Review: Creative but no Pizzazz
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2012
This was an OK book for me. I liked the creative story line but I never connected with the characters.  This is the story of 14 year old Samuel's adventure as a novice Lorekeeper who must fight to preserve the integrity of the myths which drive human actions and history.  Story seemed to me to be almost a hybrid of C.S. Lewis' Narnia and Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson stories.  Unfortunately, it lacked that spark or energy to draw the reader into the story through the characters.  As a Young Adult Fantasy, I was expecting the story to be more fun and have more light hearted moments but that was not the case.Rise of the Red Dragon is 4,603 Kindle locations long. Standard length novels seem to run in the 4,500 to 7,000 plus Kindle location range. Longer books, such as books in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, can range from 15,000 to 20,000 plus Kindle locations.