Reviews for The Dragon's Apprentice (Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographics Series #5)

The average rating for The Dragon's Apprentice (Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographics Series #5) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-09-30 00:00:00 Mike Johnston OK, I will freely admit that, between the lengthy gap between when I read the previous book in this series and when I read this one and the increasing use of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff on which to base the plot, I kind of have no idea what's going on in this story anymore. It mostly lost me right around the explanation about how one of the characters once went way forward in time, and then overshot coming back so there were two of him, and the original one was prevented from jumping forward, and none of this caused a paradox because reasons. Which is unfortunate, because that happened fairly early on. And then there were a bunch of explanations about various kinds of time and their relations to each other, and zero points, and stuff not working right, and new villains, and so on and so forth. The rest of the story more or less made sense, as far as linear storytelling goes, but it seems that the resolution didn't really actually resolve anything? Ultimately, it kind of felt like the whole book's main purpose was to set up the next one, but I have so little understanding of the overall situation that I don't know if I'm likely to bother reading the next one. I don't know. Perhaps this could be another one I read to the nephews, and their young, spry little minds will be able to explain it all to me. I will come back to a point I made way back in Book 2, I think, though, which is about Owen's refreshingly accepting take on relationships and the sexual activity that occurs therein. I mentioned at that point how great it was that a female character was presented as having a sexual history and not judged for it, and here we have a pair of teenagers sneaking off to a hayloft at point to engage in unspecified activities ' if you feel more comfortable assuming that they just went up there to talk, neither I nor Owen will present any evidence to the contrary. In so many stories, this would lead to Terrible Consequences. Something would happen that they should have seen coming in order to prevent it, they would miss some key detail that would be useful later, hell, perhaps their own barn would just burn down. But here, they went off, did their thing, came back, and the only consequence is that we've basically now established them as a couple. And I think that's awesome, because I think that constantly presenting sex ' particularly unmarried, teen sex ' as inevitably leading to horrible consequences is stupid. So for that, James A Owen, I salute you.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-16 00:00:00 Nick Castruita I chose to read the Book 'The Dragons apprentice' which was written by James A. Owen, I decided to read this as I have a soft spot for adventurous mysteries. The book itself follows a group of so called 'caretakers' whose jobs are to protect the two fabrics of time and stop the shadows from bringing back a dark enemy… the 'Ecthroi' … the book itself is hard to follow at times as it will go back and forth from a lot of characters in different timezones (e.g.. 1891 to 1977) very quickly and can be confusing to recall certain events. It's a fast paced sci-fi/fantasy and brings back and turns famous authors (such as Shakespeare and Jules Verne) into beloved characters who have very personalized traits and abilities. Set in the magical realm of the Archipelago the caretakers struggle to remain confident as each new piece of evidence leads them away from the main target. As the Ecthroi grow to be more of a problem, one of the characters must seek out the help from a long lost dragon apprentice whose existence was unknown until it was brought to them in the night by a mysterious being. A favourite character of mine in this book was 'Rose' as she embodies the idea of 'young and adventurous' she was chosen to live side by side with many great long dead authors in a large mansion called 'Tamerlane House' of which has portraits of said dead authors hanging in the main rooms of the house enabling them to be present in the current world. One of my favourite quotes is "What kind of books are lost books?...If they're lost, who would know about them at all?" as it's humorous and takes the usual edge of the books' fast-paced and confusing story-line. 'The Dragon's Apprentice' made me think more about how authors and poets might of acted and what their writing would have sounded like, it also gives me more of an insight into what it was like back in the time when they were alive and the vocabulary they used to express themselves which was often shown through the book. The book is the 5th of its series however still hasn't lost its charm, if you're interested in a descriptive read that spans time (and probably space in the future) then I recommend reading the series and seeing for yourself if they're successful in their conquest to banish the evil that haunts their lives.