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Cargando... The Dinosaur Lords: A Novel (2015 original; edición 2015)por Victor Milán (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. So badly wanted this to be good. Too much overdone drama coming from human characters, and we don't know them well enough to care about their angst, at least not as early in the book as it shows up. Felt like it was written as a medieval battle tale, then the horses were all changed to dinosaurs to make it less boring. Didn't work, still boring. A rare DNF. On the one hand, the overall plot, themes, and characters are all pretty stock and generic fantasy fare. The countries, names, religions, society were all pretty derivative (although I'm sure that's on purpose, with this being a settled planet). On the other hand, motherfucking dinosaurs. Everything with them was great - Milán is great at including a truly massive number of diverse creatures. I thought it was going to be all t-rexes, stegs, trikes, and raptors. Instead, we have multiple variations of nearly every dinosaur and near-dinosaur and all are made badass and interesting. Even duck-bills. There's also some bizarre set pieces with Would have been 4 buuuuut princess plotline featuring gratuitous rape knocked it back down. Can we not? What you see is what you get, and what you get is a ton of knights on dinosaurs. AND DINOSAURS. DINOSAURS!!! I think the political and intrigue-y bits dragged a little, but DINOSAURS. And I loved all the chapter headers, including Richard Anderson's gorgeous illustrations. The world-building was pretty surprising, too. I was expecting a typical alternate Europe, but sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A world made by the Eight Creators on which to play out their games of passion and power, Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often brutal place. Men and women live on Paradise but dinosaurs predominate, and they are the weapons of choice. Vast armies of dinosaur-mounted knights engage in battle. During the course of one of these epic battles, the enigmatic mercenary Dinosaur Lord Karyl Bogomirsky is defeated through betrayal and left for dead. He wakes, naked, wounded, partially amnesiac-and hunted. And embarks upon a journey that will shake his world. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Take away the dinosaurs and there was nothing new here. The book reads like a standard fantasy novel. I didn't really care that much about the story and after awhile I didn't care that much about the characters. The coolest part was the dinosaurs but except for a few scenes they might as well have been horses. This book made me break my 100 page rule where I put a book aside if it doesn't catch me because it did. The writing is good but ultimately it just fell short. Maybe as disappointed about a book as I have been in some time because I really wanted to like it more. ( )