XolokReads reviewed Dawn of the Aspects by Richard A Knaak (World of Warcraft, #12)
Imagine a Lord of the Rings spin-off where a Hobbit child reacts to the backstory of the eagles who are also children. They aren't anthropomorphized though. They have the brains of actual eagles more or less.
1 star
Knaak writes more convincing and relatable primative dragons than people. 95% of this book is dragons hissing simple sentences to each other like toddlers while another character witnessing it reacts constantly forgetting that they can do nothing to influence what is happening. The other 5% is some framing device that is a struggle to care about. There's no real reason given why we should be invested in what happens. With the framing device, I guess we want the dragon characters to be happy, but we also already know what happens in the main story because it's a flashback. Oh, and can a book about precocious dragon kids still be sexist? The answer will not surprise you!
