new book review: dragon's winter

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+title = "Dragon's Winter - Elizabeth A. Lynn"
+date = 2019-08-14
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+tags = ["en-au", "books", "reviews", "fantasy", "elizabeth a lynn"]
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+[Goodreads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22746453-dragon-s-winter):
+Karadur and Tenjiro are twin sons of Kojiro Antani, the dragon lord of Ippa.
+But only Karadur, whose name means "fire-bringer," bears the blood of the
+dragon in his veins. His younger brother, Tenjiro or "Heaven's hope," was
+second out of the womb and is the weakest and smallest of the two. As the
+twins grow to maturity, Karadur is anxious to attain the promise of his blood
+and transform into the dragon he is capable of becoming. But Tenjiro, who
+bears the scars of Karadur's claws, resents his older brother and, on the eve
+of Karadur's transformation, steals the talisman that makes the change
+possible. That same night he disappears, fleeing to a distant, icy realm where
+he will reemerge as a powerful wizard bent on destroying his older brother.
+But Karadur, lord of Dragon Keep, is prepared to go to war against Tenjiro,
+and it's likely only one will survive. --Craig Engler (less)
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+A fantasy book with changelings, a feud between brothers and a medieval
+setting.
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+The problem? It is too cliché.
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+Sure it's a simple read, but the amount of clichés, like the big baddie, the
+corruption of a character by some supernatural power, the character with an
+immense power that he needs to learn how to control, even the freaking "let me
+build a character you'll cheer for and I'll kill them" is there.