No lo recomendaría como una gran novela fantástica, es algo básica y para público juvenil, pero fue rápido de leer y la historia en sí, resulta entretenida. Ideal para unos dibujos, por el tipo de ambientación de la saga en general.

Otro viaje junto a Jaguar y Águila, desmintiendo las dudas y mentiras sobre mitos y leyendas, haciendo real la existencia de seres tales como los Yetis.

Llena de aventura, el libro te mantiene distraído lo suficiente, aunque no me ha gustado tanto como la ciudad de las bestias, la historia está llena de datos interesantes, me encanta la forma en como Isabel te envuelve en la misión de descubrir culturas interesantes, su sentido fantástico, en donde nada es imposible, en donde además existe un punto de reflexión y una metáfora del ser humano en su andar por la etapa de crecimiento de la niñez a la adultez, los protagonistas son en cada nueva aventura, seres más espirituales, humanos, aventureros, audaces y tolerantes a los obstáculos que surgen en la vida.

El reino del dragón rojo, tiene momentos predecibles, pero todo es recompensable con momentos mágicos y emocionantes de los personajes.

الرواية جزء ثاني من مدينة البهائم ..ولكن بعيداً عن عوالم الهنود الحمر وغابات الأمازون .. هنا يذهب ألكس وناديا وكات إلى أرض الهنود الحقيقيين ، ثم إلى جبال الهيمالايا حيث مملكة التنين الذهبي التي تعيش حياة قديمة لم تلوثها التكنولوجيا والحضارة الحديثة بعد .. وسط الرهبان البوذيين والأديرة وهضبة التبت المقدسة.

الرواية من نوع المغامرات والفانتازيا ويظهر فيها الإمكانيات الروحية للرهبان البوذيين وقدراتهم القتالية الخاصة ، وحبهم حتى لأعدائهم وكرههم للقتل .. وشخصياً أستمتع بالحضارات القديمة والمعتقدات الدينية للقارة الأسيوية أكثر من غيرها من القارات.. لذلك وجدت هذا الجزء أفضل وأكثر إمتاعاً من سابقه.

لا أنصح بقراءة هذه الرواية قبل مدينة البهائم بالطبع لأن هناك إرتباط كبير بالجزء السابق.

(Qué despiste). Esta vez nos vamos al Himalaya con el equipo del International Geographic y los invitados de la escritora Kate Cold: su nieto y su amiga del Amazonas. Ha sido incluso más espiritual que el anterior. Estos libros parecen hablar de cómo sus protagonistas se buscan a sí mismos mientras corren aventuras increíbles en los lugares más remotos del planeta, haciéndonos creer que la Tierra es un lugar mucho más mágico de lo que percibimos.

I haven't really finished this book, but I have only 20 pages to go and will probably finish them tonight as I have the test on it tommorow.

Let's see... this book. Meh.

If you want to read this book, know two things; first off, if you have finished reading the 50 page first chapter, you have accomplished a feat worthy of applaud. The first chapter = bad.

But the rest of the book is fairly tolerable. The second thing is that Isabel Allende is no genius. She took a cliché topic, wasted it on "The City of the Beasts" and then re-wasted it on "The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon." Fine, she intended this to be a young adult book. I think she misreads the name "young adult." Most 14 year olds will not be in for a novel like this; some of its ideas are so abstract (yet cliché, cliché, cliché) that they might bore some. She took a young adult topic and wrote how she is accostumed to write. Adult bestseller. Which is NOT young adult. A neat explanation to why this book did not become a bestseller.

What I think is funny is that Isabel Allende is so obvious in her desperate desire to be considered something more than an "author of bestsellers." That's funny.

I'm sorry that this review has been so... inconclusive. So I guess I should round it up. What this book is is a good topic that we have all read before, bad writing that we have all read before, yet it's not the kind of book that is simply impossible to finish. Not at all. In some parts, it was fairly amusing, although entertaining might be a stretch. Obvious things are unecessarily repeated every 100 pages, provoking a "dude, do you friggin' have Alzheimer's? You already said that!" The unrealistically obvious characters and names can be obnoxious at times.

So, in conclusion, you could do better than pick this book. But it won't be suicidal. Although if you read "The City of the Beasts" it could be debatable. (Do you notice how even the TITLES are similar? How easy is that?)

La seconda avventura di Aquila e Giaguaro, una lettura piacevole e divertente, un libro scritto per ragazzi ma che si fa leggere tranquillamente anche dagli adulti. Splendida la descrizione di un piccolo mondo estraneo alle comodità odierne, l'unico paese al mondo in cui l'ecologia era molto più importante dell'economia. Stupende fotografie del pensiero buddista, che la Allende racconta con termini elementari.
"Il cambiamento deve essere volontario e non imposto. Tutti possiamo cambiare, ma nessuno può obbligarci a farlo."
"Quante volte ti ho detto di non credere a tutto quello che senti? Cerca la tua di verità."
"Affronta gli ostacoli a mano amano che ti si presentano: non sprecare energie per paura di quello che ti può accadere dopo."

Me gustó mucho la relación de Águila y Jaguar , y como se desarrollaron como personajes, también Pame y su valentía, me gustó más que el primero

رواية خيالية تدور احداثها في مملكة نائية قرب جبال الهمالايا حيث يسعى مجموعة من المغامرين الحصول على تنين سحري له مزايا خارقة. لم تعجبني الرواية جدا وذلك لرتابة الأحداث وافتقار الأسلوب للتشويق.

This was also super super fun, I always liked stories that are set in the world of Tibet or Mongolia so this was awesome.

Alexander Cold, Kate Cold and Nadia Santos are off again but this time to find more information on a secret Golden Dragon statue, but once again things get out of control when Nadia and some girls from the village and other neighboring villages get stolen form a creepy sect of a religious cult originally from India.

Alexander is determined to find out why this is happening now, and why this creepy American man name Tex Armadillo is also their snooping around.

While a loyal Monk and the next Emperor of the kingdom make friends with real Yetis and soon become friends with Alexander and Nadia due to her escape from the cult.

While Kate tracks them down, Alexandr and Nadia get to meet the Yetis while the Monk and Prince unfold the mysteries of a inside job of taking the Golden Dragon through a cunning woman who has posed as a landscaper for the older Emperor and is actually tricking him and paying Tex to help her steel it from the kingdom.

With a fighting Monk and Prince and full Yeti Army, Alexander and Nadia go to keep the statue from leaving the country and things happen.

a new Emperor is crowned and a new wife, Alexander, Nadia and Kate are now very important guests and the bad lady is now a primate monk.

This was my favorite out of the three books, I enjoyed this so, so much!

representation for the cultures mentioned was very accurate.

In this long novel, full of “goodies” and “baddies”, action, dastardly deeds, and magic, Allende has created a fantasy story for children – a mix of “Indiana Jones” meets Buddhist philosophy! Although to an adult reader it is full of stereotypical characters, clichés, and rather naïvely expressed philosophical, religious, ecological, and political homilies, I could see its appeal to young readers, say 9-12 year olds. However, I do doubt that it would be as likely to hold the attention of older adolescents.
Allende uses the various characters with their different backgrounds to explore differing ethical, cultural, ethnic and religious norms in a way which is, I think, aimed at educating, and encouraging understanding and tolerance in her young readers. Within the context of the story, history, politics and economics are treated in a similar way but I found myself thinking that she used this device rather too often, and therefore wonder whether she was more likely to bore rather than to educate.
If you are able to suspend disbelief, enter into a world of fantasy and succumb to this derring-do adventure in the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, this is an enjoyable, undemanding read. It is the second book in her trilogy for children but can certainly be read as a stand-alone story.

It is the second in Isabel Allende’s trilogy of children books (or young adult books if you wish to use that derogatory, fascist term). I have read them all since, I picked up the first part after heaving read the excellent House of Spirit. I wanted to read more of her work and this trilogy was her second most popular work. I finished the series mainly because I feel the need to finish every series that I start, in this case the quality of the series was far from my main motivation. This reminded me why I dislike children books even back when I was a child, they are simply derogatory and I am not that smart of a person. I can only imagine how an intelligent child feels like when being insulted like this. It is simply not challenging in any way, it doesn’t make you think and the stories are always painfully obvious. This series tries to infuse the books with some relevant environmental and political, cultural ideas but they are so mundane and political correct that they simply make me sick. Globalism isn’t always the right way, globalism is simply something that is happening, I am sick of all the communist anti-bullshit. I am not interested in explaining the benefits of a free market here and the downsides of many of the regulations often proposed. Of course there is value in other cultures, how retarded do you think that we are, do you seriously think that we still consider people with other cultural backgrounds to be savages. There might be people out there who think so but I doubt that this book will open up their eyes. I am tired of people always trying to fool us into believing that everything was just going perfectly everywhere until evil, globalistic western scum started destroying their global culture. Read a history book, I can assure you that it wasn’t paradise on earth before 1960 in Asia. Yes, living conditions have improved since then, it is far from perfect now over there but it sure as hell wasn’t all sunshine and smiles before.
I am assuming that the country where this story takes place is Bhutan, you should read up about Bhutan it is a pretty funky place. Amongst other things it is the only kingdom ever where the king choose himself to abolish kingship in order to pave the way for democracy. I might be wrong that she is referencing Bhutan, even with my limited knowledge of Buddhism, I have to question some of her claims to such extent that I am beginning to think that her research was limited to just making up things. I am all for that but please don’t try to explain an existing religion if you are just making stuff up ok? I do not remember all of my specific complaints. I question the idea of auras existing within Buddhism. Yes, there are images originating from Bhutan which show Buddha surrounded by what could be described as aura. I haven’t been capable of finding a single mention of aura in reference to Buddhism. The idea of aura originated in the 19th century in the west. Also I question the claim that astral projection is a power generally possessed by people capable of very deep mediation, occasionally yes as a side effect, that I believe but as a required integral part, this I question.
As far as the story itself is concerned, like I mentioned before it is moronic all the way, characters, progression, settings. Seriously it is just painful. Maybe Isabel Allende wanted some of that sweet Harry Potter money who knows? I fear for the future of mankind if this is how kids are treated these days. I am sure that Hollywood would love to make a movie of this.

Conclussion: You know the parents who always brag about how smart their children are, which is every parent that I have ever met. Seriously everyone’s children are geniuses. I have the feeling that this would make a nice gift for their children.

Es un libro asombroso y muy entretenido