A review by kittyg
The Dragonslayer's Sword by Resa Nelson
2.0
* I read this as I'm a judge for the #SPFBO *
Honestly, this book was so weird. Everything seemed very disjointed and had no real rhyme or reason. I feel like this started out as short stories with the same main character, but then when in book form it never really got melded together properly so there are many instances where there seems to be a lack of clarification.
This story follows Astrid, a girl from a place which is awful. She's scarred and scared that no one will buy her from the child taker who bought her to sell. She doesn't want to die but she's shown kindness by a Dragonslayer... From there, her story begins.
Now I really think there's cool ideas here but the nature of the story is so discombobulated that it makes no real impact as a tale. I think the book is different in style from many others and it may work for some because of that, but to me it was problematic and didn't flow at all.
I also found a fair few typos in this one.
Overall, not a bad story if you took each chapter as a tiny disjointed one, but as a book it didn't work for me. 2*s
Honestly, this book was so weird. Everything seemed very disjointed and had no real rhyme or reason. I feel like this started out as short stories with the same main character, but then when in book form it never really got melded together properly so there are many instances where there seems to be a lack of clarification.
This story follows Astrid, a girl from a place which is awful. She's scarred and scared that no one will buy her from the child taker who bought her to sell. She doesn't want to die but she's shown kindness by a Dragonslayer... From there, her story begins.
Now I really think there's cool ideas here but the nature of the story is so discombobulated that it makes no real impact as a tale. I think the book is different in style from many others and it may work for some because of that, but to me it was problematic and didn't flow at all.
I also found a fair few typos in this one.
Overall, not a bad story if you took each chapter as a tiny disjointed one, but as a book it didn't work for me. 2*s