
The Dragon's Egg
Dragonfall, Book 1
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Narrado por:
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Derek Perkins
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De:
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David A. Wells
Seventy-five years ago, the dragons fell from the sky. We thought they were just meteorites - six terrifying explosions rang the world like a bell. When the dust settled, we went on with our lives as though nothing had happened.
More than a decade later, five of the eggs hatched. The dragons that emerged were small and weak. They kept to the shadows, working in secret to persuade people to do their bidding, offering magic as payment and reward. Years passed...and still we didn't notice the evil growing in our midst.
The war began suddenly. Survivors called it the "apocalypse" - nine billion people killed in an afternoon. Then the dragons revealed themselves, burning huge swaths of what remained, taunting and mocking and murdering the survivors.
Four leaders arose: the Wizard, the Dragon Rider, the Monk, and the Dragon Slayer. Allied with the rebel dragon, they waged war for years until they, too, were defeated, scattered, or killed.
When the war ended, only one dragon remained...but that single dragon was enough to plunge the world into tyranny.
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a good solid start
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a very fun listen!
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Liked it. but didn't LOVE it
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Great story
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Must Read
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definitely recommend this story
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loved it!
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got me to work each day a little happier
great book
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That said, there are a few elements that I didn't love. First, I understand how a character like Frank contributes to the plot, but to me he's just over the top. After the first dozen asinine things he does that result in near catastrophe for everyone, you'd think he'd realize he doesn't know anything he thinks he knows and just shut up, or someone would shut him up.
Second, the author tries, to great effect, to incorporate some real world elements into the story. That's one of the things I liked about it. I only wish he'd done better research on, or taken fewer liberties with, the realities of fighting with firearms, especially when those firearms are in the hands of characters who have little to no experience with them.
Third, the author makes heavy use of an element that has become a very popular trope in all sorts of modern fictional entertainment media from books to movies to TV shows. The cliche goes that our righteous and moral hero has a strong aversion to employing deadly force against his enemies, because every truly moral person knows that killing is wrong no matter what. Alternatively, our hero has a moral, righteous mentor who admonishes the hero on the moral pitfalls of killing, and that the act invariably leaves black stains on the soul or results in psychological trauma which forever alter a person in fundamental and tragic ways. It seems to be a device writers use to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in a story where violence is intrinsic in the conflict. The message is that, yeah, the heroes and villains are both killing, but you know the heroes are good because they really really don't like it, and if it stops bothering them it's because their souls are becoming black as soot! My problem with this trope isn't just that it's a trope, but it's also promoting a narrative about morality and human psychology that is essentially false. The underlying assumption that good, moral people abhor killing and people who aren't bothered by killing are evil, or at least morally ambiguous, is contradicted by real world sociological and psychological research on the topic. The truth is there are highly moral people who have no qualms with employing deadly force, and there are terribly immoral people who are strongly averse to it. There's just so much more to the topic than is reflected in this and almost every other modern work of fictional that touches on it. I really wish writers would ditch the trope, delve into the actual research that's out there, and give a more honest portrayal of this relatively rare human experience.
Great book, but I have a few qualms
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great story
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