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Title | Mistress of Dragons
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Author | Margaret Weis
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Cover Art | Stephen Youll
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Publisher | Tor - 2003
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First Printing | Tor - 2003
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Title | The Dragon's Son
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Author | Margaret Weis
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Cover Art | Stephen Youll
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Publisher | Tor - 2004
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First Printing | Tor - 2004
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Title | Master of Dragons
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Author | Margaret Weis
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Cover Art | Stephen Youll
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Publisher | Tor - 2005
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First Printing | Tor - 2005
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Category | Fantasy
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Draconas, Ven, Marcus
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Main Elements | Dragons
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 Mistress of Dragons
Mistress of Dragons is the first volume in an epic fantasy trilogy entitled The Dragonvarld. Here is a world where men and dragons coexist amid political intrigue and dark magic, where the uneasy balance of power between the two is on the verge of coming undone, threatening to unleash waves of destruction that will pit humans against humans as well as dragon against men for the domination of the world. Humanity's very survival is at risk...
The power to hold the chaos at bay, the terrible secret that maintains the balance, rests in the hands of a new and inexperienced Mistress of Dragons.
The Dragon's Son
In Mistress of Dragons we were introduced to a world where political ambition and avarice had led to a violation of the "hands-off" policy of the Parliament of Dragons concerning the affairs of men. That violation threatens more than policy and order...it threatens the peaceful existence of the human race.
Man's only hope and his greatest threat is the Dragon's Son. Twins born out of violence and raise apart...
Ven (short for Vengeance) lives in seclusion under the watchful eye of his deceased mother's Amazonian lover. He is a child whose appearance betrays his heritage - half man, half dragon.
Marcus is raised at court and given all of the protections his status entails. He appears to be completely human, yet his psychic link with the brother he has never known reveals the dragon magic that lies within him.
It is up to the dragon emissary who passes himself off as a man, Draconas, to protect them both, even as the internecine struggle threatens to destroy the Parliament of Dragons and bring an oppressive reign of fire down upon all mortal men.
Master of Dragons
In "Mistress of Dragons" we were introduced to a world where political deception, greed, and avarice have lead to a violation of the "hands off" policy of the Parliament of Dragons concerning the affairs of men.
In "The Dragon's Son" twins born out of violence and raised apart discover the secrets of their legacy and the plot to incite a war between dragons and men.
Now as the evidence of deceit, betrayal, and perdition is revealed to them, who will emerge as mankind's savior as the
"Master of Dragons"
A divided Parliament of Dragons where division and self preservation incite war and threaten the order of the ages.
A hidden stronghold where insidious and outlaw dragons hatch a race bent on the subjugation of all mankind.
The ancient city of Seth and its mystical order of warrior priestesses who have the power to fight back against the attacks of dragons.
The twins Marcus and Ven must unlock the secrets of these places and their own powers and overcome their own personal differences as they prepare to clash in a war that may pit brother against brother and dragon against dragon to determine dominion of the world and the survival of the fittest.
"Master of Dragons" is the epic conclusion of Margaret Weis's triumphant Dragonvarld trilogy, an epic of politics, war, and the delicate balance of the ways of dragons and men.
I didn't have particularly high expectations going into this trilogy, just expected a quick dragon-themed read and it's what I got so I wasn't disappointed. But at the same time I'll be donating my copies to charity since there wasn't anything particular about it that I felt I would ever read again.
We do have some interesting world building. We have the Parliment of Dragons who try to keep the peace between dragons and humans, but if you thought the U.N. was ineffectual, then don't get dragons involved, they like to think about things before acting, as since they live so long, they can think of years before making up their minds. In the meantime, it seems that the Parliament has been corrupted, that there is a spy amongst them reporting to a rogue dragon who has built a little empire of humans unaware of her presence and unknowingly serving her. Dragons also speak to each other with coloured thoughts.
We have a variety of somewhat interesting characters, from Amazonian warrior women to a plump Queen who is rather more maternal. Dragons of various personalities, young and old, humans with dragon magic (women have defensive powers only *eye roll* and males who only have offensive powers...at least most of the males can't handle it and go insane, hah). And finally, though I've been reading dragon books all this year, this is the first to have a literal dragon/human hybrid. Draconas was probably the most interesting character, being a dragon in human form, a "walker", to essentially keep an eye on the human world. Of course spending so much time around humans he grows a bit attached to them and has to balance protecting his own people, with protecting the humans. But I didn't really get that attached to anyone.
It had some interesting concepts, and a little mystery trying to figure out who the dragon spy in the Parliament may be, but in the end, I didn't find anything that really caught me as being particularly special. It wasn't particularly good nor particularly bad and as such I wouldn't particularly recommend anyone read them but I wouldn't tell them to avoid them either. If you want to read something written by Weiss I'd point you towards the Dragonlance Chronicles first.
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