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Dragonmaster: Dragonmaster Trilogy, Book One (Dragon Master Trilogy 2)

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This should be the book you take to the beach or read for pure entertainment. Better than some stupid inane romance novel. I was given this book to read while recovering from extensive surgury. Thank God because even though I am a chick, I love a good battle. I can hardly wait to read the other books in this series.

On his way home Hal Kailas saw the lord's son Nanpean torture a baby dragon; he punches the boy and takes the kit back to his mother. Hal's family is in danger of losing their tavern for Hal's actions so he leaves the village of Caerly in the Kingdom of Deraine. He becomes a vagabond, wandering from job to the job, never finding anything that interested him until he becomes the goferr for a traveling troupe that sells dragon rides.

Hal knows he wants to do something with dragons on his own. However, the Queen of Roche uses a land dispute to go to war with Deraine and Sagene. Hal t is conscripted and rises to the occasion to become a leader of men. When his troops are massacred, Hal enlists to be trained to fight on dragons in a new unit. His exploits and daring earn him the hearts and admiration of the populace but the war costs him that what he treasures most. When he is injured, instead of mustering out like the king expects him to, Hal volunteers to lead a new dragon unit as their Dragonmaster.

This book is filled with plenty of action and will appeal to readers who love military fantasy. The use of dragons and magicians to aid in the war effort is so much a part of the storyline that readers will find themselves believing that such things are really possible in wartime. As the hero matures, he and the audience observe the toll of war as humans and dragons die at an alarming rate. Chris Bunch is a talented storyteller who entertains his audience with a fantastic sword and sorcery epic.

Harriet Klausner

I'd read some of Bunch's work before - mainly, his trilogy Seer King / Demon King / Warrior King - and it was pretty good, so I expected this to be at least on a similar level. Unfortunately, it's not. Maybe if you have only read children's books before taking this on, it would be a good read, but if you've read very much quality fantasy at all, this is a very trite read. As others have noted, characterization is thin, and the prose is competent but very pedestrian. It almost feels like an outline that with a little more imagination and flair would have been a pretty fun read. I actually didn't even expect this to be anything but a light and fun read going in, but it's not even that - it's just limp, and I had to force myself to finish. It's easy reading though, so at least it went fairly quickly.

Well, what to say...I didn't last long with this book...put it down after page 30.
I was expected to be transported into another world, to be introduced to an amazing character/s, and to travel with those characters through their trials and tribulations.. Not this book.
If you're into fantasy, Robert Jordan, Lorna Freeman, and David Drake (so far) are much better...

Some may say this book sucks or is mediocre but people are entilted to their opinions. I found this book a fun light read. Sure it may not have been presented to the best of its abilities but it was a wonderful story never the less

I'm pretty tolerant of mediocre books and usually enjoy anything featuring dragons, but this one was pretty awful. The author does a very poor job of making you care about what happens to the characters, the writing style is boring, and my god, I've never seen so many run-on, comma-filled sentences in my life. The first sentence of the book is an entire paragraph with something like 20 commas in it. Ridiculous. If you want a GOOD series of books with dragons being employed as weapons of war I suggest the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.

As for this, skip it.

Before hand I would just like it to be known that I saw this book in the store and decided to try it. Without knowing who the author was or any of his other works. This book felt like it was the writers first novel. The plot was good and progressed somewhat well. The rest of the book was pretty lacking in story depth and other developments between characters and dragon's, which is what I was really looking for.

This book is amazing, I enjoyed every turn of the page wanting to know what came next. A must read for all

This title was originally published in 2003 as "Storm of Wings" book one of the Dragonmaster trilogy.The cover artwork has been changed,published by Orbit.Still selling on Amazon in standard paperback(cheaper).

After reading Dragonmaster, I was appalled to find this writer, Chris Bunch, had the audacity to write more than this one book. His characters are neither likable on unlikable, the writing over all is trite and lacking and disjointed. As to magic, it seems as though he threw it in as an afterthought as in, "oh yeah, I'm writing a fantasy novel. There should be magic!" His descriptions are simply not there from the character of the weather to the content of the battle grounds. In one scene, the main character sees an enemy soldier standing over three of his fellow soldiers and kills the enemy soldier. No description of the action, no reaction from the enemy soldier as if he's just standing there waiting to be killed by the main character. All in all, if you're thinking about buying this book, don't and move on to better fare.