Review: Dragonborn

Dragonborn by Toby Forward
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

At page 144 I give up. We made it almost to 50%, but it's not only not getting better, it's actually getting worse and worse. My son is at the stage where he can read picture books himself, but they no longer interest him. So we moved on to bigger novels and read a few pretty books about dragons. The first three Harry Potter books were swallowed in a blink. But this... The plot is way to scratchy to interest a kid. The characters are... Were there characters? Some dirty and amazingly not-self-aware kid that moves around with no obvious intention. Some mysterious "evil" lurking in a huge prison. And a bunch of idiotic wizards so easily swayed, it's amazing. And yes, a dragon we know nothing about. The motives of any of them are unclear. And that's only the beginning. The biggest downfall of this book is descriptions, which are non-existent. And kids' books should be all about descriptions! In this particular case even my, fully developed, imagination was not enough to picture what's going on in any detail. The most I can say is I can follow the plot more or less (and I cannot say that about my son), but I can't imagine that world. This is one of those books that seems designed to kill a reader in a kid. So get rid of it before it's too late!

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