Dragonslayer

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I've read the first two seasons and darkstalker; they mostly manage to tell a good story with good characters and balanced themes. This book does not do that. To be clear I wanted to enjoy this book; I knew that it would take a hit in that department moving away from dragons to humans but I never expected it to go this far.I could not stand any of the main characters; the only likeable character in the bunch was Sky for me. The story is split between three characters and jumps forward years in time between chapters for each of the characters. The main character's aren't relatable like other characters in the series the story as a whole is much more barebones expecting the reader to make assumptions rather than explaining at any point why certain potential logic holes are not in fact logic holes.The author's hippocritical distaste for masculine men and her hippy peace and love idealism is at it's worst and most undisguised in this book. It's a constant that any male characters that have any male traits at all are either a villain or denigrated as following the wrong path until they give up their ebil male ways. At the same time the female characters are rewarded for expressing those same masculine traits. The closest character to bucking this trend in the book is a background character who gets no focus what so ever. The author is very much trying to lean heavily into the female centric audience in this book going as far as to allude to the pony/horse features of her dragons which I don't recall her doing up until this point. Some of the side characters are outright irritating to read even without the gender biased dialogue.(Edit: I realised the central problem in the book is the author continually shows no respect to her male characters that it comes off that the book has a deeply cynical view of men. By lack of respect I mean showing them in the worst light, making them the butt of the jokes and certain scenes where the feelings of male characters are expected to have no value to the audience. The result is that her female characters say and do unlikeable things that well adjusted people would not do or otherwise would do it in a way that does not leave the impression of unjustified and unneccessary callousness.)There are good bits and bad bits. Some jokes work, some fall flat on their faces. Maybe some children won't see in the storytelling what I see but I'm not sure that's entirely a good thing. The three main characters were incredibly frustrating to read for the first half of the book and even in the later sections when it gets more bareable the characters still come up with some lines that just left me saying. "Why did the author think that line was a good idea?"For those that might think this review is about a certain dragon in arc 3 it isn't. I haven't read arc 3 I'm waiting for the third boxset to be released to go with the first two I own. But if arc three is as bad as this one book is, I'm going to be going through a lot of mental pain certain dragon or not just to keep up with the story.

Lovved the book. It keeps you wanting to read. I like the way the chapters were set out and where it had the conecting references to the wings of fire series. Also that it was left open for a second book which I really hope there is

My 10 year old daughter has been reading this series for a couple years now and she loves them. She always looks forward to a new release and asked me to suggest more graphic novels too please. :)

My grandson loves this series...he's probably read it already:) Next:)

Excellent story and character. Facinating freash take on the Pyhirra universe and all around great read.Fast and effective delivery from seller. Authentic rare hardback version of legends novel worth the extra effort and price!