Dragon's Tongue
I finished reading this book two days ago. I’ve been procrastinating when it comes to writing about it because there’s not a whole lot I can do to make it funny. It’s a pretty standard fantasy romp that has been executed well. I found little about the story itself objectionable. The writing occasionally tries to be more clever than the author is capable of but it never gets painfully self indulgent. But just when I think there’s nothing to say about Dragon’s Tongue, I remember the introduction.
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Wolfblade
Sometimes all you want to do is curl up with a cherished book that you’ve read a couple of times before, filled with characters that have become so familiar to you that turning the pages is like saying “Hello, old friend, I’ve missed you.” But instead you pick a random fantasy novel at the library and quickly realize that you are reading the works of someone who read a book that you cherished and thought “I CAN DO THAT!” and now your old friends are slightly off and seem to be slowly turning into Deep Ones. I’d lay down good money that Jennifer Fallon read the Song of Ice and Fire series and was just so inspired she had to make her own version of Martin’s tale. It’s an amusing and frustrating blend of “I can make this a little cleaner and easier to understand and get rid of all that nasty incest,” and “I can be just as savage to my characters has he can!” But that’s not to say that the whole story is a retelling of ASOIAF.
The Serpent Bride
The back cover of this book called it the beginning of an epic trilogy similar to Goodkind and Jordan. So when I cracked open this book I settled in for a history-and-setting dominated, meandering tale where little would happen since it was only the first book. Overwrought descriptions of minor details, each character being loaded down with physical quirks or habits that have to be mentioned every time they appear, perhaps a couple of obnoxious accents. Boy, was I surprised.
