I can agree with your take on Blood Song. I read the trilogy a few years ago because at some point I got invested in the story and the following two books were more interesting than the first, but for the life of me I could not tell you what they were about now. They're just very... middle of the road.
Edit: I'm probably going to be picking up Promise of Blood because that just sounds freaking cool.
I'm curious about the rant you redacted for that one book, lol! I recently read about half of Dragon Mage, the one featuring the autistic hero. By ... some lady author. It has an interesting premise and world and magic system. I liked the characters. The good guys are good and the bad guys are bad. But the book assumed you had read Pern and know how riders bond with dragons, so that part is never explained. The whole book is training montages of the characters training for this or that challenge or battle. The battle scenes are great, but .. mostly it's training. I hit the halfway point and put the book down. Having one male character refer to another as his husband didn't endear the book to me, because in my experience, once that content shows up, it grows. And overall I just ... Got bored. Couldn't even tell you why.
I re-read the rant and it boils down to cliched writing, lackluster description, a couple teenage protagonists (don’t like those in adult fantasy books), and two prologues (really don’t like those). I tried one of the newest books by that author and I didn’t like that one either, so he’s probably just not for me.
“Pern” sounds familiar, but I never read any of those books. Two husbands though? That is a red flag for me.
Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffery. They were huge in the 70s and basically started the entire dragon riding genre. Except she really leaned hard into Free Love and the books have aged like sour milk. Ugh. Go read Marc Secchia instead, he can actually deliver on a good dragon premise.
I can agree with your take on Blood Song. I read the trilogy a few years ago because at some point I got invested in the story and the following two books were more interesting than the first, but for the life of me I could not tell you what they were about now. They're just very... middle of the road.
Edit: I'm probably going to be picking up Promise of Blood because that just sounds freaking cool.
I read another book by the author of Blood Song and it was fine, nothing outstanding. Probably not an author for me.
But I do want to return to Promise of Blood ‘cause it is a very interesting premise and setting.
I'm curious about the rant you redacted for that one book, lol! I recently read about half of Dragon Mage, the one featuring the autistic hero. By ... some lady author. It has an interesting premise and world and magic system. I liked the characters. The good guys are good and the bad guys are bad. But the book assumed you had read Pern and know how riders bond with dragons, so that part is never explained. The whole book is training montages of the characters training for this or that challenge or battle. The battle scenes are great, but .. mostly it's training. I hit the halfway point and put the book down. Having one male character refer to another as his husband didn't endear the book to me, because in my experience, once that content shows up, it grows. And overall I just ... Got bored. Couldn't even tell you why.
I re-read the rant and it boils down to cliched writing, lackluster description, a couple teenage protagonists (don’t like those in adult fantasy books), and two prologues (really don’t like those). I tried one of the newest books by that author and I didn’t like that one either, so he’s probably just not for me.
“Pern” sounds familiar, but I never read any of those books. Two husbands though? That is a red flag for me.
Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffery. They were huge in the 70s and basically started the entire dragon riding genre. Except she really leaned hard into Free Love and the books have aged like sour milk. Ugh. Go read Marc Secchia instead, he can actually deliver on a good dragon premise.