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A review by hazel_alexandra
The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
3.0
3.5
This was good! Tight, well paced plot that followed in a fairly logical fashion, plot threads are well managed. It didn’t do anything too crazy with descriptive language or style; I think that’s some of the problem in terms of the fact that it’s very middle of the road fantasy fare on offer but I want to stress that this was good to read, objectively, and it felt fine! It felt okay! sometimes that’s actually okay for a book to be!
The inspiration behind the world I found much more compelling than the actual world building tbh, which was kind of heavy handed (the whole thing with dragons being called by just a woman mimicking how their younglings sound crying in the demon realm was a bit of a let down. I thought the Guardians were going to turn out much more important than they were, esp in the backstory). I liked the characters, even if Tau’s evolution into soldier wonder boy kind of happened off page and in little asides until he’s simply the best. Like I understand HOW it happened because I was told, a lot, but it felt a little repetitive? No other characters really stuck in my mind or surprised me enough to comment on character development.
The fight scenes were interesting, considering I’m not normally able to sit through them in books and this was (mostly) made up of them. What I will say is it’s impressive that it is paced so well (especially considering it’s a debut). At no point did I think “let’s wrap this up folks”.
The dialogue felt a little “action film” in that nobody really has much to say to each other past inspirational monologues or one liners.
Overall I did like it, but I’m not sure I’d directly compare it to other high fantasy series.
This was good! Tight, well paced plot that followed in a fairly logical fashion, plot threads are well managed. It didn’t do anything too crazy with descriptive language or style; I think that’s some of the problem in terms of the fact that it’s very middle of the road fantasy fare on offer but I want to stress that this was good to read, objectively, and it felt fine! It felt okay! sometimes that’s actually okay for a book to be!
The inspiration behind the world I found much more compelling than the actual world building tbh, which was kind of heavy handed (the whole thing with dragons being called by just a woman mimicking how their younglings sound crying in the demon realm was a bit of a let down. I thought the Guardians were going to turn out much more important than they were, esp in the backstory). I liked the characters, even if Tau’s evolution into soldier wonder boy kind of happened off page and in little asides until he’s simply the best. Like I understand HOW it happened because I was told, a lot, but it felt a little repetitive? No other characters really stuck in my mind or surprised me enough to comment on character development.
The fight scenes were interesting, considering I’m not normally able to sit through them in books and this was (mostly) made up of them. What I will say is it’s impressive that it is paced so well (especially considering it’s a debut). At no point did I think “let’s wrap this up folks”.
The dialogue felt a little “action film” in that nobody really has much to say to each other past inspirational monologues or one liners.
Overall I did like it, but I’m not sure I’d directly compare it to other high fantasy series.