The Dragon Heir

3.5 stars rounded up to 4.

This book was enjoyable, however, I think it lacked some things to make it a great book. The Dragon Heir highlighted several characters that were just boring.... namely Jason. He was one dimensional and just not a great character to follow. I was bored in several spots as the entirety of the book seemed only to “get going” around the climax of the book. I suppose that is to be expected as the characters themselves are just waiting for a war that may start at any unknown moment.

Side thought: It did raise the question in my mind of "what determines whether or not someone is worthy of the gift?" Like Longbranch and Willey were simply acting according to the time and culture that they were raised in. Of course they were slavers and bad people, however, what determines whether or not someone is bad. Perhaps they were the example to all of the other wizards and therefore served as a warning. That could make sense, because otherwise, most of the wizards would have their stones removed, as the book tells us that it's basically just those in Trinity that are the "good" wizards.

The book and worldbuilding does lack a little. I'm interesting in reading the next book and seeing where it goes.