Donita K. Paul the author of the book, The Dragons of Chiril (previously released as The Vanishing Sculptor) is quite clever in how she ended the story. At first I wasn't completely pulled into the story because the characters seemed a bit flat and didn't stand out enough to make me care or like them. But as I kept reading it I learned more about some of them that had me rooting for certain characters.
I really enjoy Beccaroon, a giant parrot, the Wizard Fenworth, and the tumanhofer librarian, Librettowit. They had me smiling and enjoying their moments in the book while the others seem to lack depth. For example Bealomondore, an aristocratic young artist. When he appeared I only had a gimps of what he's like but after that I didn't feel his character grew and I nearly forgot that he was apart of the group. Honesty, he felt more like a tag along, only helping when he's needed and I hoped that there would have been something between Tipper and him. It would have been an interesting relationship with how rocky their first meeting was like.
Anyway, it was only towards the ending that I started to enjoy the book. It felt like it was was too soon to end but at the same time, it was ended at at such a high note that it would make readers wish they could have kept going. So to me it was a clever way to end it with a happy ending but at the same time has a lot of questions that the readers wish to know.
Even with some characters lacking depth, this was certainly entertaining and does a fine job in transporting you to a fantasy world. I hope that I can get a chance to read the second book of this series so that I may know what will happen next and if the characters grow since this is only the begining.
WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group provided this book to me for free in exchange for this honest review as part of their Blogging for Books program.
 DamnBlackHeart · Sat Jul 02, 2011 @ 09:41pm · 0 Comments |
