Captal's Tower by Melanie Rawn5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Of course, I can’t find any of my Dragon Star paperbacks (and they’re not in eBook) so I took the opportunity to order used hardcovers. ![]() But the main villain of Dragon Star is my favorite of hers, and now I’m basically rushing through The Star Scroll and Sunrunner’s Fire to get to Stronghold. ![]() I guess that’s the risk you run with epic fantasy. Villains are not her strong suit Most of them are unabashedly, cardboard evil. The second trilogy ( Dragon Star) is probably the better of the two, and it actually has what I consider to be Rawn’s best villain. (Weird realization: If Pern was my Middle-Earth, than Rawn is my Wheel of Time… Huh. ![]() But they are very ’80s (And that awful romance novel cover on Dragon Prince is not a drill.) I never loved them wholeheartedly like I did Pern – in fact, I though the second two books were such a letdown that I originally interloaned the second trilogy instead of buying it. There are a lot of things about Rawn that really bug me, but I can’t deny that I devoured those books back in the day. Alas, this made me fall into a wave of nostalgia and I reread the first book in, like, two days. Tor is finally doing a reread of a book series I actually read as a teen – Melanie Rawn’s Dragon Prince trilogy. ![]()
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