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A review by bookfever
Circus of Scales by Constance Roberts
3.0
3.5/5★
This was a fun read! I love fantasy and I love dragons so a story about a dragon tamer and her dragon in a circus was something that I liked reading about. It all reminded me a bit of How To Train Your Dragon and I love those movies so this was a very good thing.
Although there were some things in the story that I saw coming, the story in its own often went into surprising ways. I really liked the main character Ivy and her bond with her dragon Celestia. It was very clear that she loves the dragon very much and would do anything to protect her. And now I want a dragon too. *cries*
The dragons were obviously the best part of the story. There were so many different ones, different breeds in different colors. I also loved the setting very much. Even though dragons are exploited in this fantasy world, it did seem like a beautiful and magical world. I'd love to know more about it.
As much as adored Ivy, the setting and all the dragons, when it came to the conversations between characters it felt a little clunky. This wasn't that much of a deal breaker to me but I still felt it wasn't quite the four star book that it could've been. The dash of romance that was there also couldn't hook me that much but I know of myself that I'm hard to please when it comes to that so it wasn't that important to me in the end.
I do have to say that the descriptions of everything were really quite beautiful and I loved those. So sure there were some flaws but I hope it won't stop anyone from picking this book up because it did have a lot of good things going in the story. Do it for the dragons!
Overall, Circus of Scales was a quick-to-read and exciting novella with How To Train Your Dragon vibes that was very hard to put down. I'm looking forward to the next part!
This was a fun read! I love fantasy and I love dragons so a story about a dragon tamer and her dragon in a circus was something that I liked reading about. It all reminded me a bit of How To Train Your Dragon and I love those movies so this was a very good thing.
Although there were some things in the story that I saw coming, the story in its own often went into surprising ways. I really liked the main character Ivy and her bond with her dragon Celestia. It was very clear that she loves the dragon very much and would do anything to protect her. And now I want a dragon too. *cries*
The dragons were obviously the best part of the story. There were so many different ones, different breeds in different colors. I also loved the setting very much. Even though dragons are exploited in this fantasy world, it did seem like a beautiful and magical world. I'd love to know more about it.
As much as adored Ivy, the setting and all the dragons, when it came to the conversations between characters it felt a little clunky. This wasn't that much of a deal breaker to me but I still felt it wasn't quite the four star book that it could've been. The dash of romance that was there also couldn't hook me that much but I know of myself that I'm hard to please when it comes to that so it wasn't that important to me in the end.
I do have to say that the descriptions of everything were really quite beautiful and I loved those. So sure there were some flaws but I hope it won't stop anyone from picking this book up because it did have a lot of good things going in the story. Do it for the dragons!
Overall, Circus of Scales was a quick-to-read and exciting novella with How To Train Your Dragon vibes that was very hard to put down. I'm looking forward to the next part!