With her widely acclaimed, best-selling fantasy trilogy, DRAGON PRINCE, Melanie Rawn opened an enchanted gateway to a spellbinding universe of Sunrunner's magic and sorcerous evil, of a ruler fighting to bring peace to a world of warring kingdoms, and of the dragons- deadly dangerous yet holding the secret to wealth beyond imagining.
Now, in STRONGHOLD, the first novel of Melanie's new DRAGON STAR trilogy, there is a devastating new challenge to the power of both the High Prince Rohan and Andry, Lord of the Sunrunners at Goddess Keep, as a mysterious and seemingly unstoppable invasion force swarms across their lands. For Andry it signals the start of a nightmare made real, the horrifying fulfillment of his of his long ago visions of his homeland in flames, and he will draw upon even the forbidden sorcerer's magic in an attempt to the enemy which is bent on the extermination of all Sunrunners.
Rohan and his son Pol will also fight the enemy with every weapon at their command- from their valiant warriors, to conjurations with sun, moons, and stars, to the terrifying presence of the dragons, to the unforgiving wrath of the desert itself. Yet soon they begin to fear that this invasion may prove not only the end of their dream of an unbreakable peace but the beginning of the end of their entire world....
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Apparently, this is actually the fourth book in the series, good thing I haven't read very far! From what I've seen however, there's far too many characters. It seems like Melanie Rawn gives everyone a name, even if they'll only be mentioned a few times in the whole book. I guess it helps make the characters feel more personal to the reader, but I think it's over-done. Has anyone else read a book like that?
ReplyDeleteI have read a book like that, and it could get very confusing. They would mentioned the characters name, and not bring them up for several chapters. Out of no where, they will be mentioned again- and it's as if the author expects you to remember every character, even if I just met them once. This book was The Valcourt Heiress, so I doubt you would enjoy it. However, it seems the authors have a similar approach while presenting characters to the story.
DeleteHi, TJ--- I just tried to read Tolstoy's War and Peace (my dirty little secret as an English major/teacher is that I always managed to avoid it!), and that was one of the aspects I disliked about it. Every character also had several names, as Russians do- their "real" names, plus pet names and patronymics (every Russian has a version of his/her father's name, which ends in "a" for the women, such as Vasilievna for Vasili). Have you pursued this book, or did you ditch it?
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