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A Darkness of Dragons by S.A. Patrick

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jadeyrae's review against another edition

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4.0

7.43 on CAWPILE

raechsreads's review

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.75

A retelling of the Pied Piper, except there's dragons involved. We follow Patch who is striving to survive. He unknowingly becomes involved after stumbling across a town overrun with rats, where one rat isn't what they seem. From there he continues to find new plots and troubles. I can't wait for their story to continue.

pookykun's review against another edition

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4.0

4.5

No jokes. This is legit. Cosy, silly, fun storytelling with high stakes and brisk pacing. Gotta recommend it.

sarahed's review against another edition

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4.0

I thought this was a great book and would highly recommend it for younger readers. The plot was excellent and had a few twists and turns. A great adventure.

It also fits into the retelling genre - it's kind of a motivation/what happened next for the Pied Piper of Hamelyn and the thought the world invented around that tale was really good.

Personally, the book was a little on the young side for me. It felt very middle-grade in terms of character development and pace, and my preference is for at least young adult. Having said that, I would still be interested to read the next book in the series.

The story was complete, but there were a couple of loose ends left where I would be interested to find out what happens next.

booksandlemonsquash's review against another edition

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4.0

4.5 stars to this glorious middle grade book. It has magical questing (yes, again, I really do love a quest!), a dracogriff, the pied piper of Hamelyn, a cursed girl, and a misguided but brave boy. I mean what’s not to love?

I love the piper mythology, and think the author did a fantastic job of weaving a known story into something more. Plus I love that it’s one I’ve not seen a retelling of before. 💙

I super loved Wren the rat, she is so cute and smart. I am definitely looking forward to seeing hopefully more of her story in the next book. And similarly, for all three of our heroes, given how it ends!

It really is a good story of exploring and a little mystery. My only real criticism is that I thought we may not get all the answers by the end as we don’t start seeing things come through to fruition until pretty close to the end. But we did get them, or enough of them, plus some lovely hints as to the next in the series.

I’m so pleased I picked this up!