A review by gperna01
Dragonhart by Abbie Eaton

3.75

This book was pretty average. I would give it a 3.75 but I rounded up to four. It felt like a lot of things in this book were taken from other books. Arla, the FMC, felt very Celaena coded to me, but it was like taking all the worst things about Celaena and making it the character's personality. I did not like the FMC, she was extremely arrogant and hardheaded, the whole book she was sitting on her high horse and her arrogance got the best of her. She was extremely reactionary, to the point the MMC, Hark, could not even cue her into things because she would mess it up. The whole mission she could not let it go that the Kastonian government slaughtered her parents and took it out on the Ambassador who is only slightly older than her. She was super annoying and sort of ruined the book and even the romance. She was so arrogant she missed the fact that Hark had the same eyes as Elrod, the Kastonian King. It was very obvious that Hark was the heir and she skipped right over it because she was acting like a child. I did appreciate that she was actually good at fighting and not just said she was. The whole premise of the book was that she was going to find the dragons and predictably she did. After spending the whole book making everyone who said that magic, gods, and dragons were real the moment she saw concrete proof that it was real she knew how to get to the dragons. The dragon's personality was very reminiscent of Fourth Wing and that was a bit off putting. I am a Rebecca Yarros defender, but I hate when an author takes things from other books and its obvious. At the end when everything is over and Hark professes his love it was very reminiscent of Rhys and Feyre. The secret town that Hark built and hid from the world to protect people and the way he talks to Arla was too similar for me. Also, like Arla who is prophesized to save the world is just going to stay in this secret city and not trying to change the current world. She is just going to forget all those suffer in Kastonia at the hand of Elrod... I mean what was the point of the prophecy then. The ending made no sense, and I felt like the book dragged on to just end like that. I really enjoyed the romance between Hark and Arla but not enough to get over her behavior. The world felt extremely underdeveloped, there was no explanation how the magic worked or how Hark could build a town over the north border and that land belong to no kingdom. I am curious how the series will go, and I think this could have been a big book but Arla ruins it. 

Thank you NetGalley and One More Chapter for this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.