A review by jadesofiee
The Dragon Hammer by Tony Daniel

2.0

I had higher hopes for this. The story was fairly predictable, which made it a lot less exciting. There was some really cool world-building elements (the whole elves/star/drauger/dragon stuff) but it fell a little flat to me? I would have rather'd the story from Ravenelle (or Ursel's or Grer's) pov, because they were much more dynamic and interesting characters. Wulf was not a particularly interesting protagonist for a genre that already has a lot of young hetero males being given power that they didn't think was theirs and so they're just like "why am I in charge? Okay army, follow me into battle!" Like, cool that he reads and likes mythology/sagas, but also, I kept forgetting that because it only came up when people were like "what do we do?!" and he would pull out a fun fact from a saga of something seemingly "impossible" but that they could take to make their decision. Hahaha, I don't think my disappointment is at all obvious in this review....