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juushikaTitle: Talking to Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #4)
Author: Patricia C. Wrede
Narrator: Bruce Coville et al.
Published: Listening Library, 2002 (1985)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 255
Total Page Count: 537,795
Text Number: 1969
Read Because: continuing the series, audiobook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Daystar is sent into the Enchanted Forest in possession of a sword and his mother's assurance that he'll figure out what to do with it when the time comes. This is fun! It feels substantial, and Daystar's PoV is the biggest factor in that: an educated outsider to the Enchanted Forest, he can be both reader stand-in and guide, and frames the whimsy and danger with humorous genre-awareness; and the mystery of what he doesn't know keeps this from being a straight travelogue or questing narrative. I still prefer Dealing with Dragons, but that's my particular wish-fulfillment fantasy. I regret that I didn't read this series in publication order, because the interstitial books almost serve a purpose, then; I get the nods and there sure is a sweeping, summarized backstory for them to fill out. Instead, at least, I get to go out on a high note.
Author: Patricia C. Wrede
Narrator: Bruce Coville et al.
Published: Listening Library, 2002 (1985)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 255
Total Page Count: 537,795
Text Number: 1969
Read Because: continuing the series, audiobook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Daystar is sent into the Enchanted Forest in possession of a sword and his mother's assurance that he'll figure out what to do with it when the time comes. This is fun! It feels substantial, and Daystar's PoV is the biggest factor in that: an educated outsider to the Enchanted Forest, he can be both reader stand-in and guide, and frames the whimsy and danger with humorous genre-awareness; and the mystery of what he doesn't know keeps this from being a straight travelogue or questing narrative. I still prefer Dealing with Dragons, but that's my particular wish-fulfillment fantasy. I regret that I didn't read this series in publication order, because the interstitial books almost serve a purpose, then; I get the nods and there sure is a sweeping, summarized backstory for them to fill out. Instead, at least, I get to go out on a high note.
