Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

8) Call me Dragon It's the Last Thing You'll Ever Do by Marc Secchia. I actually thought I was going to finish this one. I liked the dragon's voice a lot at first. The story follows a very nearsighted dragon (not an original idea, but still it was fun), but the "humor" in the book got worse and worse, more and more silly, and eventually it became too much for me.

9) Dragons of Wild by Ava Richardson. I knew I had read something by Ava Richardson before, but I couldn't remember if I had enjoyed it or not. This book was so poorly edited (more than one error/issue per page), and the story was flat and the characters boring, I DNFed it about 15% in.

Turns out I had read two books by her back in 2016. The first I had loved, of the second I had said "It shouldn't surprise me how easy it is to tell how much work and time an author put into a book. The first book in this series felt like she took a lot of time with it, carefully considered all the sentences and wording, had multiple people editing (beta reading) it for her. This book felt nothing like that."

This book felt the same as that second book. Like no care had been taken with it, no editing done of it. Typical self-published book. Sigh.

10) Dragonspeaker by Michael DeAngelo. While reading this, it felt just like a story set in some gaming system, like all the worldbuilding a reader would need was missing since they would have gotten it from the game.

Turns out that was partially right. I'm not even sure how to explain what this book "series" even is. "Tellest is an expanding fantasy world where your favorite fantasy characters connect across different books." Each author seems to be able to add a race to the world? I don't even know, but whatever it is, it didn't work.

In this book, some cat-people (humans with cat ears and tails) had to go find a dragon to bond with. Without any sense of the world at all, I just floundered around until I DNFed it.

11) Champions of the Dragon by Michael James Ploof. If I had to pick one word to describe this book it would be "Unprofessional". The author dedicated it to his grandfather and the main character has the grandfather's name. The main character works in a tower named Abra and his last name is Kadabra (his family doesn't own the tower or anything like that). All the character names were awful, I don't know if the story was supposed to be funny, but if that's the case, it failed at that as well.

12) The Dragon of Ordinary Farm by Tad Williams. I'm really really confused. I thought this book was just a typical awful self-published book, it's not even spellchecked. But it's written by Tad Williams, who is a big name author. Page one, sentence one has a typo ("hadnt" instead of "hadn't"). Page two and three each have an editing issue (words run together, "usedthe" and "sneezedwell"). I stopped there just because of the editing issues. I'd think maybe this was a scan of a physical book, but there was no copyright info at all, not even a single line about it. Very strange.