Dragon Fury Review (Spoilers, obviously)
-Â âTHIS IS FOR THE ALEX.â Everything about this was just amazing. Going into the book I had been hoping one of the Stowes would kill the Revinir, but honestly, this was better. Spike is amazing, and I think itâs really fitting that Alexâs creation is the one who killed the Revinir.
- That moment between Aaron and Samheed was great. They very clearly donât like each other, but Iâm glad they were able to get over their differences.
- Drock becoming the Dragon Ruler! Heâs clearly earned it, and Iâm happy something finally went right for him.
- Dev and Asha being siblings and descended from Ashguard. I definitely saw it coming, but I still liked that Dev has family.
- Maiven Taveer being a badass queen while also being an old lady. Everything about her is awesome.
- Simber. Just being Simber.Â
- The afterlife. Especially the Alex and Aaron moments. They have one of the most complicated relationships in the books, and Iâm so happy about what it came to. Iâm also glad it ended with Alex and Aaron vs Fifer and Thisbe. Seeing the dead characters was great (Meghan!!!!), and Aaronâs being forgiven by Eva and Marcus was beautifully written.
- Fifer x Dev. Why, why, why. Fifer was very clearly touch repulsed and aroace-coded, and then all of a sudden she just... kisses Dev. Dev x Seth would have made way more sense.
- Rohbe. Maiven, who is Thisbeâs biological grandmother, adopted Rohan, so... incest. Theyâre also just... ugh. Rohan has no personality besides loving Thisbe, so while she is a great character, heâs pretty one-dimensional.
- The treatment of gay characters. There are two gay couples in the series: Henry x Thatcher and Clementi x Asha (both of which I absolutely love). Only Henry gets a POV that is ridiculously short, especially since he was a main character in the original series. Neither couple gets any moments together, and Clementi and Thatcher each have like two lines of dialogue. They were completely sidelines, and Lisa clearly only included them so she could say that she has LGBT+ representation.
- Seth x Prindi? WHY? There was no point to this unnecessary het couple. Prindi barely has a role in the story, and we haven't seen her and Seth interact once. Like I said in my point about Fifer and Dev, Seth and Dev would have made way more sense as a couple than either of these.
- Why does everyone need a love interest? In both The Unwanteds and The Unwanteds Quests, every major character gets a love interest, who is usually someone of the opposite gender. In the original series, we had Skylex, Lanheed, Aaron x Kaylee, Sean x Carina, Crow x Scarlet, etc. Even Florence had a male love interest, which is ridiculous. Then in Quests, we got Fifer x Dev, Thisbe x Rohan, Seth x Prindi, plus all of the couples I mentioned above.Â
So, looking back on everything I said: I liked the plot a lot, but I donât like the way some of the characters and romances were handled. I also think a huge problem is that Lisa just had too many characters. Fifer, Thisbe, Aaron, Dev, Rohan, and Seth were all in the center of focus, but there were awesome characters from the original series like Lani, Samheed, Carina, Sean, Kaylee, Sky, Crow, Claire, Henry, and Thatcher that were all sidelined, as well as new characters like Clementi, Asha, and Ibrahim that were sidelined as well. I enjoyed reading it, but there was a lot that could have been improved.
