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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
I love this series; its intelligent, funny, and the world-building is thoughtful and well-developed. Bravo on all counts!
adventurous
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
adventurous
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:
Yes
this was quite enjoyable! a lot less confusing of who the fictional places/countries represented real life places, like Suhail was obvi Arab.
i liked that she brought her son with her and we got to see more of Isabella thinking about what makes a dragon a dragon, the taxonomy stuff. i think the main let down is that she keeps getitng into high profile events and they are discussed so blase and I get that its because of her character but it feels a little fake and almost like lazy writing
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, War, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Racism, Xenophobia, Colonisation
I spent most of the first two books being in love with the concept but exasperated by the execution.
At times it felt far, far too long and unnecessarily slow- and then the exciting bits just rushed by? It was frustrating, but the story was a solid idea and I enjoyed the idea enough that I plodded on, holding out hope it would really pick up. There seemed to be a lot of "let me describe this very realistic Victorian mentality to you!" and a lot of "I'm going to reference this fantastical thing from this alternate reality- but! I'm going to tell you that you already know about it because you live in this world!" with a lot of the more interesting stuff being glossed over and never explained or addressed. That's certainly one way to either gloss over shoddy worldbuilding (I'm certain that's not the case, because what we get is amazing) or avoid boring your readers with too much worldbuilding (I feel like maybe that was the idea), but handwaving all of the spectacular world away was a huge letdown for me as a reader when so much time was spent NOT handwaving the mundane realistic stuff away.
The first book took me a week or so to read, I think? The second one, I started and had to take a couple-month-long break to get me interested enough to finish it, and after that I stalled out for a bit before giving this third one a try. There was a lot of "I've made it through two, do I really think it'll get better, or?"
I read the third one in two days and adored it! I'm glad I didn't give up.
Finally, the author hit the perfect (for me) flow of storytelling. She stopped dismissing her own worldbuilding and included so much more of it. (Although, honestly, I'd happily have taken MORE of it)
I adored the inclusion of her son and greatly enjoyed the newly introduced characters, as well.
The dragons were all handled so well and it was a blast to read about the study of them, the interactions, the way you could actively see the understanding of them behind them being reshaped as they learned more.
A+, will reread this one, even if I skip over revisiting the others.
At times it felt far, far too long and unnecessarily slow- and then the exciting bits just rushed by? It was frustrating, but the story was a solid idea and I enjoyed the idea enough that I plodded on, holding out hope it would really pick up. There seemed to be a lot of "let me describe this very realistic Victorian mentality to you!" and a lot of "I'm going to reference this fantastical thing from this alternate reality- but! I'm going to tell you that you already know about it because you live in this world!" with a lot of the more interesting stuff being glossed over and never explained or addressed. That's certainly one way to either gloss over shoddy worldbuilding (I'm certain that's not the case, because what we get is amazing) or avoid boring your readers with too much worldbuilding (I feel like maybe that was the idea), but handwaving all of the spectacular world away was a huge letdown for me as a reader when so much time was spent NOT handwaving the mundane realistic stuff away.
The first book took me a week or so to read, I think? The second one, I started and had to take a couple-month-long break to get me interested enough to finish it, and after that I stalled out for a bit before giving this third one a try. There was a lot of "I've made it through two, do I really think it'll get better, or?"
I read the third one in two days and adored it! I'm glad I didn't give up.
Finally, the author hit the perfect (for me) flow of storytelling. She stopped dismissing her own worldbuilding and included so much more of it. (Although, honestly, I'd happily have taken MORE of it)
I adored the inclusion of her son and greatly enjoyed the newly introduced characters, as well.
The dragons were all handled so well and it was a blast to read about the study of them, the interactions, the way you could actively see the understanding of them behind them being reshaped as they learned more.
A+, will reread this one, even if I skip over revisiting the others.
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Yes
These books are so much fun, I love them
Another delightful addition. This one tackles the sea travelogue genre!
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes