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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
by Alison Goodman
I have no idea what the other reviewers on this site are talking about, there was very little court intrigue, very little down time (playschool fonts + giant margins make the book look a lot longer than it is), very little whiny-dumb protagonist.
The book was passably well done. It certainly doesn't catapult itself into the pantheon of great literature, but it is much much better written than any of the [b:Eragon|113436|Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1)|Christopher Paolini|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236488513s/113436.jpg|3178011] series, which is its true competitor and comparator. The only thing that annoyed me about the book was that it seemed that the cultural blind spots that get resolved during the book would have required either a much longer time to resolve, or access to a culture that didn't have that blind spot (which might be the "island" culture, but we learn so little about it, I doubt it).
From the our point of view, the culture we are seeing is remarkably brutal, with, really, only one character not being terrifyingly cruel to those around them (and these cruelties are not in "justified" circumstances).
So, a summary. Quick, YA book, that made for an interesting read. Nothing earth shattering, confusing, obscured, or profound, but passable.
The book was passably well done. It certainly doesn't catapult itself into the pantheon of great literature, but it is much much better written than any of the [b:Eragon|113436|Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1)|Christopher Paolini|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236488513s/113436.jpg|3178011] series, which is its true competitor and comparator. The only thing that annoyed me about the book was that it seemed that the cultural blind spots that get resolved during the book would have required either a much longer time to resolve, or access to a culture that didn't have that blind spot (which might be the "island" culture, but we learn so little about it, I doubt it).
From the our point of view, the culture we are seeing is remarkably brutal, with, really, only one character not being terrifyingly cruel to those around them (and these cruelties are not in "justified" circumstances).
So, a summary. Quick, YA book, that made for an interesting read. Nothing earth shattering, confusing, obscured, or profound, but passable.