Kingdom of the Golden Dragon 9780060589448 Used / Pre-owned

from Nandakishore_Varma

The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon by bestselling author Isabel Allende is, quite simply put, a terribly bad book. The plot is utterly predictable and cliched; the characters uninteresting and uni-dimensional; and the writing bored me to tears (it may be better in the original Spanish, but I very m...

from Floratina

READ IN DUTCHI had heard so many good reviews about Isabel Allende, so I was curious to read some of her books. Well, that didn't turn out right, did it?Part of the blame is on me though. I got this book from my library and had somehow missed it was the second part of the Eagle & Jaguar Trilogy. ...

from wiremonkey

This time Alex Cold and Nadia find themselves in the Forbidden Kingdom with Kate Cold, the intrepid journalist who also happens to be Alex's Grandmother. The novel takes place a year after the first book and now Nadia is living in New York with Kate and Alex has caught the travelling bug. They fi...

from IsaacW

This is a great sequel to City of the Beasts! In this fantastic book I found it much easier to get in to than in the first book. Alexander and Nadia once again go on a journey with Alexander's grandmother and International Geographic but this time they are going to the middle of the Himalayas in ...

from MrsRich

A little tedious and very predictable. It reminded me of a Clive Cussler novel with Buddhist culture mixed in for an interesting lesson.