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3.0 out of 5 stars
So-so, December 4, 2009
This review is from: Dragon Rule: Book Five of The Age of Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
As the fourth book in this series, I loved it. Unfortunately it was both a thrilling and a frustrating experience. I won't touch on the plot except to say that it was intensely satisfying, even as a bridge to the final novel; I've always loved politics more than battle, and this fits the bill very nicely. The writing, editing and general construction, however, let it down.
As with the fourth book, one gets the feeling that the author has written most of it at the last minute: it is plagued with fragmented sentences, odd passages that lead to nowhere, strange shifts in perspective and many embarassing typographical errors (though I understand this speaks more to the quality of the copyeditor than the author).
This shouldn't happen. The quality of the first three books was exceptional; the fourth and fifth are exercises in frustration, especially when the excessively irritating fragmented sentences and inconsistent characterisation (since when did one character in particular suddenly become another's "staunch ally"? If you know to what I refer, that was particularly left-field) throw you out of the story with frowns and mutterings of "huh?"
You can do better, E. E. Knight. You HAVE done better. I will still rush out and buy Dragon Fate as soon as it hits the shelves, but please try and not make it a disappointing experience.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Too many typos, March 31, 2010
This review is from: Dragon Rule: Book Five of The Age of Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
I am a big fan of the Age of Fire series by E.E. Knight, and really enjoyed reading the first four books in the series. Naturally, when the fifth book was released (and on a side note, there will also be a sixth), I was eager to read it.
Overall it is a good book, with very well-thought-out characters, landscapes, and actions. Besides being a bit too short of a book, which results in some scenes ending abruptly, my only real complaint was in the absurd amount of typographic errors throughout the book. I don't mean little typos either, like 'teh' instead of 'the'. I mean serious flaws in editing, like confusing character names and reversing gender pronouns, especially during moments of dialogue.
Now I don't know if my copy happened to be a first run and so these errors were missed, or maybe the copy editor was on vacation and some assistant didn't do his/her job properly, but there were enough errors/mix-ups throughout the book to make me have to do constant double takes and re-read lines to figure out who was actually talking.
All in all, I would still recommend the series to anyone who enjoys a clever story about dragons.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Story, Needs a little editing, January 28, 2010
This review is from: Dragon Rule: Book Five of The Age of Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
I've read Books 1 through 5 and enjoyed them all but it seems like the editing quality went downhill with the last two - typos and misused pronouns, confusion about which character is speaking. Errors like that take me back out of what would otherwise be an engrossing story. I hope the last book in the series will be much improved in that regard.
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