A review by rubeusbeaky
The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milán

3.0

I picked up this book thinking if it took itself too seriously, I would still have fun laughing at it. But I was blown away, it was thrilling and creative, well-written... I was singing it's praises for 500 pages: courtly intrigue, feisty heroine, sassy hero, fae, gods, dinosaurs! Could not wait to get my hands on the sequel... And then 40 pages from the end the story fumbled so much, I had to knock it down a star :/. Trigger warnings, character assassinations, swiftly followed by poop jokes...? What?! It felt like the author wrote the /last/ 40 pages earlier, when he was less sure of what he wanted to do. And the plot choices seemed to only be there because... *shrug*... that's what you do in the fantasy genre? I had come to expect better given how much fun I'd been having. I'm disappointed the story went awry. Maybe the sequel can save it.