From 50d12cd3824fb31e03772a03a85f3fc2ab89f216 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:36:16 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Book review: Dragons of Dorcastle --- content/reviews/books/dragons-of-dorcastle.md | 47 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/reviews/books/dragons-of-dorcastle.md diff --git a/content/reviews/books/dragons-of-dorcastle.md b/content/reviews/books/dragons-of-dorcastle.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e11d564 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/books/dragons-of-dorcastle.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ ++++ +title = "The Dragons of Dorcastle - Jack Campbell" +date = 2021-04-13 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["books", "reviews", "books:2021", "fantasy", "jack campbell", +"the pillars of reality", "published:2014"] ++++ + +[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23379245-the-dragons-of-dorcastle): +For centuries, the two Great Guilds have controlled the world of Dematr. The +Mechanics and the Mages have been bitter rivals, agreeing only on the need to +keep the world they rule from changing. But now a Storm approaches, one that +could sweep away everything that humans have built. Only one person has any +chance of uniting enough of the world behind her to stop the Storm, but the +Great Guilds and many others will stop at nothing to defeat her. + + + +{{ stars(stars=4) }} + +Before anything else, let me say that I really enjoyed the way the book was +written: It is accessible, easy to read, easy to digest and, well, fun. + +I also enjoyed the setting: A place where magic exists, but in which technology +wasn't ignored due this. So you have pistols, rifles, even cell phones, but +people that can make things burn and go through walls with the power of their +minds. + +What I didn't like, though, was the way the relationship between the two main +characters evolve. It feels a bit forced and not something that develops +naturally. Also, one of the characters seem only to mirror the other (there are +reasons for this in the story, which I'm trying really hard not to spoil), so +it's not like they are really feeling that, they are more like mirror the +feelings of the other -- which, again, feels forced. + +Also, I have some trouble with the pacing. You're reading a tense discussion, +with blatant disregard of one of the character's opinion, and then it cuts to +some memory or internal thought for 3 or 4 paragraphs, and then you return to +the same discussion. I see no problem in things like when the plot is just slow, +so you can give some character building at that point, but in the middle of a +heated discussion? The whole tension just breaks and it feels like the +discussion is not that tense anyway -- so, no repercussions, which isn't what +actually happens. + +But is isn't a bad book, and it sets a whole universe for exploration in the +next books.