Delve Into The Dragons Of Winter (The Chronicles Of The Imaginarium Geographica, #6) Depicted By James A. Owen Released As Paperbound

Ruby armor that can help defeat the Echthroi, Time travel to when Bert met Weena, and the discovery of a horrific future, Mystorians and their secrets. The missing boy Coal, where he is, and what his future means for the Caretakers and the Cabal, So many moving parts are in this story, setting us up for a fantastic finale, At times it seems as if everything the Caretakers have worked for is in jeopardy, about to be lost, but no one looses hope.
Hope is a central theme in this book, never giving up on it, holding tight that it will bring you out of the dark to a better place.


This series is just layering historical figures, literary elements from so many varied sources, pop culture, fantasy and fiction in ever evolving layers.
At times, it seems like too much stuff was crammed into this one book, but overall this had been such a rich, engaging, interesting series.
An incredibly unique set of books that keep you so involved and on the edge of your seat,

In this book, the goal was to try to find the Architect of the Keep of Time, and for the first time, a main storyline carried over into another volume.
The Architect was not located, but so many other threads were resolved, and introduced, that you were immediately drawn to pick up the final book and devour it.
Wow! On to the final fun, entertaining book! Originally posted on sitelinkBlueAnteater

The sixth in the Imaginarium Geographica series.

Alright, Ive given up trying to figure out all the intricate timey wimey plots in this series, Im just gonna sit back and enjoy the literary ride, Really liked the new characters, as well as though it was quite confusing the time travel bits, Penultimate books are always a quick read, but Owen managed to keep things interesting, Just wow I am just awed how each book is just as great as the last one!! All I can tell you really is to just read the series, it will change your life! I definitely enjoyed reading The Dragons of Winter by James A.
Owen. In this sixth adventure, our Caretakers well, some of them travel to the FUTURE, They travel to the future first seen or experienced by H, G. Wells Bert. Well, that's the future they THOUGHT they were heading to, In reality, they end up someplace very, very different, a whatmightbe world of darkness, The time they spend in this world is very interesting to me, and they do meet an interesting Bradburyinspired underground community.
But that's just a small part of the story, all the heroes and heroines are desperately trying to save time, to restore the timeline, to fix what has gone so horribly, horribly wrong with the world.
There are dozens of characters and plenty of stories including a few flashbacks, Readers learn of when a certain someone became apprentice to a certain dragon, There were things that definitely surprised me in this one!!! But overall, I was very satisfied,

This volume felt a bit stretched at times, Especially with the addition of yet another secret society, That being said it wasn't a bad book, The dystopian future which had a nice homage to Fahrenheitin it was well done, The battle of one ups manship between the heroes and villans was an interesting twist on what the reader would expect.
Personally I loved the battle goats, You will have to read it to find out why, The set up for the next, and final, volume was well done with a nice attention grabbing story twist too.
I am looking forward to the conclusion, Enjoy I highly recommend this series if you like YA fantasy, “The Dragons of Winter” is the penultimate book in “The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica” and I feel like its a noticeable improvement on the last book.
It still doesnt live up to the full promise and potential of the original book though, There are time travel shenanigans, but unlike last time where the time travel took us to justs London, the time travel leads us to a dystopian future world with loads of shoutouts to lateth century sciencefiction.
I would have preferred more of the Archipelago, but this isnt so bad because it has a similar feel to it.


The final battle is yet another one thats kind of not, and Im on the fence if I chalk this up to a thematic/stylistic thing or if I need to complain that there needs to be an actual battle, darn it.
And this one contains the start of more backstory about the dragons and the Archipelago, but thats not until we get towards the ending.
I appreciate it though because we learn some cool stuff with mythological characters showing up,

This one is also a cliffhanger, Some of the others have varying degrees of dangling Plot when the story ends, but this one actually ends before one the subplots ends, with a group heading into the City of Jade.


I am noticing that theres a trend that happens a LOT in these books where someone native to the situation shows up and talks to the Caretakers, appearing to be troubled but helpful, only to eventually betray them.
This keeps happening. This happens twice to the same group in this book, Youd think they would learn by now,

So yeah, I just I think its an improvement, and its got a lot of cool stuff, but in terms of actual Plot its far from perfect for me.
It was a long reading, In a busy month, I read it little by little on bed, before falling asleep, And, to my surprise, I enjoyed it more than the previous two or three volumes, I read it thinking on "endind what I started" since there were only two books left, but, since the story got a bit better Im actually looking forward to read the next volume : But Im still upset that the Chronicles of Imaginarium Geographica arent about the imaginarium geographica at all anymore, so only three.
Taken from the jacket cover, "The Caretakers are at War, The Archipelago of Dreams has fallen to the Echthroi, and the link to the Summer Country has been lost, The Cabalrenegade Caretakers who have become agents of the Shadoware amassing power to open our world to their masters, Only by rebuilding the Keep of Time can the two worlds be reconnected, but not even the vanished Dragons knew how the Keep was built, or who built it and the Echthroi are coming.
"Caretaker Emeritus finds a trail that might lead to the Architect of the Keep and Edmund McGee and Rose Dyson, The Grail Child, learns to map time.
WOW what a roller coaster of events and emotions, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams are asked by H, G. Wells to become Caretakers. A unexpected enemy shows up, leaving you to wonder if things will ever be the same and if anyone can be trusted.
James A. Owen pulls his characters from famous authors, scientists and wellknown men and women, All I can really say is OMG Goats!!!!!!!

I'm sure that eventually I'll be able to say more, but I'm still in shock over how awesome this series/book is.
. . By this point, the series has outright stopped

making sense and has become a convoluted mess, And indeed that wouldn't be much of a problem I mean, that pretty much describes any Stephen King book and yet we love him for it if Owen were a better writer and managed to hold the reader's attention.
This book finally marked the moment when the series quit being entertaining despite some "fun" details here and there, mostly in the form of the "spot the reference" game I mentioned in earlier reviews.
What started out as an innocent, simple and yet rather unique series has become the analogue of a bumbling slapstick character from silentera films.
Just one more to go, let's see if it manages to turn the tide in the end, Overall, as this series goes on, I'm struggling to keep the multiple story lines and characters straight,

A few years ago I discovered the novel Here, There Be Dragons by James A, Owen. This is the first book in thebooks series known as the “The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica” which follows the lives of Jack, John and Charles as they battle the forces of evil in an effort to save the World.
Quite a tall order for three unknown gentlemen from Oxford,

This is a wonderful series of books that draws on many of the known myths and histories laid out in our most treasured stories.
The books mix elements of time travel and fantasy to produce a rich and dense forest of interconnected story linesboth real and fictionalthat keep you moving forward to discover the Grand Reveal at the end of book seven, The First Dragon.
The artwork at the start of each chapter is also stunning! Thats right, each chapter in every single novel of this series is illuminated.
Each image is hand drawn by the author himself,

By the third book in the series, The Indigo King, the plot gets a bit complicated and becomes one of those time travel books/series that will keep your mind spinning and trying to work it all out.
The shear number of the characters with their similar names and the overlapping, intertwining timelines also cause the mind to spin a bit.
However, I stuck it out after a confusing third book and thoroughly enjoyed book, The Shadow Dragons, and book, The Dragons Apprentice, which set the series up for the what I hoped would be a fantastic finish.
Book, The Dragons of Winter was once again just a s complicated as bookand once again confusion set in.
However, all was made clear with book, The First Dragon, The conclusion was satisfying even if it felt a little rushed with some of the true historical background about the three main Caretakers not being fully fleshed out and shared with the readers.


Overall, I liked “The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica” by James A, Owen. The world he creates is partially known and brand new, The illustrations provided in each book at the start of every chapter are amazingly detailed, “The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica” series by James A, Owen gets a thumbs up,

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