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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">The Dragons of Dorcastle - Jack Campbell</h1> |
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2021-04-13 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2021/">#books:2021</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fantasy/">#fantasy</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/jack-campbell/">#jack campbell</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/the-pillars-of-reality/">#the pillars of reality</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2014/">#published:2014</a> |
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23379245-the-dragons-of-dorcastle">GoodReads Summary</a>: |
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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.</p> |
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★★★★☆ |
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<p>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.</p> |
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<p>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.</p> |
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<p>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.</p> |
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<p>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.</p> |
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<p>But is isn't a bad book, and it sets a whole universe for exploration in the |
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next books.</p> |
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