anything to keep me distracted after finishing Deepness in the Sky.

For a young-adult story about dragons 'n' that, my expectations weren't high.
But you know what? It's not bad at all!

Books 1 and 2 are very good (I'm reliably informed). Book 3 is pretty solid, but book 4 (this one) is the weakest of the series. If that's the case, I'm kind of tempted to read the whole series - except I'm not taking on any new series until I've cleared what I've got on my plate - because this was a pretty solid three.

This book follows a group of Jousters - dragon riders. I gathered enough from Aerie to fill in a lot of the backstory. Slave-boy finds a dragon egg, hatches it and raises it by hand. In doing so, he revolutionises the dragon-rearing and riding community - most dragons are caught fully grown and resist their human riders. He then plays his part in uniting two warring kingdoms against meddling evil mages, and wins the love of a high-born priestess who can talk to dragons (and became a Jouster). At some point there's also the founding of a new city and the discovery of an abandoned ancient system. Somewhere in that, Slave-boy also becomes Chief Jouster.

Which brings us to this story. What impressed me most, is the dragon-love, which shines brighter than the plot or the characters. The characters have all finished their main growth-arcs, and are settling into the day-to-day work of the plateau - good, but nothing special. The plot is a kind of post-trilogy tack-on that escalates too quickly, to try and out-do the previous climaxes, but doesn't have sufficient conflict points along the way to build enough momentum - instead it just ramps up abruptly. But the dragon-love is spot-on!

You know how young-teen girls can become enraptured with every aspect of horses? Riding, grooming, feeding, petting, mucking-out, training, etc, etc. The dragons are the horses, and taking them hunting, grooming, training, housing, etc - all these aspects of dragon-care seem to earn just as many lines as the adventures they go on together.

It's light. It's breezy. And I don't regret reading it - win!

After this I read: Hideous Creatures

Present Books As Aerie (Dragon Jousters #4)

Original Title:	Aerie
ISBN:	075640391X (ISBN13: 9780756403911)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Dragon Jousters #4

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Derivative and disappointing Borrowed Egyptian gods et al, only slightly disguised clingfire and pale copies of Pern dragons could not lift this book above the level of formulaic pot boiler.Lackey writes well and often plots well, but I could wish she knew her limits.

I hope Im not the only one who is annoyed by the non-existent love triangle. Also, the entirety of the long-lost mother subplot could be removed and the storytelling would be greatly improved for it. Overall, not a bad read, but not the best way to end a series either.

He of my favorite series would love to see another book about what happens after like if kiron and team has kids andh ow though kids grow up with dragons in peace.

Always pick Mercedes Lackey!Compelling characters,well developed plots and interesting social constructs. Also knows sentence structure acnd grammer- an increasing rarity!Trust this author.

Dreadful. It took over two hundred pages for a conflict to appear and once it had, it struck up out of nowhere. It had no connection to the previous books and made no sense. It was more like she tossed it in for the sake of a conflict, to render the fourth book significant when she could have ended it earlier. There was no build up for it and no hint of it in other books, either. In addition, the introduction of Peri felt forced, especially since she had no character development. She appeared

I pretty much went from loving Aket-ten (in books #1-3) to hating her in this book. She seems so mad for no apparent reason.The dragons have moved to Aerie. It's hard to tell how much time has passed between book #3 and this book, but apparently they now have at least 64 dragons.There's a little confusion in the story at some points -- if all of Kiron's wing now has a wing of their own, then Kiron doesn't really have a wing anymore because they're part of the new wings.Is Letis in this book just

For the end to an entire series, it was a disappointment, but I did enjoy the characters & the book, so it's still okay. *shrug* I've just seen the author write so much better novels than this one, by comparison, it's pretty dull. I was 80% through it, still waiting for the plotline to develop, and then all the action took place in the last 30 pages! I think I might have been better off just stopping at book #3 of 4 & making up my own ending!