Ultimate Magic (Merlin, #8) (2024)

T.A. Barron does it again with this enchanting and action-filled third book in the Merlin's Dragon series! Ultimate Magic picks up right where Book 2, Doomraga's Revenge, left off, with the threat of the mysterious "darker than dark" evil that's haunting the wonderful world of Avalon. Basilgarrad, everybody's favorite gargantuan emerald green dragon, can barely keep up with the conflict growing in his magical realm. However, in the end, and with the help of a few friends, he might be just be able to save the day! This book will grab you from the start, whirl you around, and leave you, exhilarated, wanting more. With memorable characters, thrills, chills, love, revenge, epic battles, and more, this story has something for everyone.

Si ce n’était pas du fait qu’il en reste seulement deux, je crois que je laisserai tomber cette série. Cela n’a pratiquement plus rien à voir avec Merlin. Ce tome ci terminait le deuxième cycle, alors peut-être que le troisième, et dernier, redonnera un souffle pour la finale, mais ce livre, et ce deuxième cycle en général, ne se compare en rien au premier. Alors que je me serais attendu que la série « vieillisse » en quelque sorte avec le lecteur, au contrainte, cela semble plus enfantin que jamais, de longs dialogues répétitifs, et les fameux objets magiques ou le héro qui arrive de nulle part au bon moment… ouff ça commence à faire beaucoup. Au point où l’on ne s’inquiète plus du sort d’aucun personnage, car on sait que tout finira par s’arranger. Je recommanderai tout de même la lecture du premier cycle, mais la série aurait très bien pu, et peut-être dû s’arrêter là.

"Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality."

"Trouble has many siblings. And like most siblings, they usually appear when you least expect them."

"Some questions must be answered. Others, though, should never be asked."

"People reveal a lot about themselves by how they enter a place. And even more by how they leave."

"Sometimes people will ask a friend to do what they would never ask an enemy."

This book was OK, but I really hated how the author felt the need to bring the love interest, Marnya, back to life.

This book, this particular trilogy within the Merlin saga, has been fine, perhaps even good. But it does not live up to the Lost Years 5 books and I am now wishing they had left it a separate series. Its a good fun read. I just have a few issues, the time thing is always messed up first you spend all this time doing nothing, then everything happens in a week, then you find out its hundreds of years later, but everybody, including the non-magical Krysallus is still around. I just don't like that. Then there is the fact that Barron is great author, but he can't right a love story to save his life, and in many ways they are just distracting. The last thing is making Basil small again at the end, that is ridiculous, and I think its a copout so that these three books could be inserted in the middle of the other two series. Maybe if there was some reason for it, but there wasn't it was just all the sudden at the end, sorry Basil we have to make you tiny, to hide you from the immortals, yeah, right. Aside from those things though the books are fine and fun.

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I really like how the author pulls togther fantasy, fiction, and destiny, and magic. He creates a wonderful world in my mind, and I feel as though the book is happening all around me! I really love this triology and hope you will read it as well! I hope to see more books by this author.

Basil is one of the main characters in the book, and is quite a bit like me. He hates anything that threatens the world around him. He is kind, caring and hopes to stop evil from overrunnig his world as well as those around him. He is also friends with the famous wizard Merlin, who is the arch-enemy of Rhita Gawr, the immortal warlord from the Otherworld.

This book is full of mythical creatures like dragons and faries. I am amazed how some try to help save their world, and others try to speed it towards the end. I like it how Basil, who was once so small, gained a great body to match his heart. I wish to read the fourth book in this series.

The 8th book in T.A. Barron's Merlin series "Ultimate Magic" is the finale to the saga of Merlin's Dragon. In this book, we have the final battle with Doomraga, the return of Merlin & a surprise by Krystallus. Barron's story is as engaging as ever & Basil is his usual treat along with Maryna. The action also moves at a breakneck pace & the separate storylines keep moving long in such a way that when they merge in the climactic finale it doesn't feel forced & is an ending that is acceptable for all parties involved. Granted there is a jump forward in time in the end & a hint of what's to come, but this entry is a nice finale to a trilogy in this series dealing with Camelot's favorite wizard.

This book is scary and exciting. Perfect for Harry Potter fans. One scary part is when Basilgarrad starts to find Doomraga on his own (without Merlin). When Merlin comes back you think Avalon won't end! Doomraga is very terrifying at the end.

I didn't like this series as much as the Lost Years ones.

Merlin's Dragon #3 or Merlin #8. I think this one starts with a jarring continuity error, though I'm too lazy and unmotivated to actually check to make sure. A mediocre end to a mediocre series.

HOLY SNAPPA CRACKAS! AWESOME! FELT LIKE THE WHOLE SECOND BOOK WAS JUST THE PRELUDE OF THIS!!!!!!

This is an excellent trilogy for all ages, even little ones who enjoy a good bedtime story. I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to learning much more about the land of Fincayra in the future.

Ultimately I think this series was a disappointing follow-up to the Lost Years. It's a fine read for a middle-school audience but it doesn't have the 'magic' of the original 5 books.

I can't believe that Basil is going to be small again. Great book

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