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Beastly Bones by William Ritter
3.0

DRAAAAAGOOOOOONSSSSS.

There was a period in my life where I was like 'don't talk to me about dragons because they're not real'. I MEAN CAN U BELIEVE THAT?? I am a piece of shit now, but wow, I was even worse back then. Plus when I said that it was like way before I read The Hobbit. After I read The Hobbit I realised that dragons are cool and i took back everything i said about them being not real because chances are they are (right?). (I was actually pretty neutral about dragons, I mean I read HPATGOF a long time ago and I didn't care much about dragons. IDK why then I became such a dragon hater.)

OK. so the thing with this series is it took place somewhere in 1800-ish so that was like a very long time ago and I imagine it being very different from now. But Jackaby is very modern in my opinion. I just don't think that it has that 1800-ish feeling. In this book Jackaby and Abigail found a case where people in Gad Valley found a dinosaur bones which turned out to be a dragon (because it had wings!). This book isn't as fun as the first book because I just think that there are way too many characters and they're not very important, in fact their existence is ruining this book because they just kind of run amok pointlessly. There's also a lot of complain about us not getting enough Jackaby in this book even though he's the most interesting character and I have to agree. He's a bit distant in this book, like he's always there but in the background. But yeah, if you love dragons you should give this one a go even though IMHO it's not very good.