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Daniel and Beatrice Cook are studying Dragonology with Dr Ernest Drake, and are awaiting the hatching of their very own dragon egg. But suddenly their parents have gone missing, an illness is killing dragons and it all smells of evil dragonologist, Alexandra Gorynytchka. Before they know it, the brother, sister and new dragon chick have to deliver Liber Draconis, the dragon diary, and St Petroc's chalice to Dr Drake in Hong Wei, which may hold the secret to the cure. As the back cover reads: ''The future of dragon kind hangs in the balance!''

I hadn't read the first book in the series, but that's alright because most good sequels can be read as stand-alone novels, right? Mmmmmmm . . . well, sort of. The plot is good, perfect for the age range, in fact. But the characters from the first book, e.g. Beatrice and Daniel, aren't properly described (our only indication as to what they look like are the illustrations) and we are never told their ages (apart from Daniel's age being mentioned in the blurb).