What Are You Reading or Planning to Read?

[Dustin, Wyrm Master]

What are you reading or looking forward to reading soon?

Doesn't have to involve dragons.

[Maggie]

Hi! I'm Maggie, I just joined. I'm currently reading Broken Blade by Kelly McCullough. It's interesting because it's about an assassin, but he has a "familiar", or spirit animal, that's a dragon (seemed fitting for this discussion) that hides in his shadow. The level of description the author uses can be a drag sometimes, but it's worth it to get to the good parts!

[Leira]

Hi! I love dragons, and when i see the group I cannot resist and i join in it. I'm actually reading 'The Bad Beggining', first of the 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' series, written by Lemony Snicket. I love the old film with Jim Carrey, and I see two episodes of the show on Netflix so, at least, i Need to read the series.

Talking about dragons, i'm curious: what good books/series about dragons do you know? I read Eragon, Seraphina, Rogue (just the first one, for now) and Firelight. I know another kid's series on the dragons, but nothing else. Any advise?

[Dustin, Wyrm Master]

Temeraire and Age of Fire (not for young readers) are really good, imo, if you want "real" dragons. (aka: Dragons that don't turn into humans.)

If you don't mind shape-shifting dragons in a science fiction /fantasy world then Heartstriker is good pretty good too.

Wings of Fire is supposedly pretty good too. It might be the kids series you mentioned. I intend to start it soon.

I also intend to read another one called Tooth and Claw.

[Cassandra]

I've read Wings of Fire (it was ok) and probably would have liked it better age 10. (I'm 17 now). You're right about shapeshifting dragons, but I reckon Firelight is just pretty bad. Rogue is ok but the dragons feel like humans-who-turn-into-dragons rather than -dragons-who-turn-into-humans.

Seraphina is an excellent read if you are interested in dragon/human shapeshifters. Also Wyrmeweald, although that is more of a hybrid situation.

I haven't heard of Tooth and Claw, what sort of dragon book is it?

SeraphinaReturner's Wealth

[Dustin, Wyrm Master]

I don't mind shape-shifting dragons, but it does seem more like a superpower in most cases where humans turn into dragons, as you said, and still act like humans. Its fine, just feels a bit lazy.

Seraphina was an exception and very good.

Cassandra wrote: "I haven't heard of Tooth and Claw, what sort of dragon book is it?"

It's odd. The summary explains it better than I could. I just heard that it was different.

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I forgot about The Dragon Keeper . It's not focused on dragons like the others, but they are present in most of the story. Like in Seraphina, a main character is a human girl with dragon scales who travels through a fantasy world with a group of deformed dragons to find a lost city.

[Cassandra]

Dragon Keeper is excellent, the portrayal of dragons in Robin Hobb's universe is really interesting - basically they are there to be as arrogant as humans and remind humans that we shouldn't necessarily be masters of the world.

[Dustin, Wyrm Master]

Dragons are like the parents-in-law of fantasy. People whine about how they never seem to leave, but the problem is often that they're rarely there for a purpose. They just show up for a few minutes and leave and come back a few days later. I don't know if that makes sense.

I read many posts about dragon fiction and its always the same few stories being recommended again and again.

[Dustin, Wyrm Master]

Leira wrote: "Any advise?"

You might like the Raksura books They're aren't dragons exactly, but humanoid creatures with dragon features. Scales, claws, spines, tails, and wings.