Listen! For the song of Owen Thorskard has a second verse. Every dragon slayer owes the Oil Watch a period of service, and young Owen was no exception. What made him different was that he did not enlist alone. His two closest friends stood with him shoulder to shoulder. Steeled by success and hope, the three were confident in their plan. And though Siobhan McQuaid was the first bard in a generation, she managed to forge a role for herself and herald Owen as a new kind of dragon slayer for a new kind of future. But the arc of history is long and hardened by dragon fire. Try as they might, Owen and his friends could not twist it to their will. Not all the way. Not all together. Listen! I am Siobhan McQuaid. I know the cost of even a small bend in the course of history. Listen!
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I wanted to like this more since I really enjoyed the first book. I still loved Siobhan's voice, but the book mostly lacked plot, and the twist at the end: NO. I don't understand it in terms of the world that was built. It seems to serve no real purpose and left me with more questions than answers. It also felt manipulative. Like it was only there to elicit emotion, but since it wasn't tied to any greater purpose that I could discern, it was unearned emotion. There also seemed to be a lot of setup for potential political conspiracies and shadowy henchmen that just never really materialized. Which again left me wondering at the point of the whole tale at all.
