04.17.10
The Last Dragon: First Post (First Impressions)
So far I’m not terribly impressed with this book. It reads like a cheap knock-off of Eragon, which was a knock-off of a number of other stories already! The art is not what I would expect in a book aimed at teenagers (it’s very childish) and the story is frustrating in many of the same ways Eragon was. The hero has an old injury that pains him, frustrates him and restricts his movement, he is the prophesied hero who alone can connect with the only remaining living dragon in a special, magical way, there is a beautiful and magical girl who believes in his power more than he does and who he has a crush on, an evil, usurping lord who killed all the other dragons and now wants to control the remaining one, etc. See? Same story. He’s even a second son farm boy from a small town and his mother is dead.