White Dragon

I'll leave a few comments since there aren't reviews any for this at the moment, though this is really a book for children (maybe age 8-10?) so I'm not quite the target demographic. When I was a kid, there were very few dragon books to choose from, and so seeing the options there are now-a-days is interesting for me. I think I would have loved this as a kid.

This is a pretty straight-forward good vs evil story. I enjoyed the plot and enough of the characters. It's a “Chosen One” type story where Benmoth the dragon is destined to save the lands from the forces of Darkness and he does. I would have appreciated if the story perspective was locked to Tanner and Benmoth, because jumping around to everyone left me feeling Tanner and his friends were unimportant, and that this was trying to be more of a movie than a novel.

I think the biggest flaw it has is titles; titles are very surface-level and often repetitive. “Dagon the Dark Dragon” is exhausting to read over and over, especially when it's often multiple times in the same paragraph, and coupled with “and his Dark Dragons,” “Dark Warriors”, “the Darkness,” and “The Scroll of Darkness.” I lost patience for all titles (including Elite Guardians) since they were simply over-used, as if the reader had forgotten the context of the current paragraph. So while the story itself was fine, reading it became a drag.

This book does have one of my favorite lines I've ever read:
"The sight of him sent her into shock. She let out a gasp, and a screech, and then she died."
10/10 line, didn't see it coming, shared it with my friends.