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title = "The Dragons of Dorcastle - Jack Campbell"
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date = 2021-04-13
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "books:2021", "fantasy", "jack campbell",
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"the pillars of reality", "published:2014"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23379245-the-dragons-of-dorcastle):
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For centuries, the two Great Guilds have controlled the world of Dematr. The
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Mechanics and the Mages have been bitter rivals, agreeing only on the need to
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keep the world they rule from changing. But now a Storm approaches, one that
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could sweep away everything that humans have built. Only one person has any
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chance of uniting enough of the world behind her to stop the Storm, but the
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Great Guilds and many others will stop at nothing to defeat her.
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{{ stars(stars=4) }}
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Before anything else, let me say that I really enjoyed the way the book was
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written: It is accessible, easy to read, easy to digest and, well, fun.
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I also enjoyed the setting: A place where magic exists, but in which technology
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wasn't ignored due this. So you have pistols, rifles, even cell phones, but
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people that can make things burn and go through walls with the power of their
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minds.
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What I didn't like, though, was the way the relationship between the two main
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characters evolve. It feels a bit forced and not something that develops
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naturally. Also, one of the characters seem only to mirror the other (there are
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reasons for this in the story, which I'm trying really hard not to spoil), so
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it's not like they are really feeling that, they are more like mirror the
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feelings of the other -- which, again, feels forced.
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Also, I have some trouble with the pacing. You're reading a tense discussion,
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with blatant disregard of one of the character's opinion, and then it cuts to
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some memory or internal thought for 3 or 4 paragraphs, and then you return to
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the same discussion. I see no problem in things like when the plot is just slow,
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so you can give some character building at that point, but in the middle of a
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heated discussion? The whole tension just breaks and it feels like the
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discussion is not that tense anyway -- so, no repercussions, which isn't what
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actually happens.
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But is isn't a bad book, and it sets a whole universe for exploration in the
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next books.
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