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mistylombardo 's review for:
Chosen By The Dragon Kings
by Jessica Hall
I wanted to really like this book
This book had some good points but it also had some bad.
So for the bad, the first thing that was bothersome is the editing. I feel like if I have paid money for the book, it should be somewhat edited. But there was an abundance of grammar and spelling mistakes. Sometimes so bad that I had to just skip over the entire sentence.
Also, the world building was confusing. Though the majority of the book, I got the feeling that the book was set in a very early time. But sometimes sprinkled throughout the book, you would find out that there was phone, electricity, and lit up signage. It was confusing. It was hard to see that the dragon kings had set up electricity, phone communications, and plumbing to just let it die out along the way. The next thought would be that the city had all these things before the war, which was 100 years before hand, and somehow they were able to get it back up and running within days. It was just a stretch.
The next thing that was so hard as a reader to take in, was the relationship between Silas and Elora. I have read dark romances where the male love interest is abusive to the female but then changes his ways and is very protective and caring for her. This relationship was ridiculous. If I wanted to be entertained by the same thing happening over and over again, I would have just watch Groundhogs Day. I swear I kept hoping for Silas to get better and to redeem himself but I finally got the point where I felt he was just toxic and maybe needed to just leave.
The next thing isn’t necessarily a bad thing but I feel like future readers may want to know that there is sooooo much sex. I’m fine with some sex in a book but I did end up skimming past it a few times.
Now for the good. I liked the story. I wish the author would have worked out her ideas for it a little better. I believe this story was originally on a pay to read site before. Where you pay for each chapter and the author uploads as they write. So I’m curious if she didn’t 100% know what she was planning on doing at first. But, I did like the story about the war and why it happened and why there was a curse and how they had to break it. I just feel like it was a bit jumbled at times. I also liked the characters at times. It was hard sometimes with the Silas issues.
I wanted to really like this book and maybe if the author took it down and did some edits and some reworking, it could become so much better.
This book had some good points but it also had some bad.
So for the bad, the first thing that was bothersome is the editing. I feel like if I have paid money for the book, it should be somewhat edited. But there was an abundance of grammar and spelling mistakes. Sometimes so bad that I had to just skip over the entire sentence.
Also, the world building was confusing. Though the majority of the book, I got the feeling that the book was set in a very early time. But sometimes sprinkled throughout the book, you would find out that there was phone, electricity, and lit up signage. It was confusing. It was hard to see that the dragon kings had set up electricity, phone communications, and plumbing to just let it die out along the way. The next thought would be that the city had all these things before the war, which was 100 years before hand, and somehow they were able to get it back up and running within days. It was just a stretch.
The next thing that was so hard as a reader to take in, was the relationship between Silas and Elora. I have read dark romances where the male love interest is abusive to the female but then changes his ways and is very protective and caring for her. This relationship was ridiculous. If I wanted to be entertained by the same thing happening over and over again, I would have just watch Groundhogs Day. I swear I kept hoping for Silas to get better and to redeem himself but I finally got the point where I felt he was just toxic and maybe needed to just leave.
The next thing isn’t necessarily a bad thing but I feel like future readers may want to know that there is sooooo much sex. I’m fine with some sex in a book but I did end up skimming past it a few times.
Now for the good. I liked the story. I wish the author would have worked out her ideas for it a little better. I believe this story was originally on a pay to read site before. Where you pay for each chapter and the author uploads as they write. So I’m curious if she didn’t 100% know what she was planning on doing at first. But, I did like the story about the war and why it happened and why there was a curse and how they had to break it. I just feel like it was a bit jumbled at times. I also liked the characters at times. It was hard sometimes with the Silas issues.
I wanted to really like this book and maybe if the author took it down and did some edits and some reworking, it could become so much better.