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By the time Arthur made it to the ground and dismounted Brooks, Purple Lilac had landed and was being attended to by her concerned rider. Splotches of lichen were actively growing up between her scales. The little purple rolled over and over on the ground. I didn’t excuse you,” Arthur snapped. Then he turned again to Athena. “My apologies instructor, I didn’t make myself clear. I don’t want this idiot or his idiot dragon in this class ever again.” I dont fancy myself a critique so I'll only voice maybe my dislike for some childish plot twists but considering the target audience I dont expect any grimdark or solidly logical sensible character choices, so with that in mind I gave many parts the benefit of the doubt and understood the author did their best and you can feel it as trusting author most often resulted well, earning my review and appreciation. Pretending he hadn’t heard them, Arthur went on. “Willard and Morrice can make themselves useful tending the dragon soil pits — Morrice is a nature dragon. Fertilizer should be up his alley. Then, when the next class is up to this level in a month or two, hopefully, they will be mature enough to join and complete their training.”
No romance or overly stretched overplayed drama (except maybe near the end of book 2) which I greatly approve and enjoyed the focus on the world, the heirarchy, the training and the magics. Arthur waited with a held breath. There was no alert from the approaching double diamond formation.If you can’t tell the difference between a scourgeling and a dragon, you have no business being up in the air. Instructor Athena,” he turned to the woman. “This pair has proven themselves to be a liability in combat. I don’t want them anywhere near this class.” Relatively chill, not quite slice of life as while theres plenty of action, mc has a utility power. She turned to Willard. “You have displeased your Legendary superior, rider. You’re done for the day.” He heard several gasps around him — the rest of the riders had dismounted and circled to watch the show. His hesitation caused Silvy to fear the worst. Her eyes widened and she screamed. "Healer! Healer!"
Joy was a pink meta who was often alerted by useful quests which could be anything from running an errand for an elderly neighbor to, one time, alerting the Hive Leaders of a rare night-time scourge-eruption. She was almost precognizant and her quest card might give her the heads up something was coming. The last reason Arthur disliked riding Brooks during practice drills, Brixaby became incredibly, obnoxiously jealous.Yes, sir.” The instructor nodded. She had been paying deference to him since the moment Arthur joined the class.
An absolutely solid read with great writing, fun little magic card system and DRAGONS — while overdone in fantasy — made sense and felt right.In fact, the vast majority of the novel is him building up utility based skills and classes based on his "master of skills" legendary card ( cooking, cleaning, thieving, performing etc;) While an rrl frequent reader, I actually read this first on kindle and came here once I finished book 2 because I absolutely had to begin book 3 post haste. The class had done these practices before with one diamond formation trying to disrupt the other. Then, the terms of engagement had been known ahead of time. Instead, he turned to his own dragon who was buzzing around the landed Morrice and threatening to tear his card out of his 'Useless, rotten, green core'. As for worldbuilding we are starting to catch glimpses of the world outside the hive, and I am quite looking forward to learning more about this world. Hopefully we learn more soon.