Writing wise the book was light and simple. I think 7+ ages will all enjoy it, with plenty of flowery prose to sparkle the imagination, especially with the Dragon Realm.

Brimming with warmth and originality, DRAGON MOUNTAIN combines edge-of-your-seat adventure, laugh-out-loud humour andhugelyexciting dragons to create a sweeping fantasy that will captivate readers of all ages.’ – Catherine Doyle , author of THE STORM KEEPER��S ISLAND The Dragon Realm continues its slow (but dangerous) collapse into the human realm, and now humans and dragons have to learn to live with one another (and deal with things falling from the sky, like mountains...) Unfortunately, not everyone wants to live together - and humans and dragons are trying to control the situation and each other. There was aslo so much action in this book, the characters are constantly getting up to mischief both in the dragon realm and the human realm!! This book just flew by for me and I couldn't believe it when the audiobook was over! Also watching the characters take initiative and use each of their strengths to help the group problem solve was so great to read! We follow Billy as he goes to a summer camp in the "middle of nowhere" china, and there he befriends Dylan, Charlotte and Ling-Fei (which first of all these four have the best friendship and was such a joy to read about!!) and they discover they can enter a magical mountain where they meet 4 dragons, who they bond with and have to team up with them to help prevent the dragon of death from taking over the world!! In almost every situation, every character gets to make a comment. This may not sound like a problem, but once other important characters are introduced, you end up with scenes where 8 characters all say essentially the same thing one after the other because everyone has to have their time to talk.They are far too willing to believe everything that is told to them without any real doubts, hesitations or questions. Also, there is a lot of times when the characters, out of nowhere, just suddenly know what to do to solve a problem even though its something they've never done before, seen done or been told about and amazingly it works. Instead they search for a new home for the dragons, which involves invoking the ghost of the first dragon that ever existed, which leads to danger, frustration, adventure, superpowers and a twist that will change the world forever....

Most of the stories are fairly simple, and the animation is a hugely mixed bag, but there are some compelling elements to be had amongst it. Feathers and Alex are two characters who are the most interesting, as having a dragon as a sort of support animal is both a new and rich concept that I hope will be explored further. Dragon Mountain is the first in a series of stories by Katie and Kevin Tsang which sees our four protagonists team up with a group of dragons who need their help to save their world and the human world. Realms away, lost in time, a darkness is slowly awakening as the Dragon of Death gradually regains the strength and power it once lost. Will our protagonists and their dragon companions have the strength, cunning and teamwork required to stave off its coming? The fourth adventure in the ROARsome DRAGON REALM series for 9+ readers! Perfect for fans of nail-biting mysteries and cinematic battles. My Approval: Xing has potential, but I feel is the most vulnerable dragon of this four, Buttons should apply to become human, Tank is an OG that the other three should envy, and Spark is basically Saphira with Antlers and a voice box. (5/10), (3/10), (8/10), (6/10).

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This is a last hurrah for the Dragon Realm setting as the two worlds are starting to tear apart and bleed into each other. In the 4th book, damage done to the fabric of the universe has seen dragons falling through the holes into the human world. World leaders are most unimpressed by this and have a meeting with the children who seem to have the ability to control these big scary entities. The writing style was very engaging and the story had a very good rhythm, you literally cannot get bored as you jump from one action to the next one and twists and turns and changes and it won’t stop getting better. I found it very easy to connect with the characters, there are four kids who are the protagonists with very different personalities, so it makes it fun and natural to connect with them and their struggles as a group. However, there were also parts of the story I did not get along with as well as expected. First of all, there is the overall impression that everything needs to be harmonic, nearly at all times. If there is any kind of conflict popping up, it is immediately smoothed out. And yes we accept each other as we are. We never get upset with each other. And, yes, we co-operate at all times, we understand, even as children, how important team work is. And so we co-operate at all cost. As an enormous fan of How to Train Your Dragon franchise I was, like many others, not very optimistic, even doubtful for this show when it was first revealed.