The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
Started: 15 October 2020
Finished: 29 December 2020
So. Reading in the latter half of 2020 turned out to be a challenge. Between attempting NaNoWriMo, increasing pandemic anxiety, the election, and day job stuff, my brain didn’t have space to turn off and read. I wouldn’t say it took me three months to read this book, because I barely picked it up in November.
I wanted to love every page of this book. It came recommended by many of my favorite authors and most of booktube as an action packed story with an expansive world. The truth, is that the prologue hooked me, but the next ~200 pages were such a slog I considered giving up. After starting with Queen Taifa, being stuck in the main character’s head, Tau, felt like a serious demotion. I struggled to connect to him, and the story didn’t pick up for me and compel me until much deeper into the page count. The Honestly, it was the Xhosa-inspired world that kept me going. I’m usually a character reader, but the world Winter set up was one I hope to spend many more books in exploring.
In the end, I was more relieved to finally finish Rage of Dragons, but it was a satisfying, action packed story as advertised. With dragons! (We all know how much I love dragons.)
2020 Reads:
- The Institute by Stephen King
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
- Rosemary and Rue: An October Daye Novel by Seanan McGuire
- The Kingdom of Copper by S. A. Chakraborty
- Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
- Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
- The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
- Race the Sands by Sarah Beth Durst
- Fireborne by Rosaria Munda
- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
- The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter