Review: #799
Title: The Griffin's Feather
Series: Dragon Rider - 2nd book
Author: Cornelia Funke
Comments: The Griffin’s Feather’s beginning, and granted, the first half of the book, starts out very slow and very hard to get stuck into. The Dragon Rider Ben, is now living in Norway looking after fantasy creatures but unfortunately, one day, a Pegasus arrives with three unhatched eggs with a grave problem. The eggs need to grow larger otherwise the foals inside will suffocate and die, thus Ben and his adopted father, Barnabas, travel in the search of the only thing that can help them, a griffin’s sun-feather. Griffins are cruel and proud creatures, being extremely dangerous. It takes a long while before the group arrives at where the Griffins live, and it takes even longer for the dragons to shine. A huge chunk of the book is spent on Ben worrying about his dragon Firedrake, and their future. It is understandable but that doesn’t make it interesting. However, as the plot moves along, it captures more and more of your attention, although it never feels like it properly built up to a grand finale.
Rating: 6/10