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| Raven Rise (Pendragon) | 
 enlarge | Author: D. J. Machale
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 1836
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.7
ISBN: 1416914188
EAN: 9781416914181
ASIN: 1416914188
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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 the adventure May 23, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
ive been reading pendragon since i was in 6th grade and it has held my intrest all throughout my high school years. im so excited for this new one! the last one will be amazing.
 The Final Battle for Halla is On! June 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bobby Pendragon has grown up. It's been such a difficult ride for the young man who didn't ask for the job of Lead Traveler. He wants to understand who he is, why he is in this seemingly endless battle with Saint Dane, and why he can't just give up. Book Nine finds Bobby enjoying his retirement. The flumes of Ibara and Veelox are buried under rocks and concrete. Saint Dane is trapped. Bobby misses his friends and fellow travelers, but he feels like he's made the ultimate sacrifice to safeguard Halla.
He must also admit that, to be honest, there were selfish reasons for staying on Ibara. He was tired of the battle. He didn't want to do this anymore. He just didn't understand who all his enemies were.
The first part of the book went just a little slower than I liked. Too many pages of Bobby being happy on Ibara, too many descriptions of Bobby finding Dado body parts to throw into the sea, of how he was building new homes and rebuilding Ibara in general. Maybe this was supposed to help build tension for later on when he realizes that everything was not as perfect as he thought (I mean, this is not a spoiler: there's still one more book to go, for goodness sake!) But for building tension? That didn't work.
On the Pendragon website I read on some of the message boards that people think this book is a "filler" book, that the author contracted to write a certain number of books and this one was sort of unnnecessary (I have to agree that dedicating pages and pages to fighting with quigs was over the top). A lot happens in this book, too much to be considered totally filler. (Still, the book could have been shorter by condensing a lot of that early stuff, or keep the book this length and advance the story a bit more. I'm afraid the final book will be too packed.)
We still have lots of questions: how come Saint Dane and Nevva Winter can change shape? Couldn't the other travelers conceivibly do the same? Or are Saint Dane and Nevva different somehow? How come Saint Dane knows so much more than the other travelers? Did the previous generation of travelers have those same abilities but they didn't pass the knowledge along to the final generation? Who is behind it all? And so on, and so on, and so on.
Looking forward to the final book.
 Incomplete and Inconsistent June 23, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Raven Rise is the 9th part of the Pendragon saga. From book one, I have been hooked onto D.J. McHale's suspenseful and descriptive writing. However, as the plot dragged on from one territory to the next, only the hope of the signature Pendragon cliffhanger finale kept me turning the pages.
For fans of the Pendragon series, just know that Raven Rise has to be the worst book out of the series yet. Reading this book reminded me of the popular Series of the Unfortunate Events, and its disappointing ending. Like Lemony Snicket, McHale fails to answer in Raven Rise any of the mysteries introduced in the first eight books of the series. Moreover, reading Raven Rise felt like reading three separate books!
However what disappointed me the most in this book was its horrible ending. It felt like all of McHale's writing was leading him up to write one more chapter, and suddenly the book ended. Usually, Pendragon books keep me thinking beyond the storyline, but Raven Rise made me wish I never started it in the first place.
So for first-timers, know that Raven Rise is a disappointing penulimate book to an awesome series. For Pendragon lovers, prepare to be dismayed. And for D.J. McHale, I'd like to leave you with this quote:
"Part of succes is knowing when to stop."
Pendragon June 26, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
My boys are reading each of the books in this series and really enjoying them. They are 13 and 18 and believe me, getting something for the 13 year old to actually sit down and read is not an easy task. Fantastic books - I hope the writer continues the series. The boys are reading them as fast as they are published.
Just what I wanted- Not what I expected June 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The last 3 to 4 chapters of this book are the best of the whole series. Honestly, this book, if you've read the past ones, is a must read.
There isn't an introduction of a whole lot of information but there are times in the book where new things are learned. You'll start to notice that some of the things said in the past book were really [really] important yet did not seem like it at all. At some points of the, the past books that is, some of the things said seem meaningless- nothing but politeness. But, reading this book- with the help of it being pointed out that this has been said before- you'll find out that wasn't so.
Read it!
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