Book
Six of The Age of Fire
ROC
February 5th,
2013
978-0-451-46356-2
Fantasy
Paperback
Reviewed
by Dawn (love2read28@gmail.com)
Obtained
by Publisher
Three
dragon siblings are the last of their kind and after harsh experiences; all
three have struggled together and apart. Fighting has cost the dragon siblings
much-kingdoms, friends and family, honor & glory as they finally remove
themselves from the world in order to find peace. But peace is slow coming and
the order that they established is falling fast without them there to enforce
it. Dragons battle dragons as ancient magic awakens. Can these three siblings
find a way to unite their lands and people to save themselves and all they love
from destruction?
I
have to admit DRAGON FATE is really, really hard to get into and I felt
quite lost while reading it. I enjoy a good fantasy story. This series sounded
like it had all the great aspects of a promising fantasy story. It had amazing
world building, an intriguing premise and characters that showed promise but
never delivered. The author does a really good job in creating a series where
dragons rule and the world of humans are subjected to them. That being said,
the issue I had was the plot mentioned things that happened in prior books many
times and I was always scratching my head going “what?” This is clearly a
series you can not read out of order and DRAGON FATE is one of those
books that unless you read the first five books then you will be as confused as
I was at times when I read this.
AuRon
the Grey, intelligent yet wary; Wistala the Green, A lone female dragon warrior
& RuGaard the Copper, ruthless, cunning and determined to be emperor. These
three will find that their experiences apart as well as together will shape
their futures in ways neither foresee. The one thing I saw while reading this
was the author made mention of their flaws and strengths but never really got
to the meat of the characters. The dragons alone were interesting to me but I
felt I gained no knowledge of them except what was on the page. Why was Wistala
a warrior? What happened to make AuRon so wary of others? The characteristics
that intrigued me so are glossed over & left me confused even more. I am not saying the characters are all one
note characters, they were not. There were some great secondary characters that
really interested me and wished the author spent a little more time on them. If
these traits were covered in prior books a bit of backstory to introduce new
readers would not have been amiss.
With
DRAGON FATE, I felt a bit cheated I guess you can say by the lack of a
strong story as well as the way this was written. I found some editing issues
that should have been picked up before printing that took me out of the story
as well as a few other issues that should have been taken care of before
publication. I think I am going to try the first five books and see what the
excitement was about the series and hope that this sixth book is just an
anomaly in the series.
This
is an objective review and not an endorsement
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