No such thing as Dragons
by:
Philip Reeve (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781407102443 (1407102443)
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: Scholastic Children's Books
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleFor the most part, I enjoyed this book. I was originally drawn in by the cover. Plus, I'm a huge fan of dragons. The beginning of the novel is very good. I really enjoyed all of the descriptive language. The premise of a fake dragon hunter is interesti...
I liked the various questions about identity and belief that it brought up. And on consideration, I decided that a certain spoilery bit at the end didn’t, in fact, bother me. But I never really loved it either. [Sept. 2011]
I liked this more than the book about Arthur, but less than the Larklight series. It's a bit too grim to be funny, and a bit too outrageous not to be.
Reeve seems to want to tell kids not to trust people; all the important adults in this story are deceitful or irresponsible, though not necessarily without some redeeming qualities. The children have to look out for themselves, which is as it should be in a children's book, of course.Parts of the bo...
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