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Dragon Champion
by E.E. Knight
The first time I read The Age of Fire books was a decade ago now, in 2012, and I loved them. There aren't a lot of books told from the perspective of dragons. Lots that have dragons in them, but not a lot that have dragons tell them. I loved them a lot.
I still love them, and am surprised at the things that I remembered, like the creation mythos. J
It's creative and interesting, and generally a lot of fun. A little more graphic than I remember, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
But it's far from perfect. The dialogue was often stilted and awkward, and more exposition -- and badly delivered exposition at that -- than anything. It ended abruptly and anti-climactically, and there were several inconsistencies (for instance, at one point, AuRon mentions how mindspeech isn't a conversation but a sharing of experiences, but earlier in the novel there was a misunderstanding in the mindspeech that could only have happened by a misunderstanding of the words used). The vocabulary choice wasn't always the best, where Knight chose to use less common words than normal which didn't work with the narration style. The story didn't flow as smoothly as it probably should have. There seemed to be a lot of loose or dropped threads, which I'm trying not to criticize just yet,since they might be picked up in the later books.
But overall, I enjoyed the story. I love the creativity, and I love dragons, and I think that, overall, they're fairly entertaining and mostly solid.
I still love them, and am surprised at the things that I remembered, like the creation mythos. J
It's creative and interesting, and generally a lot of fun. A little more graphic than I remember, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
But it's far from perfect. The dialogue was often stilted and awkward, and more exposition -- and badly delivered exposition at that -- than anything. It ended abruptly and anti-climactically, and there were several inconsistencies (for instance, at one point, AuRon mentions how mindspeech isn't a conversation but a sharing of experiences, but earlier in the novel there was a misunderstanding in the mindspeech that could only have happened by a misunderstanding of the words used). The vocabulary choice wasn't always the best, where Knight chose to use less common words than normal which didn't work with the narration style. The story didn't flow as smoothly as it probably should have. There seemed to be a lot of loose or dropped threads, which I'm trying not to criticize just yet,since they might be picked up in the later books.
Spoiler
The Great Weakness of dragons was, apparently, that they imprint on the first person they see when they hatch, instead of the fact that dragons are being killed off because they have no sense of community and live isolated lives, and that male dragons can't seem to get over their instinct of attacking other males when they find them, which would have been a far more realistice AND compelling weakness than "oh yeah, they think if whoever raises them as their parent unlike every other race lolololol."But overall, I enjoyed the story. I love the creativity, and I love dragons, and I think that, overall, they're fairly entertaining and mostly solid.