9.21.2005
Dragon & Slave
by Timothy Zahn, 300pgs, hardcover
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Overall Grade: B
This book was good in the fact that Zahn is moving the series along and not making the main characters continue on a fruitless quest like some authors would. It was very satisfying for the plot to move along at the end. However, the main characters got kind of annoying, perhaps just due to the transitional period in his changing ethics. The slavery situation didn't help either, however Zahn does a better job at writing it than most authors would. No romanticism there.
Gist - Jack & Draycos are trying once again to get information on who destroyed Draycos' ship and is teamed up with the enemies that his people are trying to escape. This time the plan is to get the data from the computers of slaveowners who might have supplied the slaves to those mercenaries, except that Jack has to sell himself into slavery in order to get to that information...
Amazon site
Overall Grade: B
This book was good in the fact that Zahn is moving the series along and not making the main characters continue on a fruitless quest like some authors would. It was very satisfying for the plot to move along at the end. However, the main characters got kind of annoying, perhaps just due to the transitional period in his changing ethics. The slavery situation didn't help either, however Zahn does a better job at writing it than most authors would. No romanticism there.
Gist - Jack & Draycos are trying once again to get information on who destroyed Draycos' ship and is teamed up with the enemies that his people are trying to escape. This time the plan is to get the data from the computers of slaveowners who might have supplied the slaves to those mercenaries, except that Jack has to sell himself into slavery in order to get to that information...
Labels: genre: fiction, genre: scifi, genre: YA, media: book, series: Dragonback
