Aerie

Dragon Jousters Series, Book 4

By: Mercedes Lackey

Narrated by: Ryan Burke

Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

Kiron has secretly gathered an army of dragon riders to seek refuge in the abandoned desert city they have named Sanctuary, where they join with other dragon riders to rid their world of both war and magical domination. But now it is time to build a new society in Aerie: an ancient city that seems to have been designed for dragon riders and their dragons.

©2006 Mercedes R. Lackey (P)2019 Tantor

Heroes?

If you are a fan of heroes, especially male main character heroes these aren't the books for you. The main character more resembles your weak chinned high school history teacher than a hero. Very annoying to see your hero screaming or crying or hiding or running from challenges or being dominated for multiple books. While the female equivalent never fails or backs down. A little too much compensation by a female author. Both can be awesome...cant they?

one Mercedes best

I have truly loved this book from start to finish and the whole series has been awesome. Can't wait for the next book!

A wonderful ride

This was a great story. A little slow at times, but a knock out at the end. It was a good wrap on the series. Make sure to add it to your series.

Excellent series

I put off starting this series for a while but I’m so glad I finally started it. It sucks you in pretty quick and develops in a great way. Loved it.

Lacking an interesting story

Least interesting out of the four books in the series. I wish I could get my book credit back.

A solid ending to a great series.

if you like dragons, dragon riders, and / or ancient Egyptian inspire settings, then Read These Books.

I don't even have the words to express

My disappointment and anger over this book are very high. The first 3 were fantastic, this one is horrible. Thank goodness book 3 left things at a good end point because if I had to slog through this rubbish to get my ending my month would be ruined.

Male lead is fine, but female lead turned into a head case and the only way to make things better would be for her to no longer be with male lead have the maybe become outcast. Everyone else grew and became better people, she regressed to a tantruming child who is going to forcefully get her way.

I'm going to add a bit of spoilers, but not really as I haven't gotten very far. Male lead (sorry, I'm terrible with names) understands that females could be good with dragons, but also understands there's a line of people who already worked with dragons waiting to have a dragon that should receive precedent. However he finds a way for females to have a chance after, they just have to work hard for a year (like everyone else) and apprentice first which gives them a chance to thoroughly learn the ropes too. It's this good enough for female lead? No! She wants her female jousters now! So she undermines him, his position, his authority, and his willingness to compromise and goes to the queen who goes along with it! So our main lead is clearly not as respected as he seemed to be by the end of book 3 and the queen is also being fat more nonsensical and poor at political maneuvering than she was previously presented as being. Now male lead, who's already busy with the role he was forced to take on because no one else is willing and qualified, it's expected to somehow find time to go to the woman who disrespected him to continue their relationship. Nevermind she voluntarily gave up her free time without discussing with him how things were going to go and for the project that is undermining her authority!

In short I hate her now and am generally pissed and am returning this piece of trash of a book.

It seems like it was an attempt at a hoirah feminism, but instead it comes as the opposite. It comes at down with good relationship values, and fairness isn't right, women should get extra privileges. Ick. I'm so mad I'm debating reading any more by this author even though she's supposed to be one of the big names in fantasy.

Well read

I love the series and the reader did an excellent job keeping up with the different voices and tone of the story.

A Solid End To The Series

A meandering but enjoyable final entry in the saga of Kiron, his dragon Avatre, and the whole Altan/Tian ensemble crew.

While I did get impatient with the relationship drama at times, which seemed to grow from nothing, served no real purpose, and then just... ended, the characters were also very nuanced. Even in the depths of Drama, I still enjoyed hearing about developments in their lives. On top of that, the plot itself was interesting enough to keep me engaged at worst, engrossed at best, with a very interesting twist at the end.

Tl;Dr: not perfect, but a solid read and nice end to the Dragon Jousters books.

I hoped for more

I enjoyed this series and all of the characters. This last book wasn’t as exciting as previous ones and I feel like some (maybe unimportant) ends were not tied up. But still enjoyable.

Should have stopped after book 3

This was so disappointing. Did she have it ghost written by the guys who wrote the season 8 of Game of Thrones?