DNF: Dragonsbane, Servant Mage
Feb. 13th, 2023 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Continuing with "all dragon in the title or dragon-like things on the cover" books on my Kindle...
DNF #15: Dragonsbane (Winterlands Book 1) by Barbara Hambly. This book should have worked for me. Apparently it was about a middle aged no-longer-couple: A knight (who is a farmer when he's not needed, which is most of the time) and woman who is an untrained witch with "disappointingly puny powers".
Even though it was published in 1985, for some reason I had a really hard time with the writing. As if it were dated, but 1985 isn't that long ago (I was reading scifi books then, it's possible I read this one at the time).
DNF #16: Servant Mage by Kate Elliott. I got 27% through this book before giving up. Another book with writing style(?) issues. Even though it was traditionally published through a big publishing house (Macmillan), it was missing so many commas. The writing was really purple, too. I got to the point where I was mentally editing it more than reading it for enjoyment, so I just DNFed it.
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Date: 2023-02-14 08:16 pm (UTC)I think I'm going to give her another try somewhere down the road. I've heard such good things about her writing, maybe I'll be in the better mindset for the style later.