Title: Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
Author: Brandon Mull
Why I Read This: I enjoyed the other books in this series
Short Summary: With the Society of the Evening Star seeking new artifacts, Kendra and the Knights of the Dawn must race the Society to the key to the next vault
Website: http://www.fablehaven.com
I’ve reviewed book 3 of this series before, and because I enjoyed it so much, I was looking forward to reading Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary. I wasn’t disappointed. When I started reading, it was hard to put down. This book has the imagination, action, intrigue, and surprises that I had come to expect from the other books.
This book is definitely easiest to understand if you’ve read the previous books, but this one has it’s own major conflict that is resolved within the book. However, because book 5 will conclude the series, Mull did include a cliff hanger at the end of book 4. It’s not a huge one, but it does leave me anxious for Keys to the Demon Prison, which I’m guessing will come out next year.
In previous books, almost all the adults become incapacitated so the teenagers have to save the day. Also, in the middle of the book, an adventurer will swoop in and help solve the crisis. I liked that in this book, neither of those two happened. It made it so that it didn’t feel like the books were following the same pattern. Also, the absense of the adventurer there to save the day made the triumph better.
There is no swearing or sex in this book. There is a bit of actiony violence (including people dying) but nothing graphic.
Not much else to say about this book, except that overall, I give it 5 out of 5 stars.
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