The Dragon Token

by Melanie Rawn

Book Overview

The second book in the Dragon Star trilogy returns to the spellbinding fantasy world introduced in the bestselling Dragon Prince trilogy With her bestselling fantasy trilogy, Dragon Prince, Melanie... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0886775426
• ISBN13: 9780886775421
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Artistic!!

This book continued the dragon star series with a strong flourish. These characters never stop amazing me. I don't care who you are but you will connect in one way or another with one of these characters. If you have had the pleasure of reading any of the books by Martin, J.V. Jones, Douglas, and Tolkien you will find yourself at home reading this series.

All Time Favorite

I read this series over and over. The characters are so richly developed, it's like revisiting old friends. This was the first series I read as a young adult. I am ruined! I read every fantasy series I can find, and though many are good, I can't find one that is better.

Children at war

A boy 7 years old left to rule a princedom. And the mother who mourns not only the death of a husband, a brother, and all her brothers family. Sits in a chair and weeps at the loss of childhood. At the end of this book so many children are fighting. from 7 - 11 years old. That I was left thinking to my self how odd. Then it occurred to me. Almost all the men are dead.This is one of the most gripping novels I have ever read. Book 2 The Dragon Token, puts the reader right in the middle of the war with the Vellant'im and their High Warlord. And the Azhrei and the people of the Kingdoms. War is hell as someone once said. And Melanie Rawn makes sure you understand exactly what that means. By allowing you to invest yourself into a character only to have that character die to the ravages of war.This is unlike any book I have ever read. I found my self throwing the book across the room on more then one occasion. No book has ever griped me so tightly or effected me so deeply.

Excellent, if long, reading

Melanie Rawn has never ceased to continue to amaze me that she can manage to keep me entrhalled in a single novel which has itself enough pages to constitute a trilogy by other authors. The Dragon Token starts a little bit slow in rehashing every character's reaction to the ending of "Stronghold" (which I won't reveal here), but in looking back, it only helps to add to the believability and "humanness" of the characters. The reader is taken through several exciting battles, and each time just as you think you understand which side is going to vanquish the other, a new twist is added and you find yourself retreating with one side or the other. The book is well written enough so that you don't feel that these twists are unbelievable or just put in to drag it out even longer. The author continues to not hold her main characters in any type of special place, feeling free to maim, kill off, or just simply give them very human faults. This is both infuriating when you so much want to like and believe in a character and you find out that they are only human after all, as well as exciting, because you know that you can't count on your favorite hero to be the one to save the day, or even to be alive at the end of the book :) On the other hand, the heroes do continue to be lively and refreshing.