Jata brings the exotic to Meg’s Minnesotan life: an ancient, predatory history and stories of escaping to freedom.
Meg Yancy knows she may be overly attached to Jata, the Komodo dragon that has been in her care since it arrived at the zoo from Indonesia. "Mejia beautifully tackles the subjects of animal captivity, endangered animals, human-animal connections, and even evolution." Global Animal A zookeeper fights to save the animal she loves, even as her own life crumbles around her. " is simply a beautiful writer…" Twin Cities Pioneer Press " The Dragon Keeper is an excellent novel with real, imperfect characters, and I have added it to our 5 Star Reads." 5 Minutes for Books Steve Reichling, Ph.D., Curator of Reptiles, Memphis Zoo This great work reads like a stolen peek into a zookeeper’s most personal diary." All the passion, turmoil, heartache, and conflict they experience, much of it kept internalized, are on every page of this book. "Mindy Mejia has given voice to the soul and mindset of the modern zookeeper. "In her debut novel, The Dragon Keeper, Mindy Mejia strikes just the right balance between interrogation of societal behavior and compelling entertainment…I was impressed by the way Mejia structured this novel to aid character development, enhance suspense and imbue gravitas…Mejia’s writing style is refreshingly down-to-earth and accessible while still conveying dignity and a sense of grandeur in passages…an entertaining story that will leave you with a broadened mind and a sense of hope." Booklover Book Reviews " layered, complicated, and challenging story…While painting a portrait of an imperfect but idealistic and dedicated woman, The Dragon Keeper also raises some difficult questions about the preservation of endangered species and our responsibilities for non-human animals." Our Hen House
That's what Mindy Mejia does in her debut novel, The Dragon Keeper, a sort of ecological love story in which zookeeper Meg Yancy guards and protects Jata, the Komodo dragon that has been in her care at a Minnesota zoo since it arrived from Indonesia…After a heartbreaking/terrifying scene (I dare you not to cry), we're given a perfect ending." Twin Cities Pioneer Press You spent a long time without ever having enemy contact, building up your dungeon and armies."Only a skilled writer could make readers care about a Komodo dragon. The fact is that while the single-player side of Dungeon Keeper was brilliant, its multiplayer was distinctly poor. "The major impetus for the move outdoors also came from the need for better multiplayer play. "We wanted to keep the semi-autonomous creatures for example, and we definitely wanted a castle that you could construct in parts and move around in, not just buildings that pop into existence. "We definitely wouldn't have turned DK3 into a clone of StcirCrcift," he continues. But marketing had seen the huge success of RTS games like StarCroft, and they wanted us to move in that direction. There weren't enough people who bought Dungeon Keeper at all. "But the truth is that there weren't enough die-hard Dungeon Keeper purists. The die-hard Dungeon Keeper purists were bound to hate it," said Adams. "I realise that the move in the direction of a more conventional RTS would've been controversial. For the new faction a group of wild, untamed and vegetation-focussed chaps called The Elders would join the fray, alongside the goodly ordered Fleroes and noxious taint of the nasty Dungeon Dwellers. Meanwhile, rather than build dungeons downwards, you'd be building castles upwards. For a start, Dungeon Keeper 3 was proposed as a straightforward top-side RTS: the portals, chickens and individual and characterful monsters would have remained, yet would have been a part of a three-faction battle for supremacy.
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