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Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

17 reviews

ihugparrish's review

adventurous emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, and Death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Violence, Blood, and Murder

kelshenka's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

sophiesmallhands's review

adventurous emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Murder, Violence, Gore, Death, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual harassment and Colonisation

judassilver's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Blood, and Death

Minor: Sexual harassment

midnightrose_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

Dragonfruit is a Pacific Islander YA fantasy adventure that is positively magical! Definitely reminds me of the adventure stories I read as a teen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent, Child abuse, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Grief, and Kidnapping

warlocksarecool21's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Dragonfruit is a fun YA fantasy based on Pacific Islander culture and mythology. I think this book’s strength is its worldbuilding and setting. I love how the author incorporated elements of island culture and beliefs and you could see that in the world and characters. I think the broader world that was alluded to in the story sounded really interesting and the author left it so she could tell more stories in this world. I liked the characters, and Hanalei and Sam were sweet together but the romance is very subtle. I felt the plot was a little thin and predictable at times but I still had fun with it. This was a pretty quick read and worth picking up. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Violence, and Animal death

lindsayd's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A vivid island setting and lots of sea dragons set the stage for this coming-of-age adventure. Are dragons monsters meant for human benefit or apex predators worthy of respect? This is a question the adventurers explore while also coming into adulthood. 

At times I found the vibe uneven - sometimes brutal and other times like a narratively expected punch was pulled. But on the whole, the ending was satisfying enough and the world was worth visiting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent and Violence

Minor: Rape

belarna's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death of parent, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Blood and Grief

a_libra_library's review

adventurous funny inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.5

Magical sea dragons?! 💚🌊🐉
Magical tattoo??? 
Pirates and seas adventures??? 
I love this book and the audiobook? Amazing Highly reccomend . 

I'd love to see this author write an adult adventure with like the smallest romance plot line because they can write the most sublte flirty that has me kicking and screaming 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Trafficking, Child abuse, Death, Animal death, Classism, and Colonisation

ethias's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

This book was boring and pointless, every plot point conveniently wraps up super quickly and the characters are incredibly flat. I can’t really say anything good about it unfortunately. A TON more animal death, torture, and violence than I expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Violence

There is a lot of death, torture, and consumption of the animals in this book, here are some specifics:

the prince’s bat partner is killed and thought to be consumed by another character, later they burn its body on a pyre, also newborn/unborn sea dragons are broken out of eggs and eaten several times in a gruesome way by humans, several adult dragons are brutally killed and cut open