Another haunting tale I couldn't reccommend highly enough.

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	• Dragon Avenger (Age of Fire, Book 2) E.E. Knight Roc Trade, 2006 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Another haunting tale I couldn't reccommend highly enough.

The last of a dying breed, this green dragonella must overcome her grief and terror to find others of her kind. Wistala's thirst for revenge touched a chord in my heart. I was thoroughly swallowed by her tale, just as I was by her brother's in the first book.

I grew to care deeply for other creatures in Wistella's life and some made me laugh out loud. The cat with a mind of her own, the wise and sarcastic buzzards and so many more.

If you dig a book full of passion, humor, tragedy and triumph....you'll dig this book.

Great series for the whole family

We love this series! My teenage son bought me the first book when it came out, and the whole family took turns reading it. This second book was just as good, and we're now reading the third.

E.E. Knight is a very talented writer. He has managed not only to create a believable world, characters we empathize with, and a story that keeps you turning pages, but he manages to do it from three different perspectives! Each of the three books starts with the same scene: The hatching of a clutch of dragons in a cave, watched over by their mother. The first book views the hatching from the eyes of Auron, the gray hatchling, as he fights for supremacy amongst his brothers. This second book, though starting with the same scene, is told from the perpective of one of the female hatchlings, Wistala. The third comes from an entirely different point of view, that of the outcast copper hatchling.

From that scene, each book diverges, following its character through the trials and tribulations of their growth. The imagery is potent, and at times brutal, as one would imagine it would be when following such a creature's life. The world of the dragons slowly unfolds through the three books and leaves us begging for more. We only hope there will be more books to come in this series from this talented author.

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Just as good as the first

I put off studying for my finals just to finish this book. As a 21 year old female, I'm utterly amazed that I even got started on this series, as it doesn't look like anything that I'd ever picked up before. Other reviews already gave you a bit of a summary, so the only advice that I can give is just to go ahead and try it out, you won't be displeased!

Young Adult Dragon Fiction

Dragon Avenger is the story of Wistala, the sister to Auron from Dragon Champion. It's the story of how she gets revenge upon the Dwarves who killed her parents.

Wistala's tale starts in the eggshell, and covers events shown in the first book from a fresh perspective. Wistala finds her wounded father, cavorts with beasts for a few chapters (a la Tailchaser's Song), and then is saved and adopted by an older male elf.

She grows, helps out her adoptive father, and at his urging, joins a traveling circus to safely see the larger world. Around this point only a few chapters are left in the book, and the story of Wistala's vengeance is wrapped up in a neat little package, thanks to stereotypical power-mad kings.

I found the humanoid characters acted like typical fantasy archetypes, though the visual description of the troll (which acted like average stupid fantasy trolls do) was inspired.

Overall, not a challenging book for an adult reader. More like something I'd give to a twelve year old. If you want dragon tales for a lazy afternoon, you'll like it.

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The story of clever Wistala

Here we have the story of Wistala, the brood-sister to AuRon from the first in this series. Seeing the beginning of the story unfold from a different perspective, then branch off onto its own adventure was enlightening. This book is in Wistala's perspective, which is delightfully different than AuRon's perspective, due to the author's talented style. We see how she approaches her problems with cunning to avenge her family's loss.

I really enjoyed Wistala's perspective as a dragonelle (female dragoness if you will) as well as the humor in this book- a lighter approach than the other two in the series, but I think that works well for her personality.

I love the Age of Fire series- they are a look at dragons as I'd always hoped: dragons as their own entities, without making them big scaly mounts to 'dragonriders' or making them overly malevolent or benevolent- they just are. This is a no-frills realistic type of fantasy that is easy to believe in.

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From the national bestselling, award-winning author of Dragon Champion-second in the fantastic new Age of Fire series. Flung to freedom as their mother battles a group of slave-trading dwarves, young Wistala and her gray, scaleless brother, Auron, find themselves alone in the Upper World. And when Auron sacrifices himself so that she may live, Wistala must overcome her grief and fear to find others of her kind-and bring her wrath to bear on those who would destroy them.

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