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The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

57 reviews

valwithabook's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Incredible. Absolutely incredible.

Winter’s “The Rage of Dragons” heavily discusses classism, grief, determination, and vengeance, without pulling back any punches (or sword thrusts) in this High Fantasy world of the Chosen. It is action packed (and I mean ACTION packed), while delivering a heartfelt, haunting narrative that is empathetic and innovative, not letting you forget the suffering of others besides Tau, as well as the motivations of antagonists, making it all more human (and monstrous). The book makes space for lovable and distinct characters, and pockets of hope and laughter in the midst of Tau’s journey.

What I found most interesting is how descriptive and “visual” the narration is. It manages to never be boring or repetitive, and would lend itself to be a WONDERFUL movie. Why does this book not have a movie deal yet??????????? Because it truly should have one ASAP!!

I personally believe that if you like the cutthroat and political nature of “The Hunger Games” and the military, fantasy aspect of “An Ember In The Ashes,” this is the book for you!!

I have many more thoughts that I will need to share perhaps in a Booktube video soon, but for now, I truly recommend this book!

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womanwoods's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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drmarls's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kaylokay_'s review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Absolutely blown away that this is a debut. Winter is able to right such visually evocative scenes that makes this feel like a cinematic production. But that is not at the cost of great characterization and development for our main and side characters. Tau and his revenge story inceptions reminds me a lot of Daro from Red Rising - he makes mistakes, lets his anger get the better of him, and despite being expertly trained allows his emotions to betray is training, but he doesn’t have the same whininess that Daro has that really turned me off in Golden Son.

Can’t wait to see where this goes.

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booknug's review

5.0

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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alaris's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Interesting world-building and a unique setting, but the training ended up being so very detailed that I was skimming through up to the last 100 pages roughly - I just don't enjoy descriptions of fight scenes much, and this was so very heavy on dry fighting choreography.

Tau as a character was also frustrating, and claiming this society is a matriarchy seems bizarre since there's almost no female characters (and the few that exist only get mentioned to inspire rampages of revenge from guys - which is a disgusting trope). I'm willing to give the second book a chance, but damn, this was a slog at times.

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bewhitedragon's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Rage of Dragons is a unique epic fantasy story centered on Tau Solarin, who has people he cares for taken away and vows to become vengeance itself. In many cases, when dragons are involved in an epic fantasy, they're usually mounts for dragonriders, but I think the way they are used here is different and unique. It's also just a fascinating world that is based on African culture. Evan Winters himself said that he wanted to write a fantasy story where the main character is black, and I think he does a wonderful job at creating this world while making it his own compared to other epic fantasy stories. With how this one ends, I'm very eager to start the second book soon!

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gabaghoulx2's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Tau Solarin is basically if Kaladin Stormblessed and Fang Runin were blended together. Unreliable narrator + consumed with revenge + somehow are better than one could possibly imagine.
A bit predictable at points, and the female characters seem to just exist to propel the male storyline.

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