/lit/ - Literature

I've finished Dragon Avenger and my impressions are...mixed. I see what the author intended to do with this book, but I think he felt short in execution. This book is very, very similar to the first one, and even though it might have been intentional from the author to draw parallels between the dragon siblings, it still ends up being a repeat of the story in the first book, just different.

Overall, I'd rate it lower than the first one, but not due to repetition in plot but because of it just wasn't as interesting as the first one. Much of this could be even called slice-of-life. The series maintains its darker, grim tone of the realities of dragons' lives. Death, betrayal, greed and avarice. And the main protagonist isn't a saint either.

I wish a better writer had written this story, but it's good for what it is.

6.5/10

PS: There's this one weird part where the protagonist, a female dragon, arrives at a secluded domain of a dragon family where she's asked to...bear a clutch of eggs for the daughter of the host, an old white dragon, as the daughter is barren. She just wants hatchlings of her own. Now, everyone is treating the protagonist with respect, mostly, give her place at their table, safety of their sanctuary...but they are portrayed as a bit decadent because they don't really care about other dragons and don't leave their sanctuary. So, when the protagonist is asked to do that, she freaks out and flies away, while calling it unnaturall.

I don't get the moral here, surrogacy is bad and decadent? And it's not as if she was forced, just asked if she would consider doing so. Is surrogacy generally considered bad by american liberals and conservatives? I mean, the author does seem lean between conservative-liberal, but I'm just confused as to what the moral is.