The Rage of Dragons

The one hour i listened to was divided as such:
- 70% action scenes
- 30% stating proper names, of characters, places, groups of people, etc.

The naming scheme was VERY offsetting, it was some African/Spanish combination.

The author failed to create an empathic protagonist by naming dozens of characters, I couldn't tell who I was suppose to care about. It has become common for reviewers to say “oh, the first few dozen of pages is crap, but keep reading it and you'll be rewarded”. I'm not one with patience for that. The books I like have me hooked form the first sentence up to a maximum of the first page.

The prologue was interesting, but it followed a way too common pattern that I hate: make a good prologue, proceed to a over the top boring nothing related to it first chapter.

A group of people arrived at a foreign land looking for a place to live. Instead of a typical colonization, they have been forced to leave their homeland or be annihilated by some not yet revealed reason.

They faced a never before crossed sea, and on arrival, they met a fierce resistance by the natives, who wielded some form of magic different and more powerful than theirs.

They managed to defeat them by calling upon the aid of their dragons, something that was very risky for them to do. Still, most of their people have been killed in the battle.

Then chapter one starts, 184 years latter.


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