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the_midwest_library 's review for:
The Dragonbone Chair
by Tad Williams
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-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:
No
Whoa, I finished!!
This was a feat, and a journey that I'm glad I finally started. Classic fantasy at its best, truly this was a wonderful read. But boy oh boy is this world slow and a bit dense. That doesn't bother me per se, but for a lot of readers the length and drawn out movement of the plot will be a hurdle they fail to clear.
I enjoyed our MC, a young boy with dead parents, who was raised in the kitchens of the castle always underfoot. He finds himself taken under the wing of a mysterious elder within the castle who teaches him history, and some other life lessons. Those lessons are short lived (I mean come on you see where this is going) as our MC finds himself in the center of a larger political and magical plot.
The side characters were great, I enjoyed them a ton, the politics are intense at times. Lots of names, lots of places, lots of history but it all comes together really nicely. The writing is fabulous, even though this book is objectively SLOW I was always into it and wanting to read more. I will continue in this world, I just need a few buffer books to balance this one out before diving into book 2 hahaha
This was a feat, and a journey that I'm glad I finally started. Classic fantasy at its best, truly this was a wonderful read. But boy oh boy is this world slow and a bit dense. That doesn't bother me per se, but for a lot of readers the length and drawn out movement of the plot will be a hurdle they fail to clear.
I enjoyed our MC, a young boy with dead parents, who was raised in the kitchens of the castle always underfoot. He finds himself taken under the wing of a mysterious elder within the castle who teaches him history, and some other life lessons. Those lessons are short lived (I mean come on you see where this is going) as our MC finds himself in the center of a larger political and magical plot.
The side characters were great, I enjoyed them a ton, the politics are intense at times. Lots of names, lots of places, lots of history but it all comes together really nicely. The writing is fabulous, even though this book is objectively SLOW I was always into it and wanting to read more. I will continue in this world, I just need a few buffer books to balance this one out before diving into book 2 hahaha