Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Pendragon, Book Nine, Raven Rise

As you may know, Pendragon is a book that contains lots of violence, a little bit of humor, and depression. But it also has action. Lots of action. Like a whole ton of action. In fact, if I made a list of every action packed part in the book, the list would go on forever (almost). Now, here's an example of something that I would surely put on that list:

At one point in book nine, the main character, Pendragon, is faced with a carnivorous mutant bear-thingy. At first, using it's sharp claws, the mutant bear-thingy makes a big cut in his arm, making him weaker (the wound later caused him to pass out from blood loss). But using his non-injured hand, Pendragon grabs a black magic wand-like weapon, that was lying on the ground nearby, and manages to use it to impale the beast in the eye, and puncture it's brain, making it squeal in pain, and fall down, dead. Pendragon had won the battle! But wait! He wasn't done yet! He walked over to the body of the beast, took the black weapon out of its eye, and plunged it into it's chest, multiple times, just to make sure it was dead.  

So, at least now you know how sick, and disgusting the action is in Pendragon. Actually, I just used that example, because it's probably one of the most disgusting parts in the book, but still. You also now know that, when I said that Pendragon had humor, violence, and all those other things, I forgot to mention that it also had sick, disgusting violence. Oh, and I hope my disgusting descriptions didn't make YOU pass out (LOL).

1 comment:

  1. Bowen,

    Now THAT is the way to present a personal connection to the text! I was laughing hysterically while I read.

    Also, you did a great job building the tension in conjunction with the elevating action.

    You're writing rocks!

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