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Timothy Y La Puerta Del Dragón (2009)

by Adrienne Kress(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8492688254 (ISBN13: 9788492688258)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Pegasus

series

Alex and the Ironic Gentleman

review 1: I'd like to, in actuality, give this book two and a half stars, because it wasn't so bad as to garner a two, but also, wouldn't quite make three. Alex and the Ironic Gentleman was cute, witty, and highly enjoyable to read. I mentioned it to a few people, because I thought it was worth mentioning. However, its sequel did not live up to the first book. I felt this book tried too hard to be funny, and it just lost its appeal as a result. Shame really. :( Ah well, you can't win with them all I suppose.
review 2: How would you like it if every teacher you met was afraid of you? Timothy has been expelled from every school in his city. And he knows it's not really because he stuffed a student into a locker, put dog poo in a teacher's briefcase or organized a student p... morerotest. It's because he's smarter than adults and it scares them. And so, Timothy ends up at his father's workplace instead of going to school and becomes (quite accidentally) the CEO's intern, with the job of helping the CEO, Evans Bore, understand why he has no friends. Things get even stranger for Timothy when his father goes on a business trip and he has to stay with his next door neighbour, Mr. Balzagette. It's then that Timothy learns that Mr. Shen, an employee of Evans Bore, is a dragon who has taken human form and is slave to anyone holds a magical golden key. The dragon's only way to freedom (and to return to his dragon form) is to walk under the Dragon's Gate in China with the person who holds the golden key. Suddenly Timothy finds himself on a mission to get Mr. Shen back to China -- and stay alive. Mysterious black cabs are trying to run him over, ninjas and violent monks are following him -- and Timothy isn't even sure if he really cares about the dragon at all. I think this would be a great book to recommend to kids looking for an "adventure" novel -- there's travel to new, unknown places, mysterious characters, a "quest" and the satisfying happy ending. And while there's also the usual changes in the protagonist -- Timothy discovers more about himself, learns to care for and accept others -- the book isn't overly didactic and doesn't resolve everything perfectly so that the plot line is slightly more believable. In general, I had fun reading this and found the writing and storyline quite good. less

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