She lost me from the very beginning. I was never given a good reason for this group of people to >! Send a large batch of their newly “of age” children through a gauntlet where most of them would die just so only a few would be left for dragons to pair with. It didn’t make any sense, especially when you learn later that if kids don’t get paired in their first year, they just hang out and try again!🫠 why did all of those other kids have to die??? IDK 🤷. I couldn’t understand why they didn’t just train everyone and let the dragons take their pick. The urgency and necessity of the gauntlet just doesn’t make any sense! If this war is so bad, why kill off what I assume are necessary soldiers?🙄 It also leads to the realization, once you learn the plot twist, of just how needlesly sadistic the people in power are, they know that literally NONE of it is necessary the only part I sort of enjoyed was the relationship between her and her dragons and that didn’t get showcased often enough to save the rest of the book (also I’ve read human/dragon bond better honestly, Naomi Novik’s temeraire books come to mind)!< I’ve honestly read too much excellent fan fiction to be overly impressed by this book. Booktok Recs are 0 for 3 right now.
She lost me from the very beginning. I was never given a good reason for this group of people to >! Send a large batch of their newly “of age” children through a gauntlet where most of them would die just so only a few would be left for dragons to pair with. It didn’t make any sense, especially when you learn later that if kids don’t get paired in their first year, they just hang out and try again!🫠 why did all of those other kids have to die??? IDK 🤷. I couldn’t understand why they didn’t just train everyone and let the dragons take their pick. The urgency and necessity of the gauntlet just doesn’t make any sense! If this war is so bad, why kill off what I assume are necessary soldiers?🙄 It also leads to the realization, once you learn the plot twist, of just how needlesly sadistic the people in power are, they know that literally NONE of it is necessary the only part I sort of enjoyed was the relationship between her and her dragons and that didn’t get showcased often enough to save the rest of the book (also I’ve read human/dragon bond better honestly, Naomi Novik’s temeraire books come to mind)!< I’ve honestly read too much excellent fan fiction to be overly impressed by this book. Booktok Recs are 0 for 3 right now.