Granted, urban fantasy and magical realism is popular in MG fantasy right now, with high and science fantasy taking a backseat. Few points stood out as something that would need to be edited or altered to appeal to modern readers. The covers on the versions of this series I read screamed 90’s fantasy (although otherwise accurate to the story) but the story itself wasn’t too dated. When this is summarized, it really sounds like a modern, politicized plot even though this was written in the early 1990s! But this merely exemplifies how timeless fantasy can be, and how it can often remain relevant longer than many other genres. Just when we might have thought that the stakes couldn’t get any higher, Shimmer and friends are now fighting a very unequal battle against the forces of total destruction, and the two groups who could stop this madness (humans and dragons) are too busy waging horrible destructive war on each other to actually keep their world alive. … from which he has joined forces with a ruthless human called the Butcher, Shimmer’s traitorous brother Pomfret, and a variety of other characters who may or may not understand that the Boneless King’s ultimate goal is the total destruction of theirs and every world. But probably the worst was when they let the Boneless King out of his long imprisonment… Dragon War by Laurence Yep. One has died, one was magically transformed into an inanimate object, another learned that her entire home and people have been destroyed, and the Monkey King has had his pride and several of his tail hairs wrecked. Princess Shimmer’s companions have faced many challenges during her quest to restore the inland sea and bring her people back to their home. NOTE: This review contains spoilers for previous volumes. Harper Trophy, HarperCollins, New York, 1992. Dragon War (Dragon Quartet #4) by Laurence Yep.
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