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How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
3.0
This book was really cute! I went into it knowing it was different from the movies, which really was fine and I definitely didn't hold it AGAINST this book, though it was hard to keep from drawing comparisons. I also didn't mind that the book was a little younger than the movies, probably targeted on the younger end of middle grade.
Honestly? What really kept me from enjoying this book as much as I would have liked to was... Toothless. Again, hard to compare to the emotions of watching Hiccup and Toothless bond in the first movie, but even then. I really thought Toothless was incredibly annoying in this book, and I really had no sense that Toothless and Hiccup really cared about each other, not even at the end. I did not care about Toothless. I did listen to David Tennant read the audiobook, and much as I love DT, his Toothless voice was irritating too - I'm not sure how it was written in the physical book.
Despite the disappointment of Toothless though, I just loved the dynamics between the Vikings. I loved Hiccup's friendship with Fishlegs, the development of Thuggery the Meatheat (sp?), and the honestly complicated and touching relationship between Hiccup and Stoic. The human characters were just delightful, and surprisingly well-developed. If you read this book, it's a book to be read for the humans, not... the dragons.
Honestly? What really kept me from enjoying this book as much as I would have liked to was... Toothless. Again, hard to compare to the emotions of watching Hiccup and Toothless bond in the first movie, but even then. I really thought Toothless was incredibly annoying in this book, and I really had no sense that Toothless and Hiccup really cared about each other, not even at the end. I did not care about Toothless. I did listen to David Tennant read the audiobook, and much as I love DT, his Toothless voice was irritating too - I'm not sure how it was written in the physical book.
Despite the disappointment of Toothless though, I just loved the dynamics between the Vikings. I loved Hiccup's friendship with Fishlegs, the development of Thuggery the Meatheat (sp?), and the honestly complicated and touching relationship between Hiccup and Stoic. The human characters were just delightful, and surprisingly well-developed. If you read this book, it's a book to be read for the humans, not... the dragons.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
4.0
One of the bigger surprises this year! I don't normally like classics very much but I had a lot of fun with this one.