Yup, you got me.... I absolutely hate cliffhanger books, and yet....... I really liked this one! Go figure..... To me, starting a book I know will end on a cliffhanger, is like watching a movie halfway thru. You keep wondering! And I don't have the mental stretch to do this for very long, so I usually don't start. I have noticed, that sometimes a title will stay "Book one" only to be just that... book one of a series of loosely connected stories, but not one story running thru 2 or 3 books, and my mind didn't make the distinction this time around. Yes, I read a book on a cliffhanger, YES!!! I liked it! And, again, Yes, I will read the others, to get that sense of accomplishment without any loosends. But until I can do that..... here's the review of Rise of the Fire Dragon.
The story is a tale of desperation and hope, tinged with adventure and action. The manipulations of one man, his hunger for power shackles a whole society and the world surrounding it, including the dragons that will eventually free the world. The book is written well, the characters evolve thoughout the story, but....... it's only part of the story. I should have realised it by "book one" in the title, but I didn't, so..... I kept looking where I was in the story and comparing it to the pagecount, figuring the ending would be abrupt, only to find out, there was no ending yet.
If you don't like cliffhangers, don't start this book untill you have all of them. If you don't mind them.... it's a very nice read that will have you looking for the next book when you're closing this one :-)
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