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A review by nooralshanti
Dragons vs. Drones by Wesley King
2.0
I finished this book, but it took a lot of skimming and by the time we reached the end, with the "big showdown" with the bad guy I no longer really cared and the battle was just another thing to quickly skim. I mean... it wasn't bad, but a book about dragons and drones, fantasy and sci fi colliding, could have been so much better.
You'd think there would be a lot of world-building in a book like this, but the world didn't really feel very big or very interesting. It was just there as a background for this story, which was, at the end of the day, very paint by the numbers. A bunch of boxes were ticked for the purpose of being ticked, but they didn't really make me as a reader feel any excitement. Which is sad, because dragons, people who have internal fire, magic!
I think part of the problem was that it was written for a younger audience, perhaps. And also, I don't like portal fantasy so... yeah.
I did still finish it, so I guess it did something right, but it just wasn't anything too gripping.
You'd think there would be a lot of world-building in a book like this, but the world didn't really feel very big or very interesting. It was just there as a background for this story, which was, at the end of the day, very paint by the numbers. A bunch of boxes were ticked for the purpose of being ticked, but they didn't really make me as a reader feel any excitement. Which is sad, because dragons, people who have internal fire, magic!
I think part of the problem was that it was written for a younger audience, perhaps. And also, I don't like portal fantasy so... yeah.
I did still finish it, so I guess it did something right, but it just wasn't anything too gripping.