A review by sunsoar25
The Dragons of the Cuyahoga by S. Andrew Swann

3.0

I picked this up at a thrift store on the premise alone - there's a portal to a Tolkien-esque dimension opens up in Cleveland, Ohio. I always love finding fantasy novels set in Ohio and this sounded like it would be full of potential. Anyway, it starts off well. I particularly enjoyed reading about just how the magic leaching through the portal affects the real world - and those coming from that dimension. I also liked reading about just how inhuman and different all of those creatures and figures are from us. Unfortunately, this story never quite lived up to my hopes. It was a little too dry, the main character Kline Maxwell (his name should be flipped in my opinion) wasn't all that interesting, and the story became too politically convoluted as it went on. I was hoping for something more similar to The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford which was absolutely awesome. Even though I wasn't the biggest fan of The Dragons of the Cuyahoga (Cleveland Portal #1), I would like to see more of this world and read the sequel, The Dwarves of Whiskey Island.