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The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

84 reviews

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

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

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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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual assault, Alcohol

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.

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

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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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Murder

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

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

lawlerbt's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

peachmoni's review

3.25

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Blood

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

ashliebysmashliereads's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War

anniestar's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The first 2/3 of the story was very slow and made it difficult to engage with the story. The ending was good and helped this become a story I’d want to see continued.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, War

cupcake_kamisama's review against another edition

5.0

dark 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, War

Moderate: Classism