Book Review: Dragon's Winter by Elizabeth A. Lynn
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florianschildCan I just shout into the void for a second?
I just finished reading Dragon’s Winter by Elizabeth A. Lynn. I don’t know if I can take reading the sequel. I don’t remember the last time I have been so monumentally crushed by high expectations being suddenly dashed upon a rock.
Don’t get me wrong, I love an unrelenting tale of human misery and woe. Angst is my go-to genre, which is why I chose to read this book in the first place. Well, that and canon slash. Which brings me to my next point…
What. The fuck.
What is this book about?
After 300ish pages of beautiful, subtle, committed adorableness between the two (main?) characters, the epilogue - the happy fucking ending - is the dragon prince falling in love with a random throwaway lady that was introduced one chapter earlier? Ugh. I just… I was so into this book until the epilogue. It completely ruined it. It’s not that there can’t be a love triangle or any romantic tension for the main characters either. But how can you end your epic, sweeping, gay, love story with this? Even if you want the drama of Karadur falling in love with someone else, or loving multiple people, or whatever… that really shouldn’t be the point where it stops. Because that isn’t closure, at least not to the story you’ve been telling so far.
And another thing? Azil. What the hell? Poor Azil. Kidnapped and tortured by the villain and then fucked over even worse by the author. I mean seriously, here’s an idea: don’t make one of your most interesting characters into a fucking cocktail waiter who gets to be abandoned by his lover in favor of the princess at the end of the story (oh and who, by the way, also never gets revenge on the insane warg-beast that tortured him and taunted him throughout the entire book). Fucking unbelievable. This is why I don’t know if I can read the sequel. Azil isn’t even mentioned in the description of Dragon’s Treasure, so presumably if we do see him he’ll just be fetching drinks for Karadur and his new lady love and then going to sleep alone with his terrifying nightmares. Ugh.
I probably will read the sequel though. Goddamnit.
EDIT: I read the sequel. It's fucking brilliant.
I just finished reading Dragon’s Winter by Elizabeth A. Lynn. I don’t know if I can take reading the sequel. I don’t remember the last time I have been so monumentally crushed by high expectations being suddenly dashed upon a rock.
Don’t get me wrong, I love an unrelenting tale of human misery and woe. Angst is my go-to genre, which is why I chose to read this book in the first place. Well, that and canon slash. Which brings me to my next point…
What. The fuck.
What is this book about?
After 300ish pages of beautiful, subtle, committed adorableness between the two (main?) characters, the epilogue - the happy fucking ending - is the dragon prince falling in love with a random throwaway lady that was introduced one chapter earlier? Ugh. I just… I was so into this book until the epilogue. It completely ruined it. It’s not that there can’t be a love triangle or any romantic tension for the main characters either. But how can you end your epic, sweeping, gay, love story with this? Even if you want the drama of Karadur falling in love with someone else, or loving multiple people, or whatever… that really shouldn’t be the point where it stops. Because that isn’t closure, at least not to the story you’ve been telling so far.
And another thing? Azil. What the hell? Poor Azil. Kidnapped and tortured by the villain and then fucked over even worse by the author. I mean seriously, here’s an idea: don’t make one of your most interesting characters into a fucking cocktail waiter who gets to be abandoned by his lover in favor of the princess at the end of the story (oh and who, by the way, also never gets revenge on the insane warg-beast that tortured him and taunted him throughout the entire book). Fucking unbelievable. This is why I don’t know if I can read the sequel. Azil isn’t even mentioned in the description of Dragon’s Treasure, so presumably if we do see him he’ll just be fetching drinks for Karadur and his new lady love and then going to sleep alone with his terrifying nightmares. Ugh.
I probably will read the sequel though. Goddamnit.
EDIT: I read the sequel. It's fucking brilliant.
