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The First Dragoneer (2000)

by M.R. Mathias(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1452443319 (ISBN13: 9781452443317)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

review 1: Anyone who knows me, knows I am a sucker for a book about dragons. Fantasy books to me play in my head like a movie as I picture what the characters look like and their mannerisms. So I thought I would give this one ago.I downloaded this prequel to see if I liked the way it presented it's story.However, no sooner had I started to read it, in which I felt only a couple of memorable things happen, it seemed to end suddenly, leaving me with a sort of blank feeling. The characters to me were not really interesting, the writing was very descriptive in certain areas and sparse in others.If you are going to write a prequel, at least end it in a way that makes the reader want to find out what happens....this one didn't do that for me.I am sure I won't be purchasing the rest of ... morethe series.....sorry MR Mathias, it just didn't capture my imagination.
review 2: I think I would have preferred this novella if the characters weren't shallow jerks with no sense or motivation and if they weren't so determined to get a Darwin Award. Seriously! They were more or less interchangeable, to the point that I couldn't care less that anything bad happened to them. I was deeply disappointed that everything was rendered "all better" for little reason and zero motivation. Come on, there has to be someone with common sense in the entire valley!The plot could not exist because there was utterly no motivation to go wandering off on a long hunting trip when anyone else would have just taken a long walk around the pasture to shoot the breeze. I would have preferred some slightly nonsensical slashy goodness from the fan fiction pit of voles than the character interaction in this novella. At least I would have gotten some hilarious longing gazes of the love that dare not speak its name between the two characters.The descriptions reminded me of a very generic first level D&D adventure, except without the forethought that all of the DMs I know put into their settings and plot hooks.If you want to waste an afternoon and you have the requisite gallon of brain bleach handy... then go to fanfiction.net and click on something random. It would be more entertaining than this and take up less of your time.EDIT: Fixed a few typos. less

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