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Nice Dragons Finish Last
by Rachel Aaron
I really enjoyed this book and I can't believe I waited this long to read it.
Julius isn't exactly the typical dragon, a society which you get to know quite well in the book. They're bloodthirsty, and greedy, and calculating and cold. And have absolutely no regard for humans whatsoever. I loved how this was portrayed, I loved how the dragons weren't just another whitewashed shifter like werewolves but actually something ancient and exotic and foreign.
Julius however, is none of these things. He's the smallest of his clan, and has spent most of his life playing video games and trying to avoid his siblings (which there are many). So what happens when his mother seals his dragon from him, making him unable to shift, and throws him out into DFZ with the impossible goal of: prove to me you're worthy of being a dragon or I'ma eat you?
Well, there's plenty of action in the book. Plenty of ass kicking too, it's just not Julius whose doing said asskicking which is.. very rare in an UF. He's not exactly powerless, he's faster and more sturdier than a human, and he's got a bunch of magic in him (dragons being magical beings after all). He's just not very good at said magic.
He stumbles over Marci, who IS a kick ass mage. But even here it's underlined pretty heavily that there'd be nothing she can really do against a "real" dragon. (Tho she saves Julius a few times).
It's a popcorn read, like most urban fantasy, the uniqueness being there's no murder to solve the whole plot of the book is to find a missing dragon (read running away from home), and bring her back to her sister. It just so happens that other stuff gets into the way, this involves sewer monsters, a gangster with a lot of guns on his payroll and Seers trying to meddle with the future. Oh, and there's a Death Cat who eats souls?
Either way, it was a fun read with plenty of actions and things going wrong and I look forward to their next adventures (and hopefully romance, where there were none in the first book there were just enough hints that it could happen that made me frustrated at stupid dragons and their apparent low selfesteem)
Julius isn't exactly the typical dragon, a society which you get to know quite well in the book. They're bloodthirsty, and greedy, and calculating and cold. And have absolutely no regard for humans whatsoever. I loved how this was portrayed, I loved how the dragons weren't just another whitewashed shifter like werewolves but actually something ancient and exotic and foreign.
Julius however, is none of these things. He's the smallest of his clan, and has spent most of his life playing video games and trying to avoid his siblings (which there are many). So what happens when his mother seals his dragon from him, making him unable to shift, and throws him out into DFZ with the impossible goal of: prove to me you're worthy of being a dragon or I'ma eat you?
Well, there's plenty of action in the book. Plenty of ass kicking too, it's just not Julius whose doing said asskicking which is.. very rare in an UF. He's not exactly powerless, he's faster and more sturdier than a human, and he's got a bunch of magic in him (dragons being magical beings after all). He's just not very good at said magic.
He stumbles over Marci, who IS a kick ass mage. But even here it's underlined pretty heavily that there'd be nothing she can really do against a "real" dragon. (Tho she saves Julius a few times).
It's a popcorn read, like most urban fantasy, the uniqueness being there's no murder to solve the whole plot of the book is to find a missing dragon (read running away from home), and bring her back to her sister. It just so happens that other stuff gets into the way, this involves sewer monsters, a gangster with a lot of guns on his payroll and Seers trying to meddle with the future. Oh, and there's a Death Cat who eats souls?
Either way, it was a fun read with plenty of actions and things going wrong and I look forward to their next adventures (and hopefully romance, where there were none in the first book there were just enough hints that it could happen that made me frustrated at stupid dragons and their apparent low selfesteem)