There's an intense dreamlike scene involving corpses of familiar characters and another involving a crowd of undead. Teens are in near constant peril from magical creatures including a demon, an ogre, and dragons. Add your rating. Add your rating See all 2 kid reviews.
All seems peaceful, but they soon learn trouble is brewing among the dragons. Celebrant the Dragon King is trying to take control of the Wyrmroost sanctuary, escape confinement, and begin a new age for dragons. It falls to Kendra and Seth to take over as the new caretakers, in uneasy partnership with Celebrant, who sees their youth and inexperience as weakness.
The siblings know this assignment could easily end with their death, but they set out on a magic-steeped journey to shore up Wyrmroost's defenses and prove they're up to the task of overseeing the sanctuary. Brandon Mull returns to Fablehaven with a sequel that's wandering yet still sure to please fans with familiar characters, nods to early adventures, and new thrills among the dragons of Wyrmroost.
Kendra and Seth are both a little wiser in Dragonwatch , but they're tested anew as they're thrust into the role of dragon keepers. Newcomers to Mull's work might also be tested, as he spends a fair amount of the book squeezing in references to characters and scenes from the first series. Mull Five Kingdoms series tends to rely on convenient devices to advance the story: Each fresh challenge is resolved by discovering another rule to manipulate or a character's magical ability.
Gender roles remain frustrating: Seth is headstrong, bold, and reckless, quick to break important rules. Kendra has proven herself a thoughtful warrior, but Mull peppers her narrative with so many self-directed questions she seems timid -- and she's distracted by attractive boys. Humor and rich characters keep things lively. Families can talk about the gender roles in Dragonwatch. Seth is presented as headstrong, bold, and reckless.
Kendra's frequent self-directed questions make her seem timid, and she's distracted by attractive boys. Do these differences between the two characters conform to gender stereotypes?
If you've read the Fablehaven books, is this book an enjoyable extension of the story? If you're new to this world, does this book make you want to read the first series?
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Dragonwatch, Book 1: A Fablehaven Adventure. Wandering fantasy sequel will appeal to franchise fans. Brandon Mull Fantasy Rate book. Read or buy. She says that even though the Sorenson's locked her in the Quiet Box, she is now loyal to them because of the Sphinx 's greater betrayal to her. Kendra joins the Knights of the dawn and meets Gavin Rose , who she began to have a crush on. They go on a mission with Warren and Dougan to Lost Mesa so that they can try to retrieve another secret artifact.
The whole mission was useless however as the artifact was removed by Patton Burgess many years ago and transferred to Fablehaven. She and Warren returned home only to find that a magical plague has been spreading, turning light creatures dark, and humans into shadow people that only Seth can see.
When dark brownies attacks the House , everyone escapes to the nearest safe-haven, near the pond surrounding the Fairy Queen's Shrine. Kendra goes to talk to Lena , and succeeds in persuading her to give up the location of the hidden artifact that Patton hid and information on how to retrieve it by showing Lena a picture of him.
She was then left behind while the others went off to try and retrieve it, only to find that Hugo returned, carrying Seth and Patton Burgess. Patton explained that he came forward through time thanks to the Chronometer which was the hidden artifact in the Old Manor and that it has the power over time. Kendra watched as he convinced Lena to come out of the pond.
Later, he uses a rowboat to take her to the Shrine of the Fairy Queen to return the Silver Bowl that Lena had brought out of the Pond with her and which originally belonged to the Shrine. Kendra threw it into the pond the previous summer as her Grandfather thought that the naiads would return it.
Upon returning the bowl, Kendra asked the Fairy Queen to help her destroy the plague. The Queen destroys her Shrine in order to create a talisman of light, telling Kendra that whoever connects the pebble with the dark nail, which is one of the main causes of the plague , will destroy both objects but perish.
She later held the light pebble near Coulter who had been turned into a shadow person upon her brother's request, and ended up restoring him. They set out together the next day to destroy the nail and stop the plague. Lena lost her life as she decided to connect the two objects together, telling Kendra to toss it to her in a desperate situation.
After the plague stopped, Kendra received news that the Sphinx was indeed a traitor during an early birthday party which was thrown as an attempt to cheer her up as she had been grieving for 3 days over Lena's death. By this time, she was already feeling better as Patton , who had also been grieving as well came out of the house earlier to speak with her, informing her that he was about to return to his own time and assured her that it was not her fault that Lena perished and that it was only because of the dire situation they were in.
Kendra is kidnapped and replaced by a stingbulb version of herself. After her kidnapping she is brought to Torina Barker who has worked closely with the Sphinx. While Kendra is staying as a prisoner in Torina 's house she is forced by the Sphinx to use the Oculus and she soon lost control of it. She was saved from losing her mind completely by the Fairy Queen who managed to communicate with her when she accidentally stared into her Realm.
Kendra was later slipped a Knapsack from a mysterious person and created a duplicate of herself with a Stingbulb in the front pocket of the Knapsack and issued instructions to her duplicate to pose as her, collect information and flee to Fablehaven as soon as she could, before climbing into the Knapsack room and telling her duplicate to throw it out of the window. She was shortly rescued by Trask and was taken back to Fablehaven where she learned that Vanessa had aided in her escape and she was now living in a cell in the Dungeon instead of the Quiet Box.
She also realized that her family believed she was dead. Kendra helped to decipher a message on the roof of a hidden chamber beyond the Hall of Dread in the Fablehaven Dungeon and they discovered that the Translocator 's vault key was hidden in one of the three Dragon Sanctuaries closed to human visitors left by Patton , who gave the first horn of a Unicorn , which was also the key to the gate of the Sanctuary to the Centaurs of Fablehaven Who guard it as their most prized talisman.
Warren came along to protect Kendra. Kendra goes to the Shrine at Wyrmroost with the help of Raxtus , a fairy - dragon she befriended while Warren rested in the Knapsack due to injuries caused by a Peryton and the others, including her brother who had sneaked into the mission in the knapsack upon Warren's request, got captured by Griffins and a Dwarf named Zogo , who works for the sky giant Thronis.
Fortunately, she managed to see them again later as Seth managed to talk Thronis out of cooking them in a pie and they all headed together into the Dragon Temple. When Glommus put them all to sleep with this breath, she was rescued and awakened by Vanessa who manage to kill the Dragon by taking control of Tanu in his sleep.
After waking everyone else and proceeding on their mission, she and Seth decided to combine efforts in order to kill the poisonous Dragon guardian Siletta by holding hands while they both touch the Unicorn horn.
She helped her brother touch it against the Dragon , killing her. She later witnessed Gavin transform into a black Dragon. He ate Dougan , kicked Mara off a cliff, and tried to kill Kendra but she survived thanks to a Breastplate made out of adamant that Seth had given her earlier in the series. She was soon cornered by Gavin in his human form inside of Sidestep Cleft who tried to steal the Unicorn horn and the key to the vault which hid the Translocator.
She witnessed helplessly as Gavin destroyed the knapsack , trapping Warren inside. She was saved from getting kidnapped by Gavin , whom she realised to be Navarog , the Demon Prince, by Raxtus , who ate him up when Navarog was confronting her, still in his human form. In the end, she and all the survivors, including Mara , fled Wyrmroost and returned to Fablehaven. There, she received news that her parents, Scott and Marla , had been kidnapped by the Society of the Evening Star.
After navigating many obstacles, she succeeds in taking hold of the Translocator and recharged it in order for her, Tanu , Elise and Trask to escape from their enemies who had been in close pursuit ever since they arrived at Obsidian Waste and who were currently attacking them. Unfortunately, the others got captured before they could do anything else. She managed to rescue Warren and they all teleported back to Fablehaven. Later, she went back in time with her grandparents, Warren and Coulter using the Chronometer in order to speak with Patton , who had left a note instructing them to do so if the end of the world seemed close at hand.
He advised them to try and get Vanessa's secret out of her. Kendra got an assignment to go and speak with Vanessa to try to convince her to let out her secret. She was also given the assignment to go and speak with the Fairy Queen to see if she could lend any aid. Back in the dungeon of Fablehaven , she failed to get Vanessa to tell her secret as Vanessa felt that it was not the right time yet.
However, in the dead of night sometime later, Vanessa felt that it was finally time for them to learn her secret and so two masked visitors visited the house. With the Chronometer Coulter transported the taller visitor, Kendra, her grandparents, and Warren ten years back in time. There, Kendra realized that the taller visitor was actually her maternal grandmother, Gloria Larsen whom she had assumed dead.
She learned that they had actually buried a Stingbulb version of her grandparents and that her maternal grandmother and grandfather had really been working as spies for the Knights of the Dawn this whole time. She learns that Living Mirage was the fifth secret preserve , managed by the Sphinx , located in eastern Turkey and that was where her brother and the rest of her friends had been taken to after they were captured.
A rescue mission was immediately planned, and everyone except Coulter and Dale went on the mission. When the shorter visitor, a Dwarf named Tollin , betrayed them and stole the Translocator , Kendra was brought down to a cell that Seth had occupied only to find out from Bracken , a male Unicorn in human form who came to her cell that Seth had escaped with the Translocator from that they have lost earlier.
He then told her that he sensed that someone had intruded upon his cell and so they went to check it out, only to find Warren who inform them that the Sphinx had lost control of the Society and that he wanted them to escape and protect the Eternals. She learns that Seth was embarking on a mission of his own and that Coulter had perished.
Resisting her sorrow, she escapes with the others and goes to speak with the Fairy Queen again, Accompanied by Bracken. She quickly realizes that the Fairy Queen seemed to really care about him.
The four of them tried, but failed to protect the Eternals , resulting in the necessity to meet up with her brother, who acquired a very powerful sword called Vasilis. Raxtus flies to try and get help from other Dragons to help fight the Demons imprisoned in the Demon Prison while Kendra, Bracken , Warren, and Trask , who had been controlled by a Narcoblix who wanted him to aid the Society in destroying the Eternals , and who joined them after Bracken used his Second Horn to get the Narcoblix to release his hold on Trask.
They head off to meet Seth and the others. She had two guardians Astrids , Crelang and Rostimus , whose job was to protect her during the upcoming battle, led by Bracken who, to her surprise, had amazing leadership skills.
Human-sized Fairies flew out from the Fairy Queen's Realm joined them and Kendra noticed she had not seen Fairies like them ever since she gave the Fairies back at Fablehaven the Elixir to transform them to help her fight Bahumat.
When the Demon Prison finally open, many Demons came out and Kendra found herself in the middle of the battle, unable to do anything while her friends, brother and other creatures of light that emerged from the Fairy Queen's Realm fought separate opponents. She saw her brother's guardian Astrid carrying him over with news that he had been injured. At around the same time, she saw small Fairies and other creatures were coming out in great numbers from the Fairy Queen's Realm.
Then, she witnessed as the Fairy Queen , herself, who was revealed to be a Unicorn , came out of her Realm in human form and went to challenge the Demon King Gorgrog. Bracken , who is revealed to be her son, went over to help her but it was a losing battle. Kendra decided to ask Seth, who was still weak from his injury if she could borrow Vasilis so she could aid the Fairy Queen. Her brother consented and she rushed forward, and with a few strokes, succeeded in killing Gorgrog.
The Fairy Queen rescued her husband from him just before he died. Everyone went into the fallback position where they were all being treated. Dragons joined the battle, forcing the Demons into what was once the Fairy Queen's Realm. The Fairy Queen explained that she will make the former Demon Prison her new Realm and repair all the Shrines that she had destroyed. During a feast a few days later, Kendra voted for the Sphinx 's punishment to become a new Eternal to prevent him from trying to open the Demon Prison again.
Back at Fablehaven , she was happy that her family was all around her again. Her parents finally believed in magical creatures and they had decided to move there. She received a visit from Bracken , who showed her the newly repaired the Shrine and told her that he had never fallen for a girl in a very long time.
He told her to think about it and they would see where the future took them. While this is great news in its own right, this also helps Kendra have enough courage to face Mendigo, Muriel's limberjack, and trick him into going close enough to the water for the naiads to pull him in. And that's a scary thing for her to do. When she sees Mendigo, "Her throat constricted with fear" So Kendra's bravery, inspired in large part by her love for her family, helps her face a bunch of fearful stuff and save the day.
Kendra may tease her little brother a lot after all, it's her duty as a big sister but overall she's just, well, a good person. After all, she's not the one annoying fairies and spiting witches. How do we know Kendra's a good person deep down? After Midsummer Eve, when she and Seth figure out that the mysterious loud noise is actually coming from the ginormous cow—Viola—in the barn, Kendra says, "We should probably try to milk her" This is based on the observation that the cow's udder looks swollen and painful.
Seth isn't thrilled about this idea, but Kendra insists, and she's even the one to come up with a plan for how to pull this feat off it involves ladders and very quickly gets slippery, but it works. Kendra feels compassion for Viola another time, when she has to gather milk and blood for the Fairy Queen's elixir. She yells, "Sorry, Viola! And then, as soon as the blood-milk-tears elixir turns the fairies into human-sized warrior maidens, Kendra asks them to restore Dale to life and they do before she heads off to save everyone else.
We don't know why, but the whole experience leaves Kendra changed: she no longer requires Viola's milk to see magic critters. Is this related to how Kendra might become a future caretaker of Fablehaven? Or her interaction with the Fairy Queen? Whatever the cause, this change seems to reflect a fundamental truth about Kendra: she has a good heart and clear vision on the inside, and now she has clear vision on the outside too, allowing her to see with eyes unclouded.
How that's gonna work out in the future will be interesting to see. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide.
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