Review: Thin Story + Clunky Narration = Disappointment
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2011
I like dragons, and this was a free download, so I gave it a try. Aside from needing editing (or at least some proofreading) to clear up the clunky storytelling, I found myself disappointed. The story starts slow, works up unevenly to a burst of action... only to end not with a conclusion, but with an out-of-the-blue jump into the premise of the Dragonseer Saga series. That was halfway through the download: the other half turned out to be a preview of the first full-length Dragoneers book. Even knowing that it was a prequel, even knowing that it was a novella, I'd hoped for a more complete, self-contained tale, not what amounted to an overlong Prologue. I didn't bother with the preview; if this novella is an accurate indicator of the author's style and sense of story, I already know the Dragonseer Saga won't be on my reading list anytime soon.