The Last Dragonlord is the first in a series of books written by Joanne Bertin

Joanne Bertin

Joanne Bertin was born in 1953 in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, USA. She writes science fiction/fantasy novels in addition to being employed...

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Human

Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...

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Dragon

A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern...

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Dragonlord

Dragonlord or Dragon Lord may refer to:* DragonLord Enterprises, Inc., the gaming/robotics/artificial intelligence company* Dragon Lord, a 1982 Hong Kong kung fu film starring Jackie Chan* Dragonlord , the American symphonic black metal band...

s - beings which have both human and dragon souls and can change from human to dragon and vice versa at will.

The Last Dragonlord refers to a central character of the book, Linden Rathan, so called because he is the last dragonlord to have been "born" in more than 600 years. He is also the only dragonlord without a soultwin, which is the other half of his dragon and human souls.

The Last Dragonlord was published in 1998. It was followed by a sequel, Dragon and Phoenix

Dragon and Phoenix

"Dragon and Phoenix" is the second of the Dragonlord series by Joanne Bertin and was published in 1999. It takes place in a world of truehumans, truedragons, and dragonlords - beings which have both human and dragon souls and can change from human to dragon and vice versa at will...

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Review of the Last Dragonlord at futurefiction.com