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A review by sleepyshelves
Dragon Den by Kriss Dean
Did not finish book. Stopped at 39%.
Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for an advance digital copy in exchange for an honest review!
I wanted to like this. I really really did... And yet.
The writing was really just not there.
It reads like a F&F fanfiction. Sometimes a nearly word-for-word carbon copy of the first Fast & Furious film but with the names changed and dragons instead of cars. As another reviewer noted, there were so many nearly verbatim quotes from The Fast and the Furious throughout the novella, that it almost felt as though the only real difference became that they were racing dragons instead of cars. There was not much in the way of world building, so readers were just thrown into the world with little regard for how they would find their footing. With monumental action happening at every turn, there’s no conceptualization of who the characters are or how they move through their world. I had issues with the semantics, the narration, and the relationships that, as a reader, I was expected to root for. This one way just not what I wanted it to be. I had such high hopes for it but feel that it would have benefitted greatly from a generous round of editing.
I wanted to like this. I really really did... And yet.
The writing was really just not there.
It reads like a F&F fanfiction. Sometimes a nearly word-for-word carbon copy of the first Fast & Furious film but with the names changed and dragons instead of cars. As another reviewer noted, there were so many nearly verbatim quotes from The Fast and the Furious throughout the novella, that it almost felt as though the only real difference became that they were racing dragons instead of cars. There was not much in the way of world building, so readers were just thrown into the world with little regard for how they would find their footing. With monumental action happening at every turn, there’s no conceptualization of who the characters are or how they move through their world. I had issues with the semantics, the narration, and the relationships that, as a reader, I was expected to root for. This one way just not what I wanted it to be. I had such high hopes for it but feel that it would have benefitted greatly from a generous round of editing.