Axinstone

Destiny of Dragons, Book 1

De: J.F.R. Coates

Narrado por: Nico Janssen

Book 1: The Destiny of Dragons, and the first entry in the Farenar Saga. Anzig struggles to live up to the reputation of his legendary father, but he has his chance when he must represent their clan at the greatest gathering of dragons in a generation. Anzig brings news of a human invasion and a please for assistance to fight this old enemy. The last thing Anzig expects is to volunteer for a suicidal mission deep into human territory to retrieve the lost artefact, the Axinstone. On the advice of an outcast seer, Anzig must take his seven companions across the mountains into great danger where a monstrous spectre haunts their dreams. The fate of dragonkind rests upon his wings. Without the Axinstone, they seem doomed to fall.

©2023 J.F.R. Coates (P)2024 J.F.R. Coates

Reads like Middle Book

For the first book of the series it felt like it was the second book. I only managed to get 3-4 hours in before I had to give up and return it. But it felt like I was dropped midway through a series and didn't get any time to learn much of anything outside of what might be the main dragon has anxiety about leading, and some dragons are under mind control somehow.

Fantasy books want to show and not tell allow for the reader to figure things out and having most things understood own their own. This book makes it very hard to get that far and the character voices and what feels like constant switching perspectives in a single chapter do not help.

I could hardly tell some characters apart when we switched views cause their voices were far too similar. And when they dragons left on this big journey it felt...rushed? Felt WAY less important then it was as we hadn't built connections to most of these characters or the conflicts that are involved and kept going back to the other dragons way too soon. Building up 1-3 characters and the world understanding for the first half of this book would have helped tons, and the second half being the start of the journey but getting to even to the 1/4 mark of the this book was a big of a struggle.