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In The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Phoenix Joanne Bertin created a world
unlike our own, where Dragonlords soar in the skies above the many realms of the land.
The Dragonlords' magic is unique, giving them the ability to change from dragon to
human form; to communicate silently among themselves; and other abilities not known
to mortals.
For many millennia, the Dragonlords have been a blessing to the world, with their
great magic and awesome power. And though they live far longer than the humans who
they resemble when not in their draconic state, these fabled changelings are still loyal to
their human friends. Now in Bard's Oath, their magic is not the only power abroad in the world. And not all the magic is as benign as theirs.
Leet, a master bard of great ability and vaulting ambition, has his own magic, but of a much darker nature. Years ago, death claimed the woman he loved, setting him on a course to avenge her death, no matter the consequences. Now, mad with hatred and consumed by his thirst for revenge, Leet has set in motion a nefarious plot that ensnares the friend of a Dragonlord, using his bardic skills . . . and dark powers only he can summon, to accomplish his bitter task.
Raven, a young horse-breeder friend of the Dragonloard Linden Rathan, is ensnared by Leet and under the bard's spell, is one of the bard's unwitting catspaws. When accused of a heinous crime, Raven turns to Linden, and while Dragonlords normally do not meddle in human affairs, Linden comes to Raven's aid, loath to abandon him in his time of desperate need.
But Raven, and others victimized by Leet, are at the mercy of human justice. Can even a Dragonlord save them from a dire fate before it is too late?
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
- Sales Rank: #294973 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-11-27
- Released on: 2012-11-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
After more than a decade, Bertin returns to her Dragonlords series (Dragon and Phoenix) with a respectable if unexceptional throwback to the morally black-and-white heroic fantasy of the 1990s. In a world ruled by beneficent dragon-human shape-shifters, Master Bard Leet develops an elaborate revenge plan involving a blood-drinking harp with the power to musically enslave listeners. As Leet's plot crawls slowly along, Bard Raven Redhawkson is accused of a murder he has no memory of committing. Dragonlord Linden Rathan, certain his friend cannot possibly have committed such an atrocious act, must investigate quickly before Raven is executed. Readers will appreciate the unusual music-based plot and masterly world-building, but it never feels like anything much is at stake. (Dec.)
Review
Praise for Dragon and Phoenix:
“Bertin reaches new heights of dramatic adventure and political intrigue in the sequel to The Last Dragonlord.” —Booklist
“Ms. Bertin makes us eager to find out what happens next. A first-class fantasist indeed!”
—RT Book Reviews
"The author’s talent for depicting exotic and complex interpersonal relationships provides a solid anchor for this rousing fantasy adventure." —Library Journal
Praise for The Last Dragonlord:
“I enjoyed this very much indeed. I stayed up until 1:30 last night so I could finish it off. With a good book like this, I didn’t want to miss anything.”
—Anne McCaffrey, bestselling author of The Dragonriders of Pern
“The flow of action and many layers of intrigue will float readers toward her novel’s hard-fought conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly
"A first novel of great power and imagination." —Science Fiction Age
About the Author
JOANNE BERTIN is the author of The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Phoenix, the first two books in the Dragonlords series. Bard's Oath is the final novel of the trilogy. She lives in Connecticut with her family.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
A 300 page two-star book plus a 100 page five-star book
By Flash
I'm a big fan of "The Last Dragonlord". I re-read it before Bard's Oath, and I would still give it a plain five stars. "Dragon and Phoenix" is two books in one, one interesting book about Dragonlords and one incredibly boring book about some Chinese court intrigue. In re-reading it, I actually skipped the entire Chinese court intrigue plot, and it became a much better book for it.
In "Bard's Oath" the heroes are back in the five Kingdoms. The worst thing about "Dragon and Phoenix" is gone: the plot does not change perspective after almost every paragraph. The perspective changes about every chapter (with paragraph-wise exceptions used only rarely) which makes for a much better read. However, instead of having two or three plotlines, Joanne Bertin has decided to make a point of cramming as many plotlines into the book as possible. This is a serious problem, because every plotline moves at normal pace, which means that with these five or six plotlines, the introduction gets five or six times as long. For the first hundred and fifty pages the book follows three or four different groups of people how they move to a horse fair, while absolutely nothing of any interest happens. Then they are at the horse fair, and still absolutely nothing happens.
Anyway, if you have managed to crawl through 292 pages of endlessly boring travel to the horse fair and conversations at the horse fair, someone is murdered, and all of a sudden the books becomes a page turner, which unfortunately ends a hundred pages later. I can not stress the difference between the first three hundred and the last hundred pages enough.
This book had the potential to be really great, if
- the murder had happened on page 100 instead of page 300
- the author had not told us everything about the murderer, his motives, his way of doing it, simply everything, on the first 300 pages.
The how and why of the murder is interesting, and fits together nicely. It would have been much better if the book had been written like a whodunnit, with the Dragonlord finding out everything slowly, instead of telling the reader everything in 300 pages and then racing through the rest at an incredible pace.
There are some additional problems with the book, for example concerning the relationship between Linden and Maurynna. All the magic, that Bertin made such an effort in creating - especially in the first book - is gone. They act like a couple that has been married for thirty years and is OK with being together, but doesn't care much about each other. That they are soultwins is completely neglected (I think it is mentioned once or twice) in passing. So if you're looking for the romance, it is non-existing.
Then there is an additional plotline about Beast Healers and Wort Hunters, which came to Joanne Bertin's mind at some time during the ten years she wrote the book. Beast Healers and Wort Hunters did not exist in the previous books, and the plot of idea of Bard's Oath must have existed when Dragon and Phoenix was written, because Leet's visit to dragonskeep is central to its plot. I have no idea why the Beast Healers plot was added here, because it has absolutely nothing to do with the main plot (except for a completely coincidental meeting with Linden), and this side plot remains completely unresolved.
Unfortunately a 300 page two-star book plus a 100 page five-star book can not be more than three stars overall.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Not her best, but still good
By Courtney Buck
I am a huge, enduring fan of Joanne Bertin and her Dragonlord series. This is no secret. So to find out the long-awaited third book was finally out had me going into fangasms of joy. Her first book was perfection, her second book was riveting, so I had high hopes for this one.
It starts out slow. Very slow. Like, half the book slow. A thousand different perspectives that leave these loose ends that you're like, "okay, where the hell is this going?" which, granted, she does wrap up in the end. I just kind of wonder if it was all necessary. Mrs. Bertin has always loved political intrigue, but there was always some kind of dangerous adventure happening at the same time that made for a very rounded read. This one was almost all political intrigue, and it threw me off a bit. I kept asking myself, "when is the action gonna start happening? Who is the bad guy?" But it *was* interesting, so I kept reading. Still, some of the examples of Tirael's cruelty or him butting heads with various people or some of the miscellaneous scenes of everyone sitting down to eat or talking, could have probably been left on the editing room floor and the book would not have suffered for it. Tirael's an a-hole. We get it. Nobody has sympathy for him. Not sure I needed 100 pages to tell me that.
I'll be honest, I was a little disappointed at first that Raven was the main character during the first half of the book because of the trouble he gave my boy and girl Linden and Maurynna in the last book. But he did endear himself to me, and he even makes a statement about how he finally realized that he and Rynna were never meant to be together (Linden is the other half of *her soul* fer crissakes, that's not a random dalliance) and he's okay with that. I loved that we get to see some of our favorites (Linden, Maurynna, Shima, Otter, Kella and Rann, even Lleld!) and the new characters (Pod, Conor, Ari, Merilee, Karelinn and Eadain) had the same wonderful spark of life that Mrs. Bertin puts into all her characters. The idea of the Beast Healers was really cool, I enjoyed getting a little bit of world-building with that whole part of the storyline.
The pacing of the story was what denied this book its 5th star. I found myself halfway through the book and nothing had been revealed or resolved, and then in a rush of the last 20 pages, everything comes together. Overall a good read, it has echoes of Mrs. Bertin's previous two books, but the political intrigue overshadows everything -- so if you like that sort of thing, you'll love this book. I'm definitely going back to reread the rest of the Dragonlord series after this.
One thing I did miss was Maylin! I want to see what her plans for Raven are! And also, what about Shima and Karelinn? I sincerely hope you write a fourth book, Mrs. Bertin! Your die-hard fans will be waiting!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Long time coming, and a long time to get going
By W. Fox
I was in 5th grade when Dragon and Phoenix was published. It was one of the first fantasy series I read after The Lord of the Rings (that wasn't specifically a children's or young adult series) and I very much enjoyed it. I'm in my mid-20's now and I had long believed that Joanne Bertin had retired from writing, so I was thrilled to see that Bard's Oath had finally been published.
The book's biggest flaw is pacing. As many other reviewers have noted, the book spends far too much time describing it's characters traveling too, and spending time at a horse fair, with very little in the way of interesting things happening. A bit past the half way mark there is a murder and things pick up, and it felt like I was finally reading the third book in the Dragonlord series. I couldn't put it down. And from there events race toward the conclusion.
Overall I did enjoy the book, but after more than a decade I do wish that this hadn't been the book to focus more on Raven and other "truehumans" rather than the Dragonlords. But that's a fan's disappointment and does not reflect the quality of the book. What's going on with Maurynna, Shima and perhaps other un-sensed Dragonlords? Hopefully Joanne Bertin will keep writing and we won't have to wait another decade to find out.
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