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With a Golden Sword — Rachel Aaron
To the Bloody End — Rachel Aaron
Last Dragon Standing — Rachel Aaron
Considering this was the shortest book of the series, it seemed to drag on much more than the previous books.
Once again, like most of the series, Rachel seems to just like filling pages with belabouring conversations when we’re in the middle of seriously important stuff to do. One can’t help but wonder just how much of the problems faced by our characters in this series would have been avoided if they just got on with things instead of continuously stopping to have a conversation about something completely unimportant.
It gets quite ridiculous when it takes 4 times as long to read about something happening than the something happening is taking to happen because everyone has to have a conversation about something before anything can finish happening.
But, none the less, i got to the end because — belabouring conversations aside — it is a rather good tale. It is such a shame that it wasn’t edited more strictly and seriously cropped to keep things moving along.
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A Dragon of a Different Color — Rachel Aaron
Moving along from the first four books, Rachel throws in ever more magical beasties, deeper plots and characters.
All good, and now it’s time to read the last book in the series, which just happens to be the very shortest by a long way.
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No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished — Rachel Aaron
Yeah . . .
. . . one more of these huge books is read, only two more to go. My goodreads book reading tally is going to look a bit sad after this series: i was a few books ahead of my 70 book per year schedule when i started this series, i am now 6 books behind schedule and soon to be more when i finish the series. But, ho hum, i think it’s very worth it.
This book picked up a bit with a few extra elements being thrown into the mix: various spirits, mages and other things besides, and i’m thoroughly enjoying the whole experience.
So yeah, keep on reading the earlier books when you feel they drag on a little as it’s all pays off well in the end.
And now it’s straight into A Dragon of a Different Color, which is the penultimate tome of dragonistic adventures.
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One Good Dragon Deserves Another — Rachel Aaron
Still the same feeling that i was getting with Nice Dragons Finish Last, in that the pacing is still annoying me a bit. I think it’s totally to do with there being so much going on in these books with so many great characters that sometimes the story takes one away from something that one really doesn’t want to be taken away from, leaving one chomping at the bit to get back to that one character’s story line, thus giving the impression that everything’s suddenly going slow and plodding along when it actually isn’t. And then, when you find youself back at that one character’s story line you’ve been aching to get to, you’ll more than likely find that you’re now chomping at the bit to get back to another character’s story.
But — guess what — you keep-on-reading-and-a-reading because these books are really, really good with plenty of really, really great characters.
Which, you guessed it, left me chomping at the bit to get started on No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished.
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Mother of the Year — Rachel Aaron
As usual i check the loc points when i open a book on my Kindle. This one said 800, so was obviously a short, but i was rather disappointed when it suddenly ended after 242 loc points and i find the rest is just a marketing exercise for a future book in the series. It’s a very short, short masquerading as a normal short.
But, ho hum, it was free for signing up to the mailing list so maybe i shouldn’t moan too much. But just as you’re getting into Bethesda’s character and you’re really looking forward to the other 3/4’s of the 800 loc points being filled with even more revealing stuff, you realise you’re not getting what you hoped so much for.
So what’s the 242 loc points about? Bethesda gets interviewed on another dragon’s chat show.
Sadly, only a little bit of background into Bethesda’s character, and her attitude towards her children, before moving onto the rest of the series: i so wished there was more.
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Nice Dragons Finish Last — Rachel Aaron
All mostly very enjoyable. My only moan is that some passages are a bit tedious: it’s like you just really want the pace to keep going but instead it slows right down to tell you what someone is thinking, or some long winded conversation, right in the middle of a load of fast moving chaos that you want to be enjoying in a fast pace way. I admit that i only felt like that a few times, so it’s not like the book is like that all the way through, and that’s probably why those few passages stand out so much as the rest of it is really on a good pace throughout.
So, yeah, that’s my only moan. Other than that, i really enjoyed it and i’m looking forward to more, and there’s certainly plenty more books in this series. Rachel really has done something wonderful with dragons in this dragon centric story, placing them in a dystopian capitalist environment as totally psychopathic creatures, essentially, the ultimate capitalists. And the dragon clans’ internal and external politics that get explored are really good.
Basically, everything you wanted to know about dragons but were too afraid to ask. Now doesn’t that sound like fun?
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Night Shift Dragons — Rachel Aaron
What a thoroughly good ending to a thoroughly good trilogy. It’s been well paced enjoyment all the way through, written/edited really well, great characters and a really great location.
Rachel does hint at the end of the book that she’ll be bringing us more stories from the DFZ at sometime, and i for one can’t wait. This trilogy certainly leaves a need for us to head back there at some point just to find out how Opal and Nik got on in their happily ever after.
And while i’m waiting for more DFZ books, i’ve got lots of other books by Rachel that i haven’t read yet, so i’m looking forward to clearing them out of my to-read-pile fairly soon.
Keep well, folks.
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Minimum Wage Magic — Rachel Aaron
The first book in the follow up trilogy to Heartstrikers. It does say at the beginning of this book that you don’t need to have read Heartstrikers to enjoy this trilogy, but there’s so much in this book that is predicated on what happened in Heartstrikers and i really think you’d be missing out on a whole lot of background and enjoyment if you didn’t read Heartstrikers first.
Plus the fact, Heartstrikers, although tedious in places, is a really good yarn and just worth reading for it’s own sake.
So, anyway, this trilogy begins a few years after the events of Heartstrikers and the DFZ is now relatively calmed down after all those shenanigans. Part of the being relatively calm is that the spirit of the DFZ has become rather strict on her tenants and anyone a month late in their rent gets their place cleaned out by “cleaners” and taken back by the DFZ to rent to someone else.
Basically, there are auctions twice a day for places to clean, and the cleaners go and bid for them. Whatever is in a place then becomes the property of the cleaner who wins the auction for it. The cleaner also has one month to get the place to the standards the DFZ sets to rent it out again. If it’s not fit for re-rental in that month the cleaner has to pay that month’s rent.
A bit like those people who buy storage units, but with magic traps and all kinds of other weird stuff lurking around.
This book is about one of those cleaners. A cleaner who owes a lot of money and who keeps winning auctions on places that fail to turn a profit.
But maybe, this one day, her luck is about to change and she can pay off her debts and be free. Or maybe not, you’ll just have to read and see.
It’s really good. And all those tedious bits i kept moaning about in the Heartstrikers books, the ones that kept slowing the pace down, well they aren’t in this book. And those tedious bits were my only complaint about Rachel’s writing before. So yeah, super good stuff and i dived straight into book 2, Part Time Gods.
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Part-Time Gods — Rachel Aaron
If you enjoyed the first book in this trilogy then you’ll enjoy this one just as much.
Once again, Rachel keeps the action moving along at a good pace with none of those annoying delays we had in Heartstrikers.
I’m enjoying it so much that i’m diving straight into book three, Night Shift Dragons, only pausing briefly to write this review.
Super good stuff.