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King's Dragon (Crown of Stars, Vol. 1)
by Kate Elliott

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  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22309478?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>It's okay.  This is your basic sprawling fantasy story that happens to be set in a world where there is some war and some invasion but without the single hero that kills everything and wins the lady.  No, things are a tad more complicated than that.  However, this story does fall to some of the most obnoxious clichés found in fantasy - specifically the love at first site between people that shouldn't have anything to do with each other.  Oh, and the death of a family member causes heroine to be sold into slavery and all the mess that goes with that.  Of course the heroine obviously has some special abilities but walks around scared all the time.  And complicated sentences.  Not only are there a lot of commas, albeit grammatically correct (unlike mine), but she even has to use dashes.  Dashes!
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<br/>It's a very thick book with a lot of detail but full of faults.  The writing isn't bad.  The characters aren't totally one dimensional.  The clichés are familiar.  I'd call it popcorn reading if it wasn't so long. 
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<br/>So this series is average at best but there is at least one of the story lines that I am still interested in so I will probably keep reading.  It just isn't going to be on my priority list.
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It's okay. This is your basic sprawling fantasy story that happens to be set in a world where there is some war and some invasion but without the single hero that kills everything and wins the lady. No, things are a tad more complicated than that. However, this story does fall to some of the most obnoxious clichés found in fantasy - specifically the love at first site between people that shouldn't have anything to do with each other. Oh, and the death of a family member causes heroine to be sold into slavery and all the mess that goes with that. Of course the heroine obviously has some special abilities but walks around scared all the time. And complicated sentences. Not only are there a lot of commas, albeit grammatically correct (unlike mine), but she even has to use dashes. Dashes!

It's a very thick book with a lot of detail but full of faults. The writing isn't bad. The characters aren't totally one dimensional. The clichés are familiar. I'd call it popcorn reading...more

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