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anomalouspulsar's Reviews (183)
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I received a digital copy of Dragonfall through netgalley in exchange for my open and honest review:
DNF at 24%
The following contains mild spoilers for the first quarter of the book, so proceed at your own risk.
There was a lot that I liked about this book settings wise, but there was just an absolute failure to launch for me. I was hoping for a dragon based high fantasy: instead I got dragon stuck in human and/or humanoid shape while they must find the person they have accidentally become bound to.
The primary human character, Arcady, is just kind of…there. They exhibit no real elements of personality, like they do things and they consider things and consequences, but there is just no reason to care and the character doesn’t make you.
The worldbuilding and magic system has a large amount of potential, although it came in a disappointing trickle, and I could not sit through these bland characters and yet another ‘promising dragons and not delivering dragons’ story.
Also, despite the progressive (which is good) stand on world-building, a stuck polymorph really comes off as making fun of neurodivergent people by having a character clearly not able to parse social cues (with the excuse of being a dragon) and not sufficiently going into differences of culture between the species when in the “Dragons” point of view.
DNF at 24%
The following contains mild spoilers for the first quarter of the book, so proceed at your own risk.
There was a lot that I liked about this book settings wise, but there was just an absolute failure to launch for me. I was hoping for a dragon based high fantasy: instead I got dragon stuck in human and/or humanoid shape while they must find the person they have accidentally become bound to.
The primary human character, Arcady, is just kind of…there. They exhibit no real elements of personality, like they do things and they consider things and consequences, but there is just no reason to care and the character doesn’t make you.
The worldbuilding and magic system has a large amount of potential, although it came in a disappointing trickle, and I could not sit through these bland characters and yet another ‘promising dragons and not delivering dragons’ story.
Also, despite the progressive (which is good) stand on world-building, a stuck polymorph really comes off as making fun of neurodivergent people by having a character clearly not able to parse social cues (with the excuse of being a dragon) and not sufficiently going into differences of culture between the species when in the “Dragons” point of view.