Review: 3 stars for adults and 4 for manga-reading teens
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2012
This really needs to be a 3.5-star book.  Or three for most people and four for the exact target audience.Right.  If you don't like manga, don't read this book.  There are things that will drive you up the wall, absolutely nuts...because they will seem like madness to someone who thinks along the lines of Western books and comic books.Also, if you're an adult reading in adult mode?  This will also drive you up the wall.That being said, if you know manga and are a teen, this is a decent to good read.  Trapped on Draconica throws off the mindset of adulthood and wallows in teenagerness.  Everything teens like to do when thrown into a situation they don't understand is here.  But everything that annoys adults about teenagers is here, too, from the attitude to the goofy decisions that make perfect sense at the time.  It's almost scary.The only thing I really wanted was more polish to the language, to make it easier for my adult brain to read.  It wasn't a problem with grammar or spelling or anything, just the style...it sounded a lot like a teenager, through and through.  I loved the style when it started out, but I spent a lot of time rolling my eyes later on...just as if I were listening to a teenager go on and on...the author was so far into the mindset that I had trouble with it after a while.