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viselik's review
4.0
Before this book, my favourite character in this series was Cobolt, and I loved how he was in this book, but I never honestly cared about Muzo, and this book still didn't make me care much about him as I had always seen him as the forgettable one in the trio.
I loved how Cobolt was a big dork and was quite blunt, which I loved seeing more of, and how, in contrast, he is with the rest of his brothers, but before this book, I was never confused about the size difference between all the brothers. Before this book, I thought Cobolt was slightly taller and more broader than his brothers. Still, after this book, I'm somewhat confused about how tall all the characters are, plus the whole half-shifting thing for the dragons, which wasn't in the other two books, startled me when it suddenly happened.
Considering this was a book about Cobolt, I wish we had learned more about him and why he's so different from his brother's personality-wise other than the fact he's the eldest and he likes snails. Why is his hoard what it is? We know why Thystle's is music and Crimson's is his suit collection, but I needed to see the reason for Cobolt's, and I didn't.
We got to feel how connected Crimson was with his hoard in his book and how connected Thistle felt to him, but I didn't get that feeling with Cobolt in this book. Muzo felt more connected to Cobolt's hoard to me than Cobolt did.
I also wished we got more hints about what was up with Viol; in Alpha Dragon's Eagle, we got some clear hints that something was up, but considering Cobolt is the eldest sibling, and he is the one who put the 'you can't leave the island rule', I expected more from this book than what we got and not for him to instantly want to break the rules he had set and the rules of the games. I wouldn't say I liked that about this book, and it felt inconsistent that Cobolt broke the rules the most when he had always felt like one who would follow them. It was nice we got some characterisation about Jade and the other dragon siblings, but this book felt lacking.
I still immensely enjoyed the book, but I didn't find myself as hooked as I did with Alpha Dragon's Tiger (which made me laugh so hard I cried) and Alpha Dragon's Eagle (which I found was rather sweet). I am pretty interested in how Oakley will handle the next book as I don't think we've ever met Aurum's mate in this book or any of the previous ones, or at least I don't remember them (I honestly thought it would have been Poppy or Alaric's turn next).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying and Sexual content
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