A Darkness of Dragons
S.A. Patrick
Subjects
- Fantasy Worlds - awesome adventures of magic and mystery
- Action Adventures - chills, thrills and plenty of spills
Average rating
In a world of dragons, song-spells, pipers and battles…
Patch Brightwater is in disgrace. Thrown in jail for playing a forbidden spell, he is no one’s idea of a hero. But then he discovers a deadly truth – the evil Piper of Hamelyn is on the loose. With the help of Wren, a girl cursed to live as a rat, and Barver, a fire-breathing dracogriff, Patch must stop the Piper sparking the biggest battle of them all.
Three accidental heroes versus one legendary villain…an epic adventure is born.
A perfectly pitched fantasy adventure for readers aged 9+ and for fans of The Hobbit and How to Train Your Dragon.
It was a Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month in 2018.
Reviews
It was great!
Viscountess Rapunzel Pinkerton 03.09.2024
It was mysterious and calm at the same time
Anonymous 30.08.2023
I loved 'A Darkness Of Dragons', it's a very good book and has inspired me to write a lot more books myself!
Viscountess Rapunzel Pinkerton 26.05.2023
I liked Wren the most and I would recommend it.
Duchess Rose Mildew 01.10.2022
l liked this book because how adventurous it was. Patch Brightwater is a piper and has played a forbidden song called the Dance a is thrown in jail. He has found a girl called Wren who was cursed by a sorcerer to live as a rat. A week later the dragons come to kill the evil Hamelyn piper which is a fake and the real hamelyn piper is free. My favourite character is Barver a dracogriff
Baroness Diamond Dangerous 05.08.2022
This book is amazing but a bit scary in places.It has friendship and love it is imaginative in a really good way!
General Sunny Armadillo 27.06.2022
I liked this because it shows how the world has different options on tinges but sometimes they don't apprecaite your opines
Anonymous 30.12.2021
I really enjoyed this fictional story about a piper who is imprisoned for playing a forbidden song on his pipe. It is very exciting but it has some frightening parts so I would recommend this for children over 8 years
Lord Dragon Vampire 01.09.2021
Really good book, and a good main friendship. I liked the way that all of the main characters had interesting backstories that we figure out over time.
Professor Crocodile Possum 26.08.2021
It was serious yet funny
Captain Pudsey Armchair 17.08.2021
Amazing book love to be a piper myself amazing piping.
Queen Harmonica Rollercoaster 12.08.2021
This is an exciting adventure book filled with cliffhangers after every chapter. Although some parts were slightly frightening, it is overall a great read. I would highly recommend reading it.
Anonymous 13.07.2021
it was good
Professor Slip Dalmatian 18.10.2020
I really enjoyed this story! I liked the idea of the Pipers, and the black diamonds!
Superintendent River Starlight 28.08.2020
I think the book A Darkness of Dragons is an excellent book to read as there was a lot of adventure and twist and turns in the story. My favourite character is a boy called Patch Brightwater who is in disgrace as he plays a forbidden ( that was banned) and finds himself in trouble. The book really interested me because it gradually introduced new characters like a girl named Wren (who was forced to live with a curse and a dracogriff / griffin). I would recommend this book to 9 years and older as this had mixed emotions like sad, happy, scared and a lot of excitement.
Judge Harmonica Godzilla 27.08.2020
Darkness of Dragons is great! I love Wren as she is such a kind and quirky character. I can't wait to read book 2!
Inspector Pongo Teacup 26.08.2020
This book was very fun and adventurous. It was set in a magical world full of mythical beasts on a quest to save the world from the dreaded Hamelyn Piper!
Lord Cornetto O’Doughnut 13.08.2020
This book was my favourite . I had it as a price of homework and it was funny. In this book, patch is in jail for playing a forbidden time and then breaks out with the lies piper meeting a eat who is a human and a Dragon . Then tried to save the world from the lies piper himswlf.
Anonymous 11.08.2020
This book starts with a piper who uses an illegal song to try to save a village from thousands of rats. Patch fails and is arrested by the elite pipers, but not without taking a cursed human, cursed to be a rat, who contacted Patch by writing chalk on a wall. He teaches her Merisax sign language in prison and Patch and Wren become friends. When thousands of dragons come demanding to have the Hamelyn Piper, the worst piper in history who abducted and killed human and dragon children with his piping skills. When he is taken, Patch escapes, after taking off then Hamelyn Piper's mask that stopped him talking and piping and hearing that the prisoner is not the Hamelyn Piper. Along with a dracogriff and Wren the rat, Patch tracks the Hamelyn Piper to a gathering of people, where he is using black diamond pipes (an illegal substance) to make a piper army with his legendary piping skills. However, Patch wears the mask inside out, stopping him being affected by the piping. He destroys the pipes and saves the pipers, but the Hamelyn Piper escapes.
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