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Dragon Wytch (Sisters of the Moon, Book 4)
written by Yasmine Galenorn
Studio : Berkley
by Berkley
Publisher : Berkley
Released : 2008-07-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780425222393
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 19 reviews)
List Price : $7.99
Our Price : $3.78
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Product Description |
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The D’Artigo sisters are half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Camille is doing her best to juggle magic, men, and the demonic war into which they’ve been thrust—until she discovers a secret that could change all their lives. |
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boring |
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I have been reading this series from the start and thoroughly enjoyed them up until this point. I managed to make it to page 106 in Dragon Wytch and had to put it down before I fell asleep from boredom, again. I've come to realize that I don't like Camille. Her every man wants me because I'm so beautiful and sexy attitude is annoying. She's bossy and demanding and yet accomplishes nothing except sit around drinking tea at various establishments. Yet, Galenorn contradicts these very aspects she has establish by throwing in dialogue from other characters who tell Camille that she is alot stronger, better, and beautiful than she believes she is. Even more than she "thinks" she is? How extraordinary! That would be huge! Regardless, I normally can continue reading a book even when I don't like the character, but I could not get past the fact that nothing, and I mean nothing happened action wise in over 100 pages. I say again, BORING! |
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This book is just...bad... |
I picked this up hoping for a nice supernatural read. I am a fan of Patricia McKillip's Mercy novels and her new spinoff werewolf series.
However, this book just seems to lack any kind of coherent structure and is bogged down in unresolved issues, too many characters, and a "heroine" who is inconsistant.
The most annoying aspect of the novel is the amount of name dropping of creatures and "people". Even if you have read the previous novels, this gets ridiculous as one character would say "I wish...*insert name here*...was here" and then to follow the name would be a paragraph or two of how the character knows this person (or critter). This goes on and on...
There are so many problems amounting while the characters do little more than talk about how exhausted they are and sip various blends of tea. About a hundred pages in and they are still dawdling around you realize that these world shifting problems are not going to find resolution of any sort before the book concludes, which is frustrating at best. I don't see this series wrapping up for another half dozen books at this pacing, and the characters are not compelling enough to want to carry on.
Alot of it is ridiculous too. I understand the not-of-this-world aspect, and that unicorns are not going to be having lunch in your real world backyard, but supposed the Fae and "fantasy creatures" are new to this modern setting and the humans are just taking it in stride, even though two headed trolls are tearing their parks apart and whatnot. Do you see the human race putting up with this in such a short period of time? I think not. The backlash would be greater than some clueless police force blundering around trying to keep order. This is never explored and just kind of glossed over.
There are much better books on the market in this style. I did like that the author pulled characters from a variety of mythologies instead of just leaning on the typical ones, and I hope in future books she can flesh these out more and make them more interesting aside from having silly catfights and serving tea. The world built here is interesting and has alot of potential. It's just potential that is thus far, unrealized. Sadly. |
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Fantasy plus! |
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Usually books in series fail to hold up to expectations as you go through each book. However this one delievers! Looking forward to reading forth-coming intallments. |
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Dragon Wytch |
Camille is doing all she can to cope with the stress in her life, what with being, along with her sisters, Guardians of the Earth against an invasion of the Demon hordes; dealing with a pushy, dangerous dragon that wants her in his bed; and the sudden surge of goblins, trolls and all manner of nasty magical beings appearing on Earth - Camille barely has time to sleep. But when the Unicorn Prince shows up on her doorstep with a request and a gift, Camille feels herself sinking deeper into unknown territory in her battle against evil. Also Camille can not ever forget that her Moon Magic is as likely to go haywire as to do what she intended, all the while more tasks and duties are placed upon her shoulders.
Now, Camille and her sisters must continue to search for the Spirit Seals needed to keep the demons locked away in their own world. But in the meantime, they also must deal with Demon Lords suddenly appearing in town, the awakening of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts on Earth, and the disappearance of one of the members of Camille's triad.
Will Camille and her sisters triumph in their Herculean task of defeating the Demons? Or will they be crushed to dust like the rest of humanity?
I must start off by saying that my experience with Dragon Wytch was definitely tainted by not having read the previous books in the series. Many "givens" within the plot and the characters were not understood nor did they offer the intended depth and emotion. That said, Dragon Wytch is an urban fantasy that is chock full of all the elements of a great fantasy book - plenty of action, varied and powerful magical beings, unexplored or recently discovered talents and an epic battle of good versus evil. However, in spite of these strong underpinnings to the story I found Camille to be a pale imitation of Ms. Hamilton's Meredith Gentry series, with the collection of lovers and dangerous politics. It never clearly came across how or why Camille was so deeply attached to her main lovers - Trillian and Morio - to create any interest in them outside of their roles as magical and emotional support to Camille. But the real mystery to me is the eventual role of Smoky as a main love interest to Camille, since she spends almost the entire time she is around him in fear that he will do physical harm to her due to his draconic temper and her assertive character. Camille herself has such wild swings in her behavior as to make her incomprehensible at best and unintelligent at worst, which left me baffled most of the time and tired of her antics by the end of the book. Dragon Wytch is an action packed fantasy tale that fails to deliver on most fronts, ending in the middle of the magical action, leaving almost all of the important issues to be obviously resolved in further installments of the series, but only after having taken seemingly every detour possible within the plot. In the end I found Dragon Wytch a lack-luster read with characters that lacked depth, were unbelievable and boring despite the great promise shown at first glance.
Sabella
reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed |
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Pretty good fantasy sequel |
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I was a little leery of what the author planned to do since each of the three previous books was from the viewpoint of one of the sisters, which was disorientating, and now we have a fourth book but no fourth sister. Well, to keep it simple, we circled back to the same viewpoint as the first book. All in all though this is a very light and entertaining book that needs to be taken at face value and not delved for deeper meaning. |
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