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3.07 AVERAGE
3.07 AVERAGE
I was lucky enough to receive an advance reader's copy of this book ahead of its release next week on March 28th.
This is a fun fast read that sucks you in quickly to the world that Brooklyn resides, going to school to become a Dragon Slayer in an alternative universe to New York City. As the story begins Brooklyn is about to graduate from level 1 to level 2 and discovers that one of her skills instructors is awfully interested in her, as well as his brothers...
This is complicated even by love triangles (or maybe more of a rectangle) standards but a lot of fun and nothing past PG 13 is ever described.
I am looking forward to reading the next book in this series as it was left in a cliffhanger and I want to know what happens next, now that Brooklyn understands more of the world she has gotten herself into.
This is a fun fast read that sucks you in quickly to the world that Brooklyn resides, going to school to become a Dragon Slayer in an alternative universe to New York City. As the story begins Brooklyn is about to graduate from level 1 to level 2 and discovers that one of her skills instructors is awfully interested in her, as well as his brothers...
This is complicated even by love triangles (or maybe more of a rectangle) standards but a lot of fun and nothing past PG 13 is ever described.
I am looking forward to reading the next book in this series as it was left in a cliffhanger and I want to know what happens next, now that Brooklyn understands more of the world she has gotten herself into.
I’m not incredibly familiar with the reverse harem books, but because I enjoy books by this author, I was happy to get a chance to read this one. This is a young adult novel with sexual chemistry but not really any inappropriate sex scenes. Brooklyn is at a hidden school in New York training to become a dragon slayer and because she’s descended from slayer royalty, she is expected to be strong. In the opening scenes, her class is hunting a dragon and Brooklyn kills it with one shot becoming known as a Kill Shot and suddenly she finds herself with friends where once she was ignored. Among her new friends are four dragon shifters, also Kill Shot’s, two of which become enamored with her and neither one seems to have a problem with sharing her. As Brooklyn’s powers become stronger and more destructive, she turns to the guys for help controlling them and the more time she spends with them, the more she realizes that things are not what they seem and that she may more than she could have ever guessed.
This was a well written and well conceived story and the author did a good job developing the characters. I found it interesting that the two love interests didn’t have a problem sharing Brooklyn but it did seem to make it easier for her to choose in the end, and I wasn’t disappointed. The pacing of the book was pretty good, it wasn’t non stop action, but it did provide a solid story leading to the next book. The ending was somewhat of a surprise and I’m excited to see where the series will go from here. This was a good solid urban fantasy and paranormal romance story and the ending itself made the story worth reading. I received a copy of this book from Booksprout and am voluntarily reviewing it.
This was a well written and well conceived story and the author did a good job developing the characters. I found it interesting that the two love interests didn’t have a problem sharing Brooklyn but it did seem to make it easier for her to choose in the end, and I wasn’t disappointed. The pacing of the book was pretty good, it wasn’t non stop action, but it did provide a solid story leading to the next book. The ending was somewhat of a surprise and I’m excited to see where the series will go from here. This was a good solid urban fantasy and paranormal romance story and the ending itself made the story worth reading. I received a copy of this book from Booksprout and am voluntarily reviewing it.
Dragon Slayer was an interesting book. At times, the dialogue felt forced and childish, not natural and teenager-like. I hope that since I got an ARC copy, the book will get another runthrough from a copy editor. In terms of plot, the book was okay, but not groundbreaking. It would have benefited from more worldbuilding. I liked the characters alright. The MC was a little irritating sometimes, and I thought she accepted at the end too easily. It went against everything she knows, and she just says "okay" to it, which was weird to me. In general, the book was not overwhelming. 3 stars. I will read book two because of the cliffhanger.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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that the boys were shifters and she might be one tooI received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy from the author and voluntarily reviewed it
As soon as I heard of this book I knew I wanted to read it. I liked the idea of a world with dragons and dragon slayers, secrets and a Reverse Harem romance. I jumped on the chance to read an early copy of this book and excitedly started reading right away. Overall this was a good read, I easily read through it and I did enjoy the book for the most part, but I also had some issues with the book, the world didn't come alive for me and I never fully warmed up to the characters.
Dragons Slayers follows the story of Brooklyn who is training to become a dragon slayer at an elite school hidden in New York. We get thrown right in the middle of the story when she and her class goes out for their graduation mission. They have to kill a dragon to graduate to the next level or class. I had some trouble getting a good grip on the world, but the story flowed well. My ARC copy had some formatting issues and a bunch of grammatical/ editing errors that got me out fo the story a few times as some sentences didn't make sense now until I realized what it should say. But those probably will be fixed in the final version.
The story is a nice mix between action, the high school aspect and the romance. With the romance getting a bit more focus than the other elements, but that totally worked for me. It's pretty low on the drama. The whole book gives these hints that more is going on with Brooklyn and that the boys are hiding something. They even tell her so a few times, but we only find out in the last chapter what it is and then the book ends. This book felt a bit like an introduction to the series of sorts. It does make me curious how things will progress in book 2. Although it was pretty easy to predict part of what was going on and I wouldn't have minded if the big reveal had been a bit earlier in the book. the main character even suspects the part of the reveal once and then never thinks of it again.
Brooklyn is a bit of a loner until someone finally reaches out to her. She doesn't have any friends in school even tough she has been there for a year already, but I think that's mostly due to her keeping her distance. Which is something she realized herself too. So it was nice to see her make a friend now. I did like reading about her life, but never fully warmed up to Brooklyn. Some parts of how she thought or acted didn't fully work for me. I did like that she struggled with the killing dragons thing a bit, as that made me feel a bit sad as well that they had to kill dragons. I didn't like how she seemed a bit too special snowflake, although with the twist at the end that suddenly makes a lot more sense.
I liked how the book had a strong focus on the romance, but at the same I struggled a bit with the romance at times. I didn't really feel Brooklyn's connection with Manny as their relationship starts at the start of the book almost the reader doesn't have time to get to know him much before that. There is basically no build-up at all, so it was hard to feel their romance.
I did like Manny well enough, he was a nice guy who liked movies and treated Brooklyn well. But he just didn't seem that interesting somehow and I didn't really feel the romance with him. The second love interest is a bit of a flirt, which annoyed me a bit, although he did tone that down as things progressed luckily. The third potential love interest is a bit of the broody, moody silent type, he was a bit rude to Brooklyn at times, which I didn't care for. But I did like how he took some time to warm up to her, unlike the other two who basically had this instant connection with her. The romance doesn't progress further than heated kisses, but there are a lot of making out sessions with the first two boys.
There was a scene with the second love interest involved that made me a pretty uncomfortable and rubbed me wrong. He is her teacher and didn't really act like that. It felt unprofessional. In this case he takes things harder on her than on the other students and she seriously gets hurt. I am glad everyone in the book seemed to take this seriously, but I don't get why no one questioned his ability as a teacher, as he obviously couldn't treat Brooklyn as any other student. And while she said it would take some time to get over it and forgive him, she forgive him pretty easily. While I also wouldn't have wanted it to get drawn out, now it felt a bit too easily resolved.
I was curious how the author would handle the Reverse Harem aspect. I have to say I wans't sure of it at first, especially when Brooklyn had a relationship with one boy already and then got close to another boy as well. That felt a bit off to me as he never said he was okay with her dating other guys. Until he did clarify that, I wasn't too happy how she acted with the second boy. Even tough I knew this book would be a reverse harem the main character didn't know that. And I felt uncomfortable with how far things progressed with the second boy until she knew her current boyfriend was okay with that. It made me wonder how much she cared about the first boy if she was willing to go that far with boy two without considering his feelings. Once that got resolved tough I was able to enjoy it a lot more how things progressed. And I am pretty sure I know who more will join her harem in the next book. I also thought it was a bit weird no one seemed to find it weird at all that she dated two boys.
I liked the whole dragons and dragon slayer theme of the book, but felt like the world didn't fully come alive. I had trouble getting a good feel for how things looked and worked. I just would've liked a bit more information about everything as now it just didn't full make sense or come alive for me. There were lots of little things that just felt weird or unrealistic to me. Like how only those with magic can graduate and become slayers, but they never find out if they have magic until level 2. Then they are invisible for normal humans, but how this worked with the overlap between campuses and the city just didn't make sense to me. Also how do they hide themselves when they can't control their magic yet? Then there are teachers and some of the teachers are still students. It just seemed weird that some of the main classes were thought by level three students instead of teachers who were trained for that. And more little things like that. Most of them are small things, but they all added up over the course of the book and I wasn't able to get as fully immersed in the stroy as I would've liked.
To summarize: I liked this story of dragons and dragon slayers. The story moves along nicely with some high school scenes, some action, magic and a big dose of romance. There is a lot of build up and toward the end of the book there is a big reveal, which wasn't too big of a surprise. I am curious how that will progress in later books. I did enjoy this book, but also struggled with a few things. Brooklyn was a nice enough main character, but I never fully warmed up to her. I liked that there was a lot of focus on the romance, but I had some trouble feeling the romance. With her first love interest their relationship starts at the start of the book so there's little build-up. The second one was a bit of a flirt, but he did tone that down as things progressed. And the third love interest was a bit broody and moody and rude, although I did like it took him some time to warm up to the main character. I felt like the world building was a bit lacking, there wasn't enough information and explanation for it to come alive and I felt some things didn't fully make sense.
As soon as I heard of this book I knew I wanted to read it. I liked the idea of a world with dragons and dragon slayers, secrets and a Reverse Harem romance. I jumped on the chance to read an early copy of this book and excitedly started reading right away. Overall this was a good read, I easily read through it and I did enjoy the book for the most part, but I also had some issues with the book, the world didn't come alive for me and I never fully warmed up to the characters.
Dragons Slayers follows the story of Brooklyn who is training to become a dragon slayer at an elite school hidden in New York. We get thrown right in the middle of the story when she and her class goes out for their graduation mission. They have to kill a dragon to graduate to the next level or class. I had some trouble getting a good grip on the world, but the story flowed well. My ARC copy had some formatting issues and a bunch of grammatical/ editing errors that got me out fo the story a few times as some sentences didn't make sense now until I realized what it should say. But those probably will be fixed in the final version.
The story is a nice mix between action, the high school aspect and the romance. With the romance getting a bit more focus than the other elements, but that totally worked for me. It's pretty low on the drama. The whole book gives these hints that more is going on with Brooklyn and that the boys are hiding something. They even tell her so a few times, but we only find out in the last chapter what it is and then the book ends. This book felt a bit like an introduction to the series of sorts. It does make me curious how things will progress in book 2. Although it was pretty easy to predict part of what was going on and I wouldn't have minded if the big reveal had been a bit earlier in the book. the main character even suspects the part of the reveal once and then never thinks of it again.
Brooklyn is a bit of a loner until someone finally reaches out to her. She doesn't have any friends in school even tough she has been there for a year already, but I think that's mostly due to her keeping her distance. Which is something she realized herself too. So it was nice to see her make a friend now. I did like reading about her life, but never fully warmed up to Brooklyn. Some parts of how she thought or acted didn't fully work for me. I did like that she struggled with the killing dragons thing a bit, as that made me feel a bit sad as well that they had to kill dragons. I didn't like how she seemed a bit too special snowflake, although with the twist at the end that suddenly makes a lot more sense.
I liked how the book had a strong focus on the romance, but at the same I struggled a bit with the romance at times. I didn't really feel Brooklyn's connection with Manny as their relationship starts at the start of the book almost the reader doesn't have time to get to know him much before that. There is basically no build-up at all, so it was hard to feel their romance.
I did like Manny well enough, he was a nice guy who liked movies and treated Brooklyn well. But he just didn't seem that interesting somehow and I didn't really feel the romance with him. The second love interest is a bit of a flirt, which annoyed me a bit, although he did tone that down as things progressed luckily. The third potential love interest is a bit of the broody, moody silent type, he was a bit rude to Brooklyn at times, which I didn't care for. But I did like how he took some time to warm up to her, unlike the other two who basically had this instant connection with her. The romance doesn't progress further than heated kisses, but there are a lot of making out sessions with the first two boys.
There was a scene with the second love interest involved that made me a pretty uncomfortable and rubbed me wrong. He is her teacher and didn't really act like that. It felt unprofessional. In this case he takes things harder on her than on the other students and she seriously gets hurt. I am glad everyone in the book seemed to take this seriously, but I don't get why no one questioned his ability as a teacher, as he obviously couldn't treat Brooklyn as any other student. And while she said it would take some time to get over it and forgive him, she forgive him pretty easily. While I also wouldn't have wanted it to get drawn out, now it felt a bit too easily resolved.
I was curious how the author would handle the Reverse Harem aspect. I have to say I wans't sure of it at first, especially when Brooklyn had a relationship with one boy already and then got close to another boy as well. That felt a bit off to me as he never said he was okay with her dating other guys. Until he did clarify that, I wasn't too happy how she acted with the second boy. Even tough I knew this book would be a reverse harem the main character didn't know that. And I felt uncomfortable with how far things progressed with the second boy until she knew her current boyfriend was okay with that. It made me wonder how much she cared about the first boy if she was willing to go that far with boy two without considering his feelings. Once that got resolved tough I was able to enjoy it a lot more how things progressed. And I am pretty sure I know who more will join her harem in the next book. I also thought it was a bit weird no one seemed to find it weird at all that she dated two boys.
I liked the whole dragons and dragon slayer theme of the book, but felt like the world didn't fully come alive. I had trouble getting a good feel for how things looked and worked. I just would've liked a bit more information about everything as now it just didn't full make sense or come alive for me. There were lots of little things that just felt weird or unrealistic to me. Like how only those with magic can graduate and become slayers, but they never find out if they have magic until level 2. Then they are invisible for normal humans, but how this worked with the overlap between campuses and the city just didn't make sense to me. Also how do they hide themselves when they can't control their magic yet? Then there are teachers and some of the teachers are still students. It just seemed weird that some of the main classes were thought by level three students instead of teachers who were trained for that. And more little things like that. Most of them are small things, but they all added up over the course of the book and I wasn't able to get as fully immersed in the stroy as I would've liked.
To summarize: I liked this story of dragons and dragon slayers. The story moves along nicely with some high school scenes, some action, magic and a big dose of romance. There is a lot of build up and toward the end of the book there is a big reveal, which wasn't too big of a surprise. I am curious how that will progress in later books. I did enjoy this book, but also struggled with a few things. Brooklyn was a nice enough main character, but I never fully warmed up to her. I liked that there was a lot of focus on the romance, but I had some trouble feeling the romance. With her first love interest their relationship starts at the start of the book so there's little build-up. The second one was a bit of a flirt, but he did tone that down as things progressed. And the third love interest was a bit broody and moody and rude, although I did like it took him some time to warm up to the main character. I felt like the world building was a bit lacking, there wasn't enough information and explanation for it to come alive and I felt some things didn't fully make sense.
Dragon Slayer is a Teen drama in a magical world.
Dragon Slayer feels like a book that is setting up the world. It's setting up the action for the next books in the series.
The lead character is Brooklyn, I felt like I understood certain aspect of her personality. Brooklyn is weary of the people around her. After spends the first year at the school on her own, people start making an effort to be her friend after she becomes a Kill Shot. She want to be their friends but worried they are after something. I think any shy person has probably had that thought.
Brooklyn is drawn to several different men in the story all for different reasons. It is interesting seeing the female character have multiple boyfriends or as the synopsis suggests her own Harem.
One of my favourite aspects is that the slayer school is hidden in plain sight, it’s location is at a New York college.
In addition to a hidden school the Dragon disguised as human living normal lives. That battles between dragons and slayers happen in the streets of New York hidden by magic and if anything does get out the stories are twisted by school media removing any traces of magic or dragons.
By the end of the book we know of one mystery revolving Brooklyn. It will be interesting to see what else will come out or more secrets the level three boys are hiding.
My rating for Dragon Slayer is 3.5 out of 5.
Dragon Slayer feels like a book that is setting up the world. It's setting up the action for the next books in the series.
The lead character is Brooklyn, I felt like I understood certain aspect of her personality. Brooklyn is weary of the people around her. After spends the first year at the school on her own, people start making an effort to be her friend after she becomes a Kill Shot. She want to be their friends but worried they are after something. I think any shy person has probably had that thought.
Brooklyn is drawn to several different men in the story all for different reasons. It is interesting seeing the female character have multiple boyfriends or as the synopsis suggests her own Harem.
One of my favourite aspects is that the slayer school is hidden in plain sight, it’s location is at a New York college.
In addition to a hidden school the Dragon disguised as human living normal lives. That battles between dragons and slayers happen in the streets of New York hidden by magic and if anything does get out the stories are twisted by school media removing any traces of magic or dragons.
By the end of the book we know of one mystery revolving Brooklyn. It will be interesting to see what else will come out or more secrets the level three boys are hiding.
My rating for Dragon Slayer is 3.5 out of 5.