Dragon Soul

3.5 stars. This series started strong, but for some reason this third book failed to grab me in the same way. Part of the problem is that the authors introduce 2 new female POV characters, both with 3-sylable fantasy names beginning with "Ma..." This is mildly confusing at first, and one of the two......more

I will say off the bat, that if you've read either prequel and decide, three books in, you have qualms with tones and profanity you're a fucking tit. Just a point of fact. Like the books previous, this has a unique, rotating albeit jarring 1st-person POV that pushes the plot forward at a compelling p......more

Dragonsoul is the third series novel but a direct sequel to Havemercy and features Thom and Rook as pov's in addition to Madoka, a Ke-Han girl form an obscure village that becomes a hardened scavenger and when she finds a powerful magical object in the ruins of the capital, she attracts lots of unwe......more

If only one of the protagonists of “Dragon Soul” (Spectra, $26, 400 pages) wasn’t such a completely unattractive anti-hero – violent, irrational, angry, no human feelings (or feelings for humans, in any event) and so repellent you keep hoping someone will kill him – I’d urge readers to go back to th......more

I'm a huge fan of the authors, but I have to say that I was quite disappointed by this book. I feel as though they used up the bulk of their ideas on the previous books, and the characters in this one-- even Rook, whom I adore-- felt fairly lackluster. My main complaint, though, is Madoka, who made......more