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Title Porteur de masques
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Jacques Lamontagne
Publisher Les Editions Intouchables - 2003
First Printing Les Editions Intouchables - 2003
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Title La Clé de Braha
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Jacques Lamontagne
Publisher Les Editions Intouchables - 2003
First Printing Les Editions Intouchables - 2003
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Title Le Crépuscule des dieux
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Julie Ménard
Publisher Éditions AdA - 2020
First Printing Les Editions Intouchables - 2003
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Title La Malédiction de Freyja
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Pierre Ouellette
Publisher Éditions AdA - 2020
First Printing Les Editions Intouchables - 2003
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Title La Tour d'El-Bab
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Pierre Ouellette
Publisher Éditions AdA - 2020
First Printing Les Editions Intouchables - 2004
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Title La Colère d'Enki
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Jacques Lamontagne
Publisher Les Editions Intouchables - 2004
First Printing Les Editions Intouchables - 2004
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Title Voyage aux Enfers
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Jacques Lamontagne
Publisher Les Editions Intouchables - 2004
First Printing Les Editions Intouchables - 2004
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Title Al-Qatrum, les territoires de l'ombre
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Jacques Lamontagne
Publisher Les Editions Intouchables - 2004
First Printing Les Editions Intouchables - 2004
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Title La Cité de Pégase
Author Bryan Perro
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Publisher Éditions AdA - 2021
First Printing Les Editions Intouchables - 2005
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Title La Toison d'Or
Author Bryan Perro
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Publisher Éditions AdA - 2021
First Printing Les Editions Intouchables - 2005
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Title La Grande Croisade
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Jacques Lamontagne
Publisher Les Intouchables - 2005
First Printing Les Intouchables - 2005
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Title Le Masque de l'Éther
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Jacques Lamontagne
Publisher Les Intouchables - 2006
First Printing Les Intouchables - 2006
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Title La Fin des Dieux
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Jacques Lamontagne
Publisher Les Intouchables - 2006
First Printing Les Intouchables - 2006
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Title Le guide du porteur de masques
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Nicolas Journoud
Publisher Les Intouchables - 2008
First Printing Les Intouchables - 2008
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Title Le sanctuaire des braves I
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Etienne Milette
Publisher Perro Éditeur - 2011
First Printing Perro Éditeur - 2011
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Title Le sanctuaire des braves II
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Etienne Milette
Publisher Perro Éditeur - 2012
First Printing Perro Éditeur - 2012
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Title Le sanctuaire des braves III
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Etienne Milette
Publisher Perro Éditeur - 2012
First Printing Perro Éditeur - 2012
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Title Amos Daragon, porteur de masques (Manga)
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Zoran Vanjaka
Publisher Les Intouchables - 2005
First Printing Les Intouchables - 2005
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Title Amos Daragon, la cle de Braha (Manga)
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Nicolas Journoud
Publisher Les Intouchables - 2006
First Printing Les Intouchables - 2006
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Title Amos Daragon, le crepuscule des dieux (Manga)
Author Bryan Perro
Cover Art Nicolas Journoud
Publisher Les Intouchables - 2007
First Printing Les Intouchables - 2007
Category Middle Grade
Warnings None
Main Characters Amos Daragon, Béorf, Médousa, Lolya, Maelstrom
Main Elements Wizards, dragons, demons, gods, faeries, shapeshifters, and more
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Click to read the summaryLa malédiction de Freyja

Click to read the summaryLa Tour d'El-Bab

Click to read the summaryLa Colère d'Enki

Click to read the summaryVoyage aux Enfers

Click to read the summaryAl-Qatrum, les territoires de l'ombre

Click to read the summaryLa Cité de Pégase

Click to read the summaryLa toison d'or

Click to read the summaryLa Grande Croisade

Click to read the summaryLe Masque de l'Éther

Click to read the summaryLa fin des dieux

Click to read the summaryLe guide due porteur de masques

Click to read the summaryLe sanctuaire des braves I

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Click to read the summaryLe sanctuaire des braves III

Click to read the summaryAmos Daragon, porteur de masques (manga)

Click to read the summaryAmos Daragon, la cle de Braha (manga)

Click to read the summaryAmos Daragon, le crepuscule des dieux (manga)




Years ago I was at a museum exhibit in Quebec City about dragons. It's not often you get to view an exhibit on this topic! But among the artifacts was a mention of a Quebec book series called Amos Daragon. I filed it away in the back of my head to one day check it out, after all I can read French but rarely do, this was an opportunity to do so.

Years passed when a free copy of book 10, La grande croisade, fell into my hands. Normally I would never start so near the end of a series, but figured I'd give it a try just to see if I would even like it, accepting the risks of being completely lost. For what it was worth, I was able to get into the book no problem at all, there might have been nine books before this one, but whenever something was referenced it was done in such a way I could catch up very quick...in fact I oddly don't feel a real need to read the others, that it was perfectly fine to start where I did. The author clearly did well! I immediately learned of the main characters and the villain. I also picked up on the fact that it pulled a lot from mythology, a bit like Rick Riordan's stuff, without the humour, but with all the action and adventure, and of course the fact the protagonists are all young, saving the world where the adults were failing to be remotely useful.

Now that I know this series is a lot of fun, though other than the name "Daragon" I wouldn't say it's particularly a dragon series, yes one of the characters is a dragon but he's quite secondary, but I never would have picked it up if it weren't for that museum exhibit!

December 2023

I decided to tackle the rest of the series this year, and my description I wrote two years ago pretty holds true for all the books. Now I didn't manage to get through everything, I caught up to book 10 but then ran out of time to finish the last two. About the only thing I'd add to what I wrote before is that sometimes it can be incredibly dark. There's one book where Amos is sent to Hell, and he literally died in a few really horrific ways on several occassions that was just disturbing to envision. They even have him kill his romantic interest in one book (is this a spoiler when the book itself has an oracle that predicts this very thing?).

Look forward to winter being over so I can start my long walks to the library again to finish off the last few books next year.

May 2024

Wrapped up the last two books. But on the whole, if you enjoy Rick Riordan's stuff, and you can read French, this is a really fun series with lots of mythology, folklore and legends all mixed up and smooshed into a single series, where you can battle Norse gods one day, British Redcaps another, and Summerian gods the next. And plenty of shapechanges, druids and other wizards as well. There might not have been all that much related to dragons, as that museum exhibit might have tricked me into believing, but it has a whole lot of pretty much everything else, and yes, a little bit of dragon too.

June 2024

Now on to the spinoff trilogy, Le Sanctuaire des Braves. For the first 100 pages of the first book I was a bit worried that not much was going to happen other than a reunion of the friends and talking about their adventures in the previous series. But when that decided to change, it changed fast. Perro is not afraid to do dire things to his characters (three of them had died already, one gets to die again). The third book also had a twist of being told by a new character who due his powers of vision, could see the events happening across the land. The ending though I found incredibly rushed like as is Perro realized he was running out of page count and just wrapped up the "end of the world" battle literally in 3 minutes (the time was mentioned), with no explanation how Amos managed to restore his body or find the other mask bearers, was a bit disappointed about the deus ex machina there.

I also discovered the first three books were turned into mangas. These were fun, first of all to revist the start of the series again and get a refresher as to how everything started (guess along the way the author forgot Beorf could control bees and other insects), and to see all the characters illustrated and in the flesh so to speak.




Posted: January 2022

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