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FLIPOMETER RATING: 8 |
| Anne McCaffrey can write a good dragon book when it doesn't involve the Dragonriders of Pern series too heavily, and when she gets Richard Woods to do most of the work. | |
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FLIPOMETER RATING: 7 |
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Summary of contents: * 6 totally sweet stories. * 1 "Anne McCaffrey" (even Wild Animus was readable). * 2 other incomprehensible and dragonless stories that snuck in. * One 50-page abridgement of Dickson's 279-page Dragon and the George novel. That's a lot of pages gone, to say the least. |
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FLIPOMETER RATING: 8 |
| Selendrile, who fails to flip out at his first opportunity, redeems himself by behaving precisely like a black dragon would, even though his scales are said to be gold-colored. BTW, black dragons are the best. | |
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FLIPOMETER RATING: 9 |
| Wraith is a black dragon with yellow eyes. Enough said. | |
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FLIPOMETER RATING: 3 |
| Why, oh why is a silver dragon's name "Firedrake"? Why does Nettlebrand have to be an idiot? No, there's a total lack of real ultimate power here, and way too many similes, for that matter. | |
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FLIPOMETER RATING: 5 |
| An "improvement" over the movie, not that I thought it was so bad, mostly because the main complaint was "too many dragons", which is, of course, impossible. The book does not capture the real ultimate power of the dragons to full potential as the film did, however. | |
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FLIPOMETER RATING: 1 |
| I have it on good authority that this book deserves a flipometer rating of 1. Personally, I'm also horrified by the cover art. | |
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FLIPOMETER RATING: 1 |
| I was hoping that the dragon on the cover would find a reason to flip out and bite someone's head off, but it never happened. | |
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FLIPOMETER RATING: 7 |
| There was some nice flipping-out potential here, except Aslan thinks that people who get turned into dragons need to be "saved". It's part of some kind of metaphor, or something. |
