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  • Unless someone name Yaya just became a dragon-rider.

    Regretsy – It’s Britney, Bitch 2010

  • If you like sci-fi Mercedes Lackey the Valdemar series fits into the second genre as more subtley do the dragon-rider series by Anne McAffrey later books

    Gay teen blogger/book reviewer takes librarians to task over LGBT lit « Pinched Nerves 2010

  • I am thinking that good heroic fantasy might do well to forget the anglophile Tolkien tropes, character types and the whole idea of "races" and concentrate on mood, character, plot and atmosphere rather than the too-often seen half-elf on a quest to partner up with a dragon-rider and a trusty wood ranger.

    Manthycore update michael 2008

  • I am thinking that good heroic fantasy might do well to forget the anglophile Tolkien tropes, character types and the whole idea of "races" and concentrate on mood, character, plot and atmosphere rather than the too-often seen half-elf on a quest to partner up with a dragon-rider and a trusty wood ranger.

    Archive 2008-01-01 michael 2008

  • Once a dragon has chosen its rider, the bond cannot be severed and Will has to give up his career in the navy to train as a dragon-rider.

    Temeraire by Naomi Novik Adam Whitehead 2008

  • Once a dragon has chosen its rider, the bond cannot be severed and Will has to give up his career in the navy to train as a dragon-rider.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Adam Whitehead 2008

  • BRIEF SYNOPSIS: An inexperienced dragon-rider must train to become the warrior who will save all the land from an Evil Emperor.

    October 2005 2005

  • BRIEF SYNOPSIS: An inexperienced dragon-rider must train to become the warrior who will save all the land from an Evil Emperor.

    REVIEW: Eldest by Christopher Paolini 2005

  • Boy finds egg of all-but-extinct dragon, must run from the king's evil goons while learning to be a dragon-rider...tell me your young man and HIS bonded critter don't befriend a wise old mentor along the way...

    HH Com 209 (204) Miss Snark 2006

  • His time as a dragon-rider had given him insight into where the dragons nested.

    The Dragons of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1994

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