This marks a first, the first Broken Binding subscription book that I DNF’d and thus the first (and second and third) that I have unhauled. The premise of this world held a lot of intrigue with ships being made out of dragon bones – not all of them, only the “special” ones – and the search being on because another dragon had been spotted at long last. I really wanted to enjoy the story but I just could not break through to connect,
even in the smallest way, with any of the characters. Barker drops the reader into the world without any backstory, a technique that can work if the author gives the reader something to latch onto. I read much longer than I should have, desperately trying to make it work.
Unfortunately, this graphic novel adaptation has many of the same downfalls as the Percy Jackson adaptations. I knew within a handful of pages that this was not working so I set it down and moved on. (I picked this up as part of my ongoing project to read as many graphic novels as possible to expand this portion of my classroom library.)
Most of the dragon books on my April TBR did not fare well, which, unfortunately, included this one. The prose rubbed me the wrong way right from the start because it read highly simplistic and similar to my own prose in the fantasy “novel” I wrote back in middle school. Once that thought entered my brain, I could not shake it. Since I had no desire to put myself through an entire novel with that prose, onto the DNF pile it went.
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