/lit/ - Literature

>>21510278
Okay...But be sure to stop after book ten.

Are wings of fire a decent pick for a 12 going 13 year old's birthday gift? He already did harry potter. Hypothetically of course.

>>20383035

>Reposting from /trash/ of all places where an Anon is blogging Wings of fire for the scalies.
Obvious spoilers ahead, so people planning on reading it or whatever: Don't read this post. I have rather enjoyed it blind.

So, I've given it a listen as I go through my work, got a little over 3 hours in to the first book.
First off, I'll say, I'm not too much a fan of the voice over they gave this. Little too "disney" for my tastes, considering the rather grim aspect to a lot of this.
I am, either way, debating just reading physical copies whenever I've got the chance as a result. It's not terrible, but it's enough that I feel like I'm missing some of the emotional impact.
It's up in the air, but I might not update this much if I do.

Going in to it at the start, I was a bit shocked, to be sure. There's a little bit of cheesiness to it, in terms of villainous monologues, which I think might've got me into a different expectation when it came down to it.
Sure, I expected gore, but damn, starting out with infanticide? That's rare as fuck.
Here I was assuming the egg'd survive, be raised alone by some unsuspecting group, and we'd have the hero's tale.
Instead, we had the BBEG chuck an egg off a cliff, killing one of the star-destined protagonists right off the gate, to which our group of legend-makers say "Shit, let's go capture a different kid then", and make do with a sudden replacement from a completely different tribe than their prophecy dictated.

That last part brings me to another observation some;
Every single adult dragon we meet, at least so far a good third the way through, is an asshole.
Your factions are murderous queens, kidnapping baby torturers, and oddly seductive murderous queens.
Might be the voice actor, but Scarlet got a rather poignant portrayal.
Still a massive asshole, but I at least enjoyed her 'screentime' so to speak.

So far, my favourite character's been Tsunami.
Definitely has a nice style to her, and I appreciate her retention of more 'dragony' character.

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