The Ring of Five Dragons
(first of The Pearl Saga
by
Eric van Lustbader
fantasy
copyright 2001
not read in February 2022
rated 3/10: so bad it's embarrassing
The author seems to have a complex world in his imagination.
He doesn't bother to share that world with the reader.
There are a lot of unexplained characters in the first few pages. They are quickly killed.
There may be two distinct races, there are hints but that may just be bad writing.
There is definitely a large animal which is like, perhaps, a unicorn, with a single large gleaming horn... a few chapters later the same animal has two horns. Okay, that's trivial. It's just an indication of the sloppy quality of this book.
Then we jump forward a century or so. To meet several dislikeable characters. And find that a third race has invaded. No explanation of where they came from.
It's So awful that I stopped reading.
Embarrassing rubbish.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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