Mark Leiknes
Auteur de Quest Kids and the Dragon Pants of Gold
Séries
Œuvres de Mark Leiknes
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 20th Century
- Sexe
- male
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 22
- Popularité
- #553,378
- Évaluation
- 5.0
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 6
Ned and his friends are taking a rest after the last adventure, which had them up against a dragon. Of course, things can't stay quite. A gloomy prophecy from some guy named Doug has a dark shadow hanging over the kingdoms. If that wasn't enough to lure the group onto a new quest, Ned also has reason to believe that his parents might still be alive. Determined to get to the bottom of everything, the group sets off on a ship with a sailor, who may or may not know what he's doing. Either way, adventure is unavoidable, and it never comes as any of them might of predicted.
While this book takes off where the last one ended, it's still no problem to sink right in without having the entire background. In other words, this can be read as a stand alone.
After reading the first book in the series, I was ready to dive into a delightful mix of adventure and humor...and this book delivers. Ned and his friends have gained experience in their roles as questers, and hit these adventures with a little more experience. Not that it really helps, since the circumstances they run across are always unpredictable and, often, ridiculous. Nothing is as it first appears and requires very unique solutions. This mixes with more straight-forward humor to create a fun read the entire way through. The danger adds the right spark of tension to push the tale forward and has the reader wondering if the friends will survive.
The font is on the larger side and weaves with illustrations on every page. At times, this even swings into the graphic novel direction. The graphics bring across the friends and situations nicely and add to each scene. Despite both of these, the text isn't overly simple but does fit well to the intended age group. I'd even recommend this for the upper end of the middle grade range, not only due to this, but also because several puns or jokes seem to fit better to slightly older readers.
It's a fun read with a very unexpected ending, and I'm looking forward to seeing where Ned and his gang are headed next.
I received an ARC, am giving this 4.5 stars, and rounding up.… (plus d'informations)