Space Dragons

Written by Robin Bennett ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Published by     Monster Books (19 Jun. 2019) Genre Fantasy & Magic, Children's Books Pages 272 ASIN B0BLHVKZLC ISBN-10 1999884426 ISBN-13 978-1999884420 For readers aged 8 - 12 years

My thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for the invitation to join the blog tour for the recently published children's fantasy adventure Space Dragons, and to author Robin Bennett for a free hardback copy of this book to review.

There is an amazing giveaway to accompany this Blog Tour. At the bottom of the page you'll find a raffle to win one of ten hardback copies of Space Dragons.

I read this book for this year's #20BooksOfSummer challenge in a bid to reduce my ever increasing To Be Read pile.

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The blurb:

Space Dragons

If Stan Pollux had known he would be spending his summer holidays in the outer reaches of our solar system, he would have put on different underpants.

But when he gets kidnapped by the Planet Dragon Mercury, most things suddenly seem small and insignificant. Stan finds himself in a universe of dragons who had once ruled the skies as gods: Mars, Venus, Saturn and even Uranus way out back. This is shaping up to be the best summer holiday in the history of the cosmos until Stan discovers his stupid sister is missing and that Pluto (AKA Hades) is trying to use her to destroy the Solar System. And it will be all Stan’s fault if he doesn’t get Poppy back.

So, all Stan has to do is learn how to fight like a hero in space armour, defeat the dragon god of the Underworld, Hades, rescue his sister and save the world. All before his parents realise she is missing.

Children's Adventure Story   

My thoughts:

I was drawn to this book because of the slightly scary cover and the humorous first paragraph of the blurb. We should all be suitably attired, to avoid wardrobe malfunctions or other embarrassment, when undertaking serious tasks requiring our full attention!

I was also delighted to find that the hardback copy comes with a Monster Books medallion on its spine.

The story is about an eleven-year-old boy called Stan Pollux. Stan has a little sister, Poppy, who is five years old. They don't always get on, and Stan doesn't like her in his room or touching his belongings. Stan and Poppy live with their parents on the edge of the village and go to the local school. The school bully has been picking on Stan for some time, and matters have been made worse because Poppy once intervened on his behalf, causing Stan great embarrassment. Stan seems to blame Poppy for all of his troubles.

The summer holidays have just begun, and Poppy has been in Stan's room, where she knocked over his telescope. He is furious with her when he thinks it is broken. He looks through the lens and sees something which frightens him. This causes him to sleep badly. The next evening he takes his telescope into the garden to get a better look at something strange in the sky, and is kidnapped!

Poppy has seen Stan disappear from the garden. One minute he was there, and the next he wasn't! She gathers her courage, and a crystal she took from Stan's room when she knocked over his telescope, and goes into the garden, where she is also kidnapped, but by a more sinister force.

Stan, with the help of his new friends, the space dragons, must save the world and his little sister, from Hades and the Titans. Hooked from the first line, I found Space Dragons to be entertaining, well-written, and funny on a level that will definitely appeal to its intended audience. Younger readers will also be able to identify with the main characters, Stan and Poppy, and their relationship.

I loved that each chapter begins with its own explanatory note, particularly the ones which defined the planets. I felt I was learning something, as well as enjoying a rip-roaringly gripping adventure story.

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Author Bio – Robin Bennett

Robin Bennett is an author and entrepreneur who has written several books for children, adults, and everything in between. Listed in the Who’s Who of British Business Excellence at 29, his 2016 documentary "Fantastic Britain", about the British obsession with fantasy and folklore, won best foreign feature at the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards, and his first book for young adults, Picus the Thief, won the Writer's News Indie Published Book of the Year Award in 2012. Robin is also a director at Firefly Press.

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