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[Spoilers] The Pendragon Series

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Dalguno
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2446 Posts
June 19 2012 16:33 GMT
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I've been looking for some books to read, or re-read. I thought that maybe I'd go through the Pendragon Series by D.J. Machale again. They were my favorite books for a long time. I always bought the new installments in the series the day they came out and read the new book within a couple of days. I really loved them. Definitely my favorite books growing up.

However, I can't bring myself to read them again because the ending was just so awful, I felt. I'm wondering if anyone else feels the same.

The whole series is essentially leading up to a climactic ending, and that's what I was always expecting. I read them over the space of probably four years, and the whole plot was amazing to me. "This is the way things were meant to be" almost became my motto. Saint Dane always seemed to beat Bobby, no matter what, or at least appear to beat him. Nothing ever came easy. But in The Soldiers of Halla, Bobby and the travelers defeat him so easily in every single battle or fight or whatever.

It felt like I had been cheated. I expected a long, seemingly unwinnable final battle or series of battles that had always taken place between the travelers and Saint Dane, and Bobby somehow pulling it off narrowly in the end. But SD just got beaten badly seemingly without much effort at all. I hated that- it seemed to betray the entire previous 9 books. SD was impossible to defeat, but all of the sudden he's just a whimp. It made the final book seem to be just a victory lap, essentially.

And then there's the whole deal about Solaris (is that what it's called? I can't remember). Figuring out the origins of the travelers and what their lives would be like after the whole ordeal was almost the entire conflict of the book. Every single book in the series leads up to us figuring out the mysteries of the travelers, their beginnings, etc. Solaris seemed like an easy way out and completely uncreative. I remember being extremely disappointed by it. It's been quite some time since I've read them so I can't give any concrete examples- I don't really remember how Solaris worked.

The whole final book was just a huge huge disappointment. The whole series was so amazing and epic, and every book pointed toward the end and created expectations of greatness, but it wasn't delivered, at least I felt. I really do want to read them again because they were so good, but because the ending is so bad I can't bring myself to do it. I would just read the first 9 again, but that just leaves off without that great ending that's expected.

Anyone else have gripes with the books?

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Synwave
Profile Joined July 2009
United States2803 Posts
June 19 2012 17:39 GMT
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Read the first two and realized the author was basically writing soap-opera style. Which is to create expectation but never deliver on it. Im very forgiving with a lot of writing techniques but that is one of them I absolutely refuse to tolerate because I know how it ends. Your description of the ending basically covers it, I just saw it coming a lot sooner in the writing.

It went 10 books o.O?

I imagine the author only completed it because sales were dropping off as readers realized they were being conned. Unfortunate!
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Dalguno
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2446 Posts
June 19 2012 18:12 GMT
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On June 20 2012 02:39 Synwave wrote:
Read the first two and realized the author was basically writing soap-opera style. Which is to create expectation but never deliver on it. Im very forgiving with a lot of writing techniques but that is one of them I absolutely refuse to tolerate because I know how it ends. Your description of the ending basically covers it, I just saw it coming a lot sooner in the writing.

It went 10 books o.O?

I imagine the author only completed it because sales were dropping off as readers realized they were being conned. Unfortunate!


Yeah, but I started them in 5th grade, so you can excuse my lack of criticism. After that I was hooked enough to keep reading.
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The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
June 19 2012 18:50 GMT
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Pendragon is awesome :D
I actually liked the ending because it showed a complete triumph instead of having a close battle that resulted in huge losses and a bittersweet ending (We had that in book 8, sort of ).
Although, I do agree that the last book was probably the worst. Too many new concepts were introduced and not really tied in that well with the rest of the books.
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