Review of The Legend of the Oceina Dragon by J.F. Jenkins
When she first sees Darien after the ceremony, she doesn’t expect to feel anything but hatred toward him. The two are struggling with the complications of a new marriage when their nation is attacked by a rival dragon species. Together they learn to love one another while they struggle to stay one step ahead in a game where the prize is their survival.
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I'm
not sure what to think of this book. When I started it I liked that it
read the same as a fairy tale story but it went downhill after the first
chapter I really started to hate it. Then, around page 110 I started to
enjoy it again. It was really bizarre.
The
writing style (barring the first chapter) is okay but needs some work. I
just wanted... more? I'd just be getting into a chapter and then it
would skip to the next, and it would be a day, a week later and that
made it difficult to connect with the story. I'd class this as older YA
as it feels more adult (plus there's sex in it). The story ends on a
cliff-hanger and I have to admit that books that do this are really
starting to annoy me.
Tai
was an interesting character. One minute she's yelling at Darien for
kidnapping her, the next she's humping him. Stockholm Syndrome? The
story is really lacking in plot for a good 70 pages; I can't even
remember what happened. I wanted to read about Tai settling in, getting
to know the characters more. Apart from Tai and Darien, I never really
understood any of the other characters as they didn't say much.
The
breeding and birth was an... interesting... one. To be honest, I've
never read anything so bizarre in my life, apart from Breaking Dawn.
There are no graphic descriptions of birth of sex but if you read this
you'll get what I mean.
The
dragon politics and the possibility of war was one I'd not normally
read a book for but in this it really felt like the plot was actually
moving somewhere! Until it stopped dead and now I have to read the next
one to find out what happens.
3/5
Received free from BLB Blog Tours in exchange for an honest review
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