The White Dragon / Laura Resnick

The White Dragon

(category: fantasy)
book 1 of Sileria / In fire forged by

Laura Resnick

published by Tor / Tom Doherty, New York in 2003, read in December 2009

Agamedes' opinion: 6 out of 10

Took a while to get into this book... There are dozens of characters appearing from an earlier book, there's a lot of background plot to be explained... or is there? What I initially took to be an explanation of, "what came before" could well have been, Backstory which was not mentioned in the previous book but which happened at the same time or very soon after. Sort of, weaving a new plot into the previous story. And the characters, well, it was quite clear who were the main characters so you can skim over the rest. Still, it all made for heavy going at the start. Then the story picked up, the characters became familiar and likeable -- or, familiar and understandably evil. The country -- Sileria -- is peopled with people who swear blood feuds, have great loyalty but lie and cheat as a way of life. All makes for a rollicking plot -- but I'm rather glad that at least one hero is hoping to stop Silerians from slaughtering each other. Well, after the war is won, anyway.

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