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morganalexusr's review
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
lizanne95's review
Lately I’ve been really fascinated by the fantasy world. You know all the vampires, werewolves, demons, and etc. Well this book just hit one of the top of my favorites for the genre.
Slayers: Friends and Traitors is an awesome book that I just couldn’t put down. It held me captive through every single chapter. It was amazingly well written and the timing of the book didn’t seem to drag at all or hurry up the story.
I think my favorite characters in the book have to be Tori and Dirk who are also the main characters. Tori is your average teenage girl, well basically, I should say average teenage rich girl who just happens to be a Slayer. Slayers hunt down and kill dragons.
Dirk pretends to be a Slayer so that he can penetrate the camps security codes and secrets. He then hands everything over to his father who is a Dragon Lord, someone who protects the dragons. Only he wants the dragons so that he can become ruler of the world.
What happens when Dirk and Tori start to have feelings for one another? What will Tori do when she finds she has been betrayed not only by a friend but by someone she cares a bit about than just a friend?
Slayers: Friends and Traitors is an awesome book that I just couldn’t put down. It held me captive through every single chapter. It was amazingly well written and the timing of the book didn’t seem to drag at all or hurry up the story.
I think my favorite characters in the book have to be Tori and Dirk who are also the main characters. Tori is your average teenage girl, well basically, I should say average teenage rich girl who just happens to be a Slayer. Slayers hunt down and kill dragons.
Dirk pretends to be a Slayer so that he can penetrate the camps security codes and secrets. He then hands everything over to his father who is a Dragon Lord, someone who protects the dragons. Only he wants the dragons so that he can become ruler of the world.
What happens when Dirk and Tori start to have feelings for one another? What will Tori do when she finds she has been betrayed not only by a friend but by someone she cares a bit about than just a friend?
tywilliams's review
Just finished Slayers. October 15th come faster.But now she cant be with Jesse, she can be with Dirk though.
amyrosehetherman's review
5.0
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG :) i just don't know what to say...So amazing...i cannot wait for the next book~
valyn_grebe's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
emiged's review
3.0
Slayers: Friends and Traitors, the fifth and final Whitney Award finalist in YA Speculative Fiction, is the second in a planned trilogy chock full of dangerous dragons, dragon-slaying teenagers with superhuman strength and night vision, and a megalomaniac villain dragon lord. (You can read my review of the first book of the trilogy here.)
This installment starts out with our protagonist Tori still struggling to adjust to her vastly changed world view. Instead of being a normal, if quite wealthy and in-the-public-eye, daughter of a senator, she's a superhero who can fly and hear what the closest dragon hears. Instead of the stereotypical teenage girl worries like who likes who and what's the best color lipstick for this outfit, she stresses about strategies for fighting killer carnivorous beasts and keeping her friends alive in battle. Unfortunately, she comes across a bit self-absorbed this time around:
This installment starts out with our protagonist Tori still struggling to adjust to her vastly changed world view. Instead of being a normal, if quite wealthy and in-the-public-eye, daughter of a senator, she's a superhero who can fly and hear what the closest dragon hears. Instead of the stereotypical teenage girl worries like who likes who and what's the best color lipstick for this outfit, she stresses about strategies for fighting killer carnivorous beasts and keeping her friends alive in battle. Unfortunately, she comes across a bit self-absorbed this time around:
The point is, it's bad enough that I have to rearrange my life to train for combat, and I have to risk my life to fight dragons--I can't even have a regular boyfriend. A normal guy won't understand the Slayer stuff, and a Slayer won't be my boyfriend because caring about me might taint his judgment while he's fighting. All of this sucks.
Now, I firmly believe that a little bit of self-pity every once in a while can be healthy, and Tori really does get over it and deal with the adjustment fairly well, but I'll admit I rolled my eyes just a bit here.
There's more emphasis on the love triangle between Tori, Jesse, and Dirk in this book than the first. Of course, love triangles are not uncommon in YA fiction, and I thought there was some really interesting exploration of Dirk's dueling loyalties in connection with this one, but it's still a disappointingly predictable device.
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ghumpherys's review
4.0
Great follow-up to the first Slayers book! I found Dirk's character to be the most intriguing -- it will be interesting to see where things go in the next book.
foreveryoungadult's review
Graded By: Mandy C.
Cover Story: Oh, Snap vs. Yeah, We Got This
BFF Charm: Eventually
Swoonworthy Scale: 7
Talky Talk: Feels Familiar
Bonus Factors: Dragons, Superpowers
Anti-bonus Factor: Love Triangle
Relationship Status: Let’s Make Indefinite Future Plans
Read the full book report here.
Cover Story: Oh, Snap vs. Yeah, We Got This
BFF Charm: Eventually
Swoonworthy Scale: 7
Talky Talk: Feels Familiar
Bonus Factors: Dragons, Superpowers
Anti-bonus Factor: Love Triangle
Relationship Status: Let’s Make Indefinite Future Plans
Read the full book report here.
justenjoy's review
4.0
Action packed with a lot of exciting events and a lot of tension. Those are the first words that come to mind. This book started off quite slow, but after 1/3 through, you get one action after the other after the other after the… it went by so fast, I’m sad that it's over already.
Tori grew a lot in this book. She went from the pretty princess in book one, to an actual badass and I liked her even more than I already did. The only thing that bothered me with the plot of book two, was that it was almost an exact copy of the first book. Yes, some circumstances were different but overall it was the exact same outcome. The new characters were a great addition though, and I look forward to seeing where this story goes next.
Tori grew a lot in this book. She went from the pretty princess in book one, to an actual badass and I liked her even more than I already did. The only thing that bothered me with the plot of book two, was that it was almost an exact copy of the first book. Yes, some circumstances were different but overall it was the exact same outcome. The new characters were a great addition though, and I look forward to seeing where this story goes next.
ashleym10148's review
4.0
I have really been enjoying this series. This book was fantastic. It was a bit slow moving at first, but it really picked up after the first 100 pages. I love books about dragons and the dragons in this series are so unique and unlike anything that I have read before. In this series there is a love triangle and I have to admit that it is not my favorite. Tori just needs to make up her mind and stop going back and forth. It's a stereotypical love triangle and it is getting a bit annoying. Hopefully in the next book she will just pick one guy and stick to that decision. I really love how new information is introduced in this book. It is being discovered in great and interesting ways. I can't wait to read the next book and see what is in store for Tori and the rest of the Slayers.