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The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

16 reviews

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, War, Classism

Moderate: Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child death, Genocide, Vomit

guacdaddie's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, War

Moderate: Body horror, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Genocide

lacy30twin1's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Genocide, Murder, War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Vomit, Colonisation

Animal cruelty is implied, not described and it's a dragon.

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

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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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

Minor: Child death, Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

raaanch's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Really good pace, I was never bored. It ends kind of abruptly but was still good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism

ayoung720's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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One of the best, most-refreshingly unique fantasy stories that I've read in a long time. The Rage of Dragons is a fast-paced story that still manages to build out a well-developed world, really cool magic/power system, and characters who grip your attention with every move they make. While I am a huge fan of slow-burn fantasy world building a la Brandon Sanderson, the pacing of this story kept me hooked from beginning to end, reminding me a lot of another favorite author, John Gwynne. Can't wait to start book two! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Death of parent, War

Moderate: Slavery, Torture

Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury

matthewedward's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

alanathehangry's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Liked it. 

This was...an interesting book. I think the first and last third were solid. I think there were way too many training sequences. But I enjoyed watching Tau's character development (if not slow and frustrating at times) and his relationships with his sword brothers grow. I loved how he was eventually able to alter the power dynamic. That was fascinating to see. Often in these epics, the main character will just be good because they were born for it. This is where Winter excels. Tau was never a great fighter, he had no passion for it, and no talent. But by pushing himself as far as he possibly could, going to new heights (and depths), he crafted and molded himself into it. That was probably the best part of this book. 

I still think at least 100 pages could be cut for the training scenes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

strawhat_kd's review

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The Rage of Dragons is incredible. From the first page to the last I found myself wanting to come back to this world and find out what's going to happen next. The world building is incredible. You understand the stakes of what's going on in this world and regardless of what's going on in the story, the looming threat is always a factor. The battles...the way Evan puts words together to describe the battles is surreal. There's one passage where he describes the sound of a weapon hitting a helmet and I could imagine it allas if I was right there. The main character, Tau, a beast. Every battle he gets in is as engaging as the next. Around Chapter 6 and 7, the book hits another gear and I was unable to stop reading. I finished the second half of the book in a few short hours. The chapters are broken down into smaller digestible chunks which made it easier to get through the longer chapters, especially in the beginning. There 's twists, betrayals, demons, dragons and so much more all set in a South African inspired fantasy world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, War, Classism

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Rape

khorsch926's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 13%

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YA masquerading as adult fantasy. Flat characters. I didn’t like the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Genocide, Gore, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War