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A review by solaceinprose
Dragonsworn by Sherrilyn Kenyon
2.0
It hurts to give Kenyon anything lower than 4 stars, because she has been my go-to author for over 11 years now. However, I can't give Dragonsworn anything higher than 2, because for the first time, I've seen how pretty 1-dimensional her characters are. At least, after Styxx's book, her characters have become cookie-cutter, and I'm tired of reading the same thing, just different characters, setting, and maybe plot.
I didn't realize that this series was a crossover to her Lords of Avalon books. Perhaps that was my fault for not reading up on that, but since it's labeled as "Dark Hunter" book, and majority of the characters are from her DH series, I didn't think anything of it. So when I started reading the book, I got very confused as who the hell half of these characters were when they got no introduction before hand. OH. THEY'RE LOA CHARACTERS. Right, right. How silly of me not to know.
I really love to sit down with Kenyon sometime and ask her how she decides to bring in characters that haven't been mentioned in almost nine books. For instance, Medea. Now, she's probably mentioned briefly in earlier books, but I can't remember since Kenyon waits a year to release books, and I don't have time to do a reread every year to catch up. Either way, the last time Medea was heavily featured was in Stryker's book. I have no real opinion of her. She is every other character in Kenyon's verse: broken, had massive trauma back in her previous life, snarky, "bad ass", and every other trope you can think of. I was actually quite bored with her.
Falcyn is another one of her tragic heroes...EXCUSE ME, "VILLAIN" with some tragic sob story that make them hard and unfeeling and generaly acerbic because well...that's what Kenyon does best is write the same tragic hero again and again. Which is upsetting because her characters used to have depth and personality and originality. Kyrian was different from Talon who was different Wulf who was different from Zarek (well so is everyone really), and so forth. They were all badass in their own way, but this dragon series was just no good when it came to the characterizations of the main man in charge.
The dialogue was contrite as hell. Her so called witty quips and banter are getting old. It's the same shit in every book of hers, and I'm at the point where I can't tolerate it anymore. I usually sped through the banter because I thought my face would get stuck from rolling my eyes so much. The plot was simple at best, but hey, at least it wasn't a goddamn rehash of Max's and Illarion's book, so there's the upside.
The only thing this book did was make me excited about Urian's book, but I'm not holding my breath. The twist with him was boring and unimaginative, and really, I expected better from Kenyon. Then again, I've expected a lot from her, and all she has shown me is that she should have ended this series years ago.
I didn't realize that this series was a crossover to her Lords of Avalon books. Perhaps that was my fault for not reading up on that, but since it's labeled as "Dark Hunter" book, and majority of the characters are from her DH series, I didn't think anything of it. So when I started reading the book, I got very confused as who the hell half of these characters were when they got no introduction before hand. OH. THEY'RE LOA CHARACTERS. Right, right. How silly of me not to know.
I really love to sit down with Kenyon sometime and ask her how she decides to bring in characters that haven't been mentioned in almost nine books. For instance, Medea. Now, she's probably mentioned briefly in earlier books, but I can't remember since Kenyon waits a year to release books, and I don't have time to do a reread every year to catch up. Either way, the last time Medea was heavily featured was in Stryker's book. I have no real opinion of her. She is every other character in Kenyon's verse: broken, had massive trauma back in her previous life, snarky, "bad ass", and every other trope you can think of. I was actually quite bored with her.
Falcyn is another one of her tragic heroes...EXCUSE ME, "VILLAIN" with some tragic sob story that make them hard and unfeeling and generaly acerbic because well...that's what Kenyon does best is write the same tragic hero again and again. Which is upsetting because her characters used to have depth and personality and originality. Kyrian was different from Talon who was different Wulf who was different from Zarek (well so is everyone really), and so forth. They were all badass in their own way, but this dragon series was just no good when it came to the characterizations of the main man in charge.
The dialogue was contrite as hell. Her so called witty quips and banter are getting old. It's the same shit in every book of hers, and I'm at the point where I can't tolerate it anymore. I usually sped through the banter because I thought my face would get stuck from rolling my eyes so much. The plot was simple at best, but hey, at least it wasn't a goddamn rehash of Max's and Illarion's book, so there's the upside.
The only thing this book did was make me excited about Urian's book, but I'm not holding my breath. The twist with him was boring and unimaginative, and really, I expected better from Kenyon. Then again, I've expected a lot from her, and all she has shown me is that she should have ended this series years ago.