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Dragons of Darkness by Orson Scott Card

jdhacker's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Fantastic collection overall. Its not straight fantasy, the various (very successful) authors involved were given a lot of latitude in interpreting 'dragon' as a theme for the collection, so hopefully there's something here for a variety of fiction readers. 
There were, for me, a couple of low points. Not necessarily poorly written stories, but ones that didn't hold my attention as well (as I *was* here for the dragons). Roger Stine's 'Thermals of August' springs to mind, which was primarily about hangliders. "Soldatenmangel" was also on the strange side, and a little goofy, though still entertaining. 
Overall, great fantasy read though.

zetasyanthis's review

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3.0

Pretty solid, but nothing special... aside from one story, the one about the rigger. <3
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