Kisah kelima petualangan Lief, Barda, dan Jasmine untuk menemukan kembali permata-permata dari Sabuk Deltora.Ketiga sekawan telah berhasil mendapatkan kembali Lapis Lazuli. Dengan masih dikejar kedua Carn, prajurit Kelabu yg membuntuti mereka bagaikan anjing pemburu.Mereka bertiga sampai di hutan aneh, dengan pohon-pohon serupa. Tumbuh tegak memanjang ke atas, dengan kedua batang utama juga menunjuk ke langit. Di tengah-tengah tempat tersebut, ada sebuah kolam kecil bundar dengan sebuah lempeng kuningan pudar ditempel pada salah satu batu. Lempeng tersebut bertuliskan: MATA AIR IMPIAN Minumlah orang asing yang lembut, dan selamat datang.Semua yang berniat jahat harap berhati-hati.Karena minum dari mata air impian, Lief bermimpi yang menyedihkan dan itu menyebabkan Lief ingin kembali ke rumahnya.Apa yang diimpikan Lief? Dan itu belum semua. Masih ada suku gnome pegunungan yg pintar namun licik. Masih ada pula suku Kin, sosok mirip naga bersayap, yang doyan makan daun dan biji Boolong.Dan monster kodok raksasa rakus-pemakan-lalat-mati-yang-gemuk. Monster bernama Gellick. Sekutu Raja Bayangan, dan perjanjian rahasia Gellick dgn Raja Bayangan yg membuat pasukan Pengawal Kelabu sangat ditakuti.Gellick menempatkan Emerald yg Agung di kepalanya, untuk mencegah siapa pun untuk merebutnya. Dan itu saja belum cukup. Gellick berada di ruang harta rahasia para gnome pegunungan, jauh di dalam.Di jantung Gunung Kengeriann...Bagaimana Lief, Barda, n Jasmine menembus smua rintangan tersebut untuk merebut kembali Emerald, simbol kepercayaan.
It is a comparison book as books such as other Deltora Quest books.They are all interesting and a good book to read.The characters are Lief,Barda,and Jasmine.Lief is the main character in the book.He is all ways funny but heroic.He is a very honest man.Barda,a very inpatient troll.Finally,Jasmine, a cleanliness-freak girl.She always complains about her skirt had gotten dirty and stuffs like that.Togetther,they stop the world from a monster,Gellik.I felt worried after reading this book as the last sentence said,"he prayed that the wait would not be too long,"said Lief.The problems are that they need to find 7 gems to the belt of Deltora to stop the evil Shadow lord from destroying the world.The moral of the story is that a person had to be respectful.A wizard wanted to learned a magic from the Shadow lord but the wizard says"Hurry up and teach me,you fool!"Once the lord had heard it,he turned the wizard to a old frog.My feeling and the best part of the story after reading the story was that as the heroes were so up sad that their friend named Frano was turned to a big spider.But actually,he reflected the magic back from the wizard and turned him to a stone!The genre of the body of the story was about fantasy and part love.The seting was at a mountain top.The ending was mysterious as they mention about "waiting for you."
What do You think about Dread Mountain (2001)?
The quest goes on and the adventures continue to be fresh and new with lots of excitement and close calls. The trio finds a source of dreams so real they can actually travel to the source of dreams but such source can be deadly. Yet they find friends as well as foes. They not only continue their search for the gems but in the process are converting the land they visit undermining the Shadow Lord's kingdom, who is beginning to realize there are three on some sort of quest causing trouble where ever they go cutting into his kingdowm. So the quest face greater and greater dangers.In this one they face yet a very strange foe full f poison and even greater challenges to stay alive. Emily Rodda continues to turn out a fantastic quest in this book number 5.
—Frank
The fifth book in the DELTORA QUEST series, though not as great as some of its previous installments, still is a great book and has, at least I think, a really cool Guardian this time around. Really, this book is all about the Dreaming Spring, which the Kins use every night. They drink the water from it and it allows them to spiritually visit the place or person they dream about and see what is happening to them in real life. After meeting the Kin, they take our heroes to Dread Mountain, where this book's guardian, a giant toad called Gellick, reigns with his giant piles of coins and riches and commands over a large army of gnomes. Even though it was one of the weaker books in the series, I still thoroughly enjoyed it, which is why I gave it a 5/5.
—Lairmemo
