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A review by alexangelas
Together We Burn by Isabel Ibañez
3.0
2.5
It wasn’t bad, but I couldn’t connect to the characters or the story. I wanted to like it, especially because it has loose similarities to How to Train Your Dragon but with a twist. In this book dragons are believed to be dangerous, fearsome creatures and are hunted, but more importantly either captured or bred to fight in a ring with a dragonador (think bullfighting w/ a matador). As an animal lover I’ve never been comfortable with the idea of bullfighting so I wasn’t comfortable with that aspect of the story, but thankfully the MCs attempted to change the opinions of their people. However, by then I honestly couldn’t have cared less about anything in this book. I didn’t hate it; I’m just wildly indifferent to it all.
I don’t know what it was, because it was a decently written story, but it just didn’t resonate with me.
It wasn’t bad, but I couldn’t connect to the characters or the story. I wanted to like it, especially because it has loose similarities to How to Train Your Dragon but with a twist. In this book dragons are believed to be dangerous, fearsome creatures and are hunted, but more importantly either captured or bred to fight in a ring with a dragonador (think bullfighting w/ a matador). As an animal lover I’ve never been comfortable with the idea of bullfighting so I wasn’t comfortable with that aspect of the story, but thankfully the MCs attempted to change the opinions of their people. However, by then I honestly couldn’t have cared less about anything in this book. I didn’t hate it; I’m just wildly indifferent to it all.
I don’t know what it was, because it was a decently written story, but it just didn’t resonate with me.