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Writer's pictureCelia McMahon

Dragon Pearl-review

dragonpearl

304 pages

Expected publication: January 15th 2019 by Rick Riordan Presents

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to review this title.

This book follows thirteen-year-old Min who runs away from home in search of her brother who is suspected of desertion from the Space Force. She is also a fox with special powers. Most of the universe in this story have different abilities and appear as a human though they are different animals such as tigers and dragons.

I had to keep reminding myself that this was a middle-grade novel and all the sheer coincidences were, so the story wasn’t too complicated for younger audiences. Once I remembered that t the story took off for me. But something continued to drag, and I started to feel bored. The instances of situations happening just to add drama jarred me, as well as characters appearing that did not appear again in the story, which I would have liked a lot. Min made decisions so quickly, there was no build-up, as most of her choices lacked. The pacing was off. I also wanted more of other animals to appear. The dragons, for instance. The ending also irked me a lot. UGH

I can see how this would appeal to younger audiences, but as an adult reading it (and don’t get me wrong, I read a ton of MG books) it wasn’t doing it for me. There was a lot of potential for the story that never got there.


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