Pendragon The Merchant Of Death
| by D. J. MacHale
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▼Tags ▼LibraryThing Recommendations ▼Member recommendations None Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. date ▼ | votes Showing 1-5 of 60 (next | show all)2.75 If you are looking for an Arthur Pendragon/Camelot story this is not for you. This book took me a while to get into. I wasn't clicking with the whole journal style. It was very inconsistent. One moment it felt like a first-person omniscient narration and then other times it was first-person limited. Also, when Bobby would talk directly to Mark in the journals it really stopped the flow of the story. It got better as it progressed, but it did take me over 100 pages (1/3) of the book to sorta get into the story. ( ) afrozenbookparadise | Apr 22, 2021 | hb 5083mitzi | Jul 23, 2020 | I've had this book and audiobook for ages (we're talking nearly a decade) and just haven't got to them. I was impressed with the amount of world-building and imagination that this first book has. It was loads of fun and a real roller coaster ride. One MacHale started things rolling, the action never stopped. At times, it felt like the narrator was out of breath he was talking so fast. Although I enjoyed the story a lot, I think I would have liked it more when I first bought the books a decade ago. As a matter of fact, I would have loved them as a teenager. ( ) melrailey | Apr 7, 2020 | Definitely a good start to the series. It took a while to get into, but once I started appreciating the plot, I knew I'd found a new series with real promise. Bobby Pendragon is totally confused. One minute, he's ready for a major basketball game and the girl of his dreams has kissed him, and the next, his weird uncle is dragging him off with a cryptic story about saving the world. It's about to get stranger. Bobby's introduction into his first 'territory', Denduron, is not too fast-paced, not too slow. Easy for the reader to slip into. Because Bobby is a Traveler, whether he wants to be or not, and it is his destiny to travel through worlds and times keeping chaos from getting the upper hand. With his two best friends back home on Earth (or actually, 'Second Earth'), reading the journals he sends home, Bobby, his Uncle Press, a warrior girl named Loor, and a knight named Alder must try to mediate an age-old conflict between one tribe enslaved by another. Bobby's narration really makes the book; he comes off as a perfectly real 14-year-old stuck in a wild situation, sometimes brave, sometimes crazy, often scared out of his mind, and not afraid to admit it. I'm definitely looking for the other books in the series next. ( ) booksong | Mar 18, 2020 | I listened to the audio version of this and the narrator wasn't particularly to my liking. I think I would have enjoyed this much more had I read it instead of listened to it. It is on my list of books to introduce to my fourth grader. ( ) SMBrick | Feb 25, 2018 | Showing 1-5 of 60 (next | show all) ▼Published reviews Belongs to SeriesIs contained inThe Merchant of Death [and] The Lost City of Faar by D. J. MacHale Pendragon Complete Collection, Books 1-10 by D. J. MacHale ▼Common Knowledge
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I promised last week that I would provide a book review on a new series I started a couple weeks ago called Pendragon by D.J. Machale. The first book was published in 2002, but for some reason has not received as much credit as Harry Potter did (the first one published in 1997). Perhaps the idea of Harry Potter being British was something that we turned toward, who knows? But I am here today to give you a little insight to the Pendragon series and hopefully pique your interest enough to get you to read it as well.
Pendragon
The Story
- Aug 14, 2019 The Merchant of Death is the first of a ten-book series featuring Bobby Pendragon and his adventures throughout Halla. Disclosure: I am an Amazon affiliate. If you click on a link and decide to buy something I will get pennies for referring you. This in no way changes the price for you.
- Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Merchant of Death - Pendragon 1 Bobby Pendragon is a normal fourteen-year-old, middle class, athletic, teeager. But one night, his mysterious Uncle Press comes to his house and drives to the Bronx.
- THE MERCHANT OF DEATH PENDRAGON QUARTET 01 D. MacHale Contents Acknowledgments Journal #1 Denduron Second Earth Journal #1 (continued).
- All of the Travelers, Kasha, Aja Killian, Patrick Mac, Alder, Pendragon, Siry Remudi, Elli Winter, Loor, Vo Spader, and Gunny, also arrive. He is the first one to arrive there. He appears in The Merchant of Death, The Lost City of Faar, Raven Rise, and The Soldiers of Halla. Read more about Press here.
The story takes place in a small town/city/suburb in the United States. It starts with following the Main Character, Bobby Pendragon, a 14-year old high school basketball player who has no cares in the world. Bobby is a popular boy in school but his best friend, Mark, is nerdy and different. Bobby is getting ready to go to a very important basketball game and just as he is about to leave the house a girl, Courtney, shows up at his doorstep. This is what the readers are introduced to, not a whole lot happens because Machale is setting the character stage.
Sep 01, 2002 The Merchant of Death. Journal #1: Denduron. I hope you're reading this, Mark. Heck, I hope anybody's. Reading this because the only thing that's keeping me from going totally off my nut right now is getting this all down on paper so that someday, when it's all over, it'll help prove that I'm not a total whack job.
Machale does a fantastic job of not providing too much about the characters to where we end up getting bored of them too quickly. This is especially interesting to me because I find too many books that the first 100 pages are a complete bore because the author has decided to tell me too much of the past without revealing enough of the present or future.
Moving on.
The story takes off pretty quickly after Courtney shows up. Bobby’s Uncle Press shows up and takes him off on his motorcycle to an abandoned subway station. The story continues with Bobby using a type of portal called a flume to travel to another territory (a type of world). Soon after arriving, and commence drama, Bobby finds out he is a traveler, which is not fully explained but he is basically someone who is destined to travel between territories and assist the territories during dark times.
Now this is all special and whatnot but what makes this book stand out over all the other books about young teenagers, is that it is written from the POV of Bobby to his friends Mark and Courtney. Bobby writes to them in journals throughout his adventures, recapping what he has done since he has written or seen them last. Machale actually numbers the journals so that the readers don’t get lost and can understand how many he has written to his friends. This way of writing is not a common form of separating out a novel but I like it.
So anyway, loads of weird stuff happens that I can’t go into full detail on or else I would be giving too much away. Bobby finds himself in a village of people called the Milago, they are basically slaves of the people called the Bedoowan (big bad dudes). Bobby is expected to assist the Milago in getting out from their enslavement and overcome their struggles but he must accept his new life in order to help them.
The story has its own ups and downs where the MC makes stupid mistakes, assumes too much, but eventually redeems himself. Machale introduces many new creatures to the world of stories. I think a lot more will be explained as the books go on but the first one definitely captured my attention. I want to know what happens to Bobby, to Uncle Press, to Courtney, and to Mark. Why is he a traveler? I have so many questions and I am sure this review did you no justice because you’ve never read it before, but I implore you to do so.
The Characters
Bobby Pendragon- is the main character. The story, mostly, takes place from his point of view through journals that he writes to his two best friends, Mark and Courtney.
Mark- is a side character that gets his own POV from time to time and only then has to share with Courtney. He doesn’t add much to the story but gives the readers a character who helps tidy up the story.
Courtney- is the other side character that shares POV moments with Mark intermittently. She has less to give to the story but that may change as I get further into the books.
Everyone else- there is the comic relief that is Uncle Press, the hard-ass that is Loor, and the goofy side-kick that is Alder. They are Bobby’s peeps when he is not on Earth. They move the plot along and provide any new information that Bobby, and subsequently the readers, need.
Originality
Pendragon Book One The Merchant Of Death
The originality score for the Pendragon series ranks pretty high or well for me it does. There aren’t many books or series that can be published without being compared to a book or series that already exists (Twilight will be forever compared to everything for some reason). Machale has done an excellent job of taking his readers into a different set of story all together. We haven’t ever been to the different territories before or anything similar to them but now we get to explore them. I look forward to reading his other books and letting you all know how they turn out. 🙂
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Overall
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Machale wrote ten books in the Pendragon series, each taking place in a new territory with a new problem. I don’t plan on writing a review for each book that I read, though I might, but I will write a final review going over the entire series. I don’t want to spoil too much of the series for anyone who plans on reading it or who might read it in the future.