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Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon by H. Leighton Dickson

This book seemed like two in one. The first 50% of it was very much like White Fang. In a world where dragons are both intelligent creatures and used as domestic animals by humans, wild dragon is caught as a baby and tamed to work for humans. The first 50% of the book follows his first three years of life, as he's sold from owner to owner, and through him we experience how cruel humans can be -- even kind owners were cruel without meaning to be, because they were part of the system using and abusing an intelligent species.

While it was so much like White Fang, I really loved the first half of the book. I snuck in as much reading time as I could -- I couldn't put it down.

The second half was like a completely different book. No longer a young dragon, the main character (who gets a new name with each owner), experiences life in the wild, goes back to humanity, then becomes free once more. Unfortunately there was way too much stuff that just happened to go perfectly right for him, allowing him to free many captive dragons and other not so believable things.

The second half of the book wasn't awful, but I considered DNFing a few times. It's odd and interesting how different the two halves were.

Did Not Finish

Rofolio's Scaly Circus by Jonathon Burgess. While the cover is nice, the humor in this book didn't work for me at all. Even just the little bit I read annoyed me more than amused me. DNF 5%

Ice Station Death by Gustavo Bondoni. This is one of those books I have no idea how it got onto my Kindle. Probably from that old offer Amazon used to do "pick one free book per month out of these four". Horror, set in the real world. The male characters were fine, but the female ones were... not. There were only three female characters. Two were twins, one of the twins had sex with men, the other commented on it to the rest of the crew. They were more minor characters though. The main female character was a raging bitch to everyone for no reason. When I got frustrated enough with that, I checked reviews on the book. Apparently she also goes insane. Which, since they're headed to Antarctica to stay there for six months, is an issue... I'm pretty sure they test people going there for mental stability. DNF 24%

Frozen: Heart of Dread by Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston. Amazon describes this book as "a futuristic Game of Thrones". This is another book I have zero idea how got on my Kindle, everything about the Amazon summary is a turn off to my reading tastes. Luckily I didn't like the writing at all so I never even got to the elements I wouldn't have liked. DNF 7%


Partial book credits:
Point reached in DNF books: 5% + 24% + 7% = 36%
Previous abandoned book total: 312%
New total: 348% (three books)