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booksthatburn 's review for:
Talon
by Julie Kagawa
DID NOT FINISH: 60%
The plot is very slow, with a lot of time spent on the characters having the same worries over and over. I wanted a story about dragons, and instead it's a contemporary-ish teenage romance where some of the characters happen to be dragons but are generally human-shaped. The love triangle involves a teenage dragon (female), a teenage human (male), and a young adult dragon (male). I wasn't sure how big the of a deal the dragon-to-dragon age gap was, but once I got to a section from his perspective I found out he thinks of the teenage dragon as a hatchling, which makes his interest in her much creepier. If I'd been more interested in the plot this might not matter (that's not automatically a DNF reason for me), but this was one thing too many when I was already not engaged in the story.
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment
Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent