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Heart's Blood (1996)

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015205118X (ISBN13: 9780152051181)
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Heart's Blood (1996) - Plot & Excerpts

This is the second book to Jane Yolen's series of dragon taming. This book captivates the reader at the start-reminding the readers that Jakkin has accomplished his goal to become a dragon master. As a dragon master, people start to treat him like a real master. Later on, he would meet Akkin who travels with him to learn and survive from all the mythical and treacherous dangers approaching them. Jakkin with his dragon, Heart Blood, travels over boulders to ultimately strengthen his dragons' attacks and tame it to the highest level possible. This book depicts the efforts of how Jakkin and Akkin help each other during the cliffs-ever since running away from the orphanage they were once raised at. It's like going on a camping trip with friends and you finally realize the bonds that you and your friends have. Jakkin and Akkin also have to escape the dangers of the wild dragons. These dragons provoke an intense obstacle to trespass. This book was filled with so much action that it felt like watching a movie at the movie theaters. I enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to fantasy readers and everyone. Everyone can connect to this book of pain, sorrow, teamwork, hardships and friendship through rigorous acts of battles to demolish the other untamed dragons in the wild.

The second book in the "Pit Dragon" trilogy, this volume finds Jakkin getting ready for his dragon's,Heart's Blood, first hatching. Eventually there are five hatchlings and Jakkin vows none will be sold or sent to the stews. While this is happening Jakkin receives an urgent message from Akki, his best friend and love interest. She needs help. So of course all he can think about is figuring out where she is.In all of this mess Jakkin meets Golden, a Federation member apparently trying to infiltrate the rebels in the city of Rokk. He wants Jakkin to spy for him. Jakkin is not sure what this entails but doesn't feel quite right about it. But he'll do anything he needs to save Akki.On his journey's as a "spy," Jakkin meets many different people. He is not sure who to trust as each person is telling him not to trust anyone else. Will he ever find Akki?Jakkin is sure that all of this rebel activity is going to affect his life forever, but he's not sure how. But he is pretty sure it won't be good.

What do You think about Heart's Blood (1996)?

Nothing life-changing, but this is a decent installment in a fun series. I enjoyed getting to see a bit more of the Austarian culture outside of the farms. The political tug-of-war between the anarchist rebels and the controlling Feds, while only seen in glimpses, felt realistic--and I like that Yolen doesn't come down on one side or the other, but shows both points of view as potentially sympathetic as well as dangerous. This ambiguity is embodied in the person of Golden, the foppish double (triple?) agent, who is by far the most intriguing character of the series yet. I sincerely hope that he (view spoiler)[is not dead (hide spoiler)]
—Cassandra

I read the Pit Dragon trilogy as a girl, and it stuck with me. When I saw the middle book for sale in the dollar bin at the Half-Price Books, I didn't think: I just rescued that bit of me that was still madly in love with the book. And, despite the twenty or so intervening years - I don't regret it.YA sci-fi/fantasy, but long before romance in dystopia became the predominant feature of the genre, Heart's Blood is the tale of a dragon, her boy, and his girl, mixed up with a revolution and an evolution. It's a story of growth and the attendant growing pains, not just of the boy (Jakken) but of the planet (Austar IV, a former penal colony quite like Australia, but with an almost Roman civilization built on "gladiator" style dragon fighting and farming.) It has depth, resonance, and relevance that make me long for the stronger youth fantasy fiction of my, well, youth. (My dystopia was better than yours, lol.)It does have a romance, but it's far from the most important feature of the story. It is also, thankfully, a chaste romance, suitable for children from perhaps 12 and up. As for me, I'm going to keep looking and see if I can't turn up the other two books in the trilogy. I think my daughters will eventually enjoy them as much as I did.
—Dingleberry

I have had a bit of a difficult time finishing this book...I started it in June and it is now the beginning of November. I didn't find the beginning particularly engaging, though it did get better after several chapters, I still don't know how I feel about the ending. This book wasn't bad, and until I finished it today I would have told you that if I would have read this book when I was in Jr. High or High school and reading Anne McCaffrey's novels I would have loved it. Now I am not so sure. The story line, that most of the book follows, is not wrapped up in the end, even remotely, nor does it seem to become so in the later books. We will see if I decide to read the last book of the trilogy in the future.
—Vanessa

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