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I could give this book a solid,I would. I pickled it up several years ago but its been on my shelf collecting dust for that long, I was a little disappointed with the ending which wasnt much of one at all but a sidestep into the next book, It felt as though no great battle was won,no resolution, only a narrow escape by the skin of their teeth, Some of the characters including Erde and Hal were very well developed, Hal having been my favorite, I will get the next book simply because Im curious, Overall I can say I enjoyed the book, Volume One of The Dragon Quartet, . . My son loves dragons and was born under the Chinese zodiac sign of the dragon Golden Earth Dragon,

This begins like a movie we saw long ago, "Flight of Dragons" updating but I do not believe it is, Set in Medieval times. I heard about this series through the recommendation system here on Goodreads, I was excited because it has a few of my favorite things: dragons, swords, a female main character, and the elements, What can I say I was raised on Final Fantasy, :D

The character development was quite good it's difficult to have your main character with a major disability throughout almost the entire book.
Marjorie Kellogg played it very well, though, and it really worked, She hamstrung herself for a movie adaption, though, :P

It's a good start to the series, and I love how she emphasizes that the simplicity and freedom of the truth that is right in front of you is always to be preferred against the shackles of superstition and preconceived notions, and the elusive "they" who seem to say all sorts of malarkey but never bear the responsibility of the aftermath of their sayings.
The author employs a descriptive, yet very graspable writing style, The reader can easily become immersed in the story, However this is not a stand alone novel, The end takes you right into the second book, so if you begin this series, expect to want to finish, FANTASY
actual conversation that could have happened, but didn't
SOMEONE: Hey Braxton, you should read the Dragon Quartet,
ME: What's it about
SOMEONE: It's about these four dragons, each named after an element
ME: I have literally picked them up and read all of them before you finished that sentence.

So, basically, if you give me anything involving dragons, and anything involving the four elements, I will be all over it, The Book of Earth, featuring my favorite element of the four, is perfect for grabbing my attention, since the dragon of my favorite element is going to be in all four books.

The story tells of Erde, the daughter of a baron in Germany in the tenth century, After a priest fills her father's head with power, witches, and Satan, Erde runs away from her home, and discovers that she's the Dragon Guide to the dragon Earth, who wakes up with the capabilities of a dragon child.
So Erde, Earth, and knight and scholar of dragons Hal must journey across Germany in order to keep peace in the realm, and discover just what Earth's true calling is.

Any fan of fantasy should definitely pick this book up, After all, who doesn't love dragons I might be overstating how much I liked this book, The setup isn't earthshattering see what I did there but it sort of arrives at a different area that I was expecting, Then again, its been a while approximatelybooks ago since I read any books with dragons in them but this one was good, A bit more Young Adult than I was expecting but good,

Also, it should be noted than you know you've read too many fantasy books when you check the front for the map of the world the book is taking place in.
In fact, it took me a couple chapters to realize that the world its taking place in is a fictionalized version of Germany, Go fig. :P Erde, a young girl of royalty, finds herself in a most terrifying predicament, She escapes and joins up with two of the most unlikely traveling companions, . .

This was a good page turner for me, I was engrossed with the characters and fell in love with them from the start and found myself cheering them on from time to time.
I found myself not wanting to put the book down, When I worked in Minnesota, I was more or less cut off from books, I didn't have a library I could access and it was prekindle or electronic anything, I didn't even own a laptop or cell phone! So when someone told me about this amazing Scifi/Mystery bookstore sitelinkUncle Hugo's, I quickly went over and found my book haven.
I spent hours browsing the quiet store, The owner kindly introduced me to Ms, Kellogg and several other scifi/fantasy writers, I loved it there and every time I see this book, I am reminded fond memories of that store and working in Minneapolis,

This book caught my attention because A, it is a female writer B, there are DRAGONS! C. there is magic. I enjoyed this book and eagerly purchased the entire series, This was a good first book recommended to readers who like dragons and magic, Interesting concept regarding dragons and actually, an enjoyable tale overall, I especially liked the way Erde the human girl and Earth the dragon communicated with one another,

I hope the rest of the tales are as good as this one, I read this book many years ago and wanted to read it again because I remember really enjoying it, and I wasn't wrong, I love this book! Great main character and great interaction with a dragon, Erde, the daughter of a German noble is suddenly and terribly thrust into a world of magic and fear when she is accused of a crime she did not commit.
After fleeing her father's wrath and the insane ravings of a powerhungry priest, Erde heads into the mountains only to be joined by a small, clumsy, surprisingly unfantastic dragon named Earth.


Earth knows that he is called to a higher purpose, he just does not know exactly what, Content to put as much distance between her father and herself as possible Erde and Earth go on the run and are joined by an unexpected cast of characters including Hal, a knight past his prime with no lands to call his own, his mule who has an uncanny ability to choose the swiftest roads and "talk" to certain people, and an old shegoat who flatly refuses to allow Earth to eat her.
The unlikely team must navigate their way through unknown obstacles and face many dangers to help Earth remember and seek out his higher purpose,

I had mixed feelings about "The Book of Earth" throughout the entire reading, "The Book of Earth" started out slow, then got better, then started dragging again, got really, really good, then dropped off in the middle of the climax, and eventually led to a strange and anticlimatic ending.


Now, that's not to say it wasn't entertaining, "The book of Earth" definitely had its moments that made it worth reading, Erde is an exceptionally likeable character despite the fact that she hardly speaks throughout the entire story, Hal, the displaced knight is also a great character despite the fact that he plays an overly father figure who becomes annoying at times, as fathers will I suppose.
Earth, the dragon, is also likeable and has some very cute characteristics that make you want to hug him, He's insanely clumsy, purrs when he is petted, and lets his tongue hang out of the side of his mouth like a dog, He does however miss some of the endearing characteristics that fans of "Inheritance" will have come to enjoy such as the ability to speak, This lack of features, while annoying do not really detract from the story however, and if anything adds to the mystery a little bit,

My biggest gripe is that at the end and highpoint of the climax Kellogg breaks stride and we end up with a long soliloquy that detracts from the main theme that she had going up until that point.
It created a sense of surprise when the story finally came to a close and left me feeling kind of like: "That's it What the heck happened" I also felt that Kellogg should have taken the leap into a fantasy world.
Putting "The Book of Earth" in medieval Europe did not suit the story one bit, In fact, it became hard to remember that you were not engrossed in a fantasy world completely and it would have served her better to just create a new world that could have been more easily molded to her ideas and perhaps would have made the plot less tedious at times.


Overall this book left me with an extreme feeling of, . . indifference. I wasn't sad the book was over, wasn't glad I didn't have to read any more, I was completely devoid of feeling when I finally finished.
I feel no desire or sense of urgency to complete the series, and highly doubt I will anytime in the near future anyway,

If you take your hand put it parallel to the ground in front of your face and wiggle it back and forth a couple of times while making a whining sound that goes along the lines of "ehhhh.
. . " that would be a good summary of this book, EARTH MAGIC

"In the beginning of the World, four dragons were raised from elemental energies and set to work creating a climate and atmosphere.
They were called Earth, Water, Fire, and Air, When their job was done and the World was set in motion, the four found lairs where they expected to sleep out this particular world's history and not rise again until World's End.
"

But long before World's End something has begun to go horribly wrong, and Erde, only daughter of a powerful lord, is the one person who seems able to sense it.
With her mother and grandmother dead, and no one left to protecte her from the madness being spread by a priest ready to sacrifice anything and anyone to his cause, Erde flees her father's castle.
In her flight, she stumbles across the dragon called Earth, Drawn together by their mutual peril and need, Erde and Earth have no choice but to join forces on a quest to find Earth's mage, the one human who, perhaps, can set the World back on its proper course.



Description from back cover It was very good, although i wish Erde which btw is german for earth and thats what the author means when Erde says she has the same name as earth could talk for most of the book.
I wish the ending was better, but i cant wait to read the next one!!! The Dragon QuartetBkI loved them at first, and did read all four of them, but the end books started to wear on me.
Some of the writing style was difficult to read after a while, though the story was great, I think she tried too hard to have different characters, and they were too stilted Not sure how to describe what bothered me, other than the way she had some of them talk, among other things.
Worth the read, I think, but I'd get them from the library, or used as I did, This was a really entertaining read, the pacing was great, I really enjoyed the characters, To me there is nothing bad that I can say about the story, the only thing I didn't like was the cover, I wanted to be cooler, but what could I really expect it was a older book, All in all still a great read and I can't wait to read the next book

I really enjoyed this little fantasy book and am getting ready to start the last book in the series.
I enjoy the characters and the fantasy, These books are about four dragons, their human guides and their quest to discover why the dragons have been awakened and to what purpose, Each book features a different dragon and their guide, but the characters from previous books are also involved, There are mutiple settings which kept my interest medieval Germany, modern Africa, and future America, Kellogg emphasizes the effects of climate change in each book, culminating in an America where many cities have been flooded and the landscape is hot and barren.
It says a lot that it took meyears to remember I read this book, It wasn't very good. It didn't help either that I never found the other books, For the most part I like it, but things have a way of just magically working out WAY too often, Everything happened pretty easily for the main characters, all things considered, Part one is very sad, Erde's father, Baron Josef is convinced by an evil priest, Guillemo Gotti, that Erde has had sexual congress and kills her best friend as punishment.
When Baron Josef suddenly makes inappropriate advances to hisyear old daughter, Erde realizes that it is no longer safe to stay at Tor Alte.
Brother Gotti's is totally batshit crazy and is roaming the countryside on his own personal witch hunt, Unfortunately, Erde is caught in his crosshairs and flees into the woods where she comes face to face with a dragon named Earth, When Erde coincidentally meaning Earth comes across Heinrich Peder von Engle Hal she learns many things that she should have been taught but her grandmother died before she could impart all her knowledge of dragons and dragon quests.
The main thing she learns is that she is a Dragon Guide, Now she must figure out exactly what that means for her and for Earth, Earth is a very young dragon and he cannot remember why he was awakened or where he is bound, So they are running blind in hopes that Earth will remember before Brother Guillemo finds them,

I really felt for Erde, She's a naiveand out on her own in a scary world where females have no rights, Luckily she's found Earth who serves as her protector and confidant which is interesting since she lost her voice and communicates via telepathy, When Hal joins them on their quest, Erde finally has a male protector who knows some of what is going on and who has had previous dealings with Brother Guillemo.


Even though most of the story is a quest to nowhere for no particular reason except strange prophetic dreams, the story was fascinating and kept me turning pages.
The prose is wonderful and the characters Erde, Hal, Earth, Mule are entertaining with great personalities and very real problems, I wanted to know where they were going and why, I loved the dragon, the "smart" mule and even the shegoat who "tells" Earth not to eat her too funny, A wonderfully realized story in a world Germany I think that is both brutal and beautiful, I cannot wait to get my hands on sitelinkThe Book of Water and find out who finds Water and how their quest interacts with Earth and Erde's.


On a side note: the book is classified as young adult and even though the main character is only, there isn't any of the usual teenage angst and b.
s. I think it's because Erde is on her own for most of the story and she is voiceless, It's hard to complain when noone can hear you, .