It's two things really, the first is that I have an uncanny knack for inadvertently (or sometimes very deliberately through lack of tact) insulting people. My social skills were never fantastic (haha).
But the second and strongest link between Sheldon and I lies in an obsessive, desperate need for closure. Such is my urge to try and finish what I start that I recently started doing jigsaws to pass the time and would not stop until every last one was out and done, in spite of the fact that I lost pretty much the entire expanse of the living room floor!
This blog (or rather my near miss at my last attempt of completing the year long challenge) has been such a bad dream that I've found myself haunted by the concept of getting to that final furlong, only to be broken. I had worked so,so hard on it. I'd sacrificed so much.
So my need to return to it has been overwhelming, because to me, seeing a job done completely is actually more important than whether or not it's done well. Call it a fault of mine, you'd be right. But it is me, and I will not try to change it.
With me jigsawing away till the weekend last week it seemed as if I was going to struggle to read the week's book inside of the three days I had left. Fear not friends, a knight in shining armour was at hand!
The first story in The Erth Dragons series, The Wearle sets the scene of the presence of dragons on Erth, how they battled with humans as they tried to settle there, having visited from another world. It centres around one dragon, Gabrial who is accused of murdering the dragon queen.
While the dragon world is dealing with the fall out of the incident, Gabrial's human counterpart, a young boy called Ren who is dragon obsessed, decides to break all the rules of human kind by veering into dragon territory. What he witnesses while there could hold the key to the real mystery surrounding the dragon queen's death. But that makes him a target, can he survive the hunt long enough to tell his story and escape unharmed?
As Ren and Gabrial's worlds collide, no one is left unscathed.
The pace of this story flowed really well, and the use of vocabulary was fairly extensive which I enjoyed. I was slightly put off by the overuse of dragon technicals in the first chapter. The author, Chris D'lacey, went out of the way to give very detailed descriptions of dragon physiognomy. But after the third or fourth dragon description it became a little repetitive.
Get past that though and you have an intriguing story with cliffhangers on almost every chapter. One scene in particular in a mine has seared itself into my imagination and painted a picture that I'll not soon forget. That I think is the real joy of this story, much like dragons at it's heart, it paints vivid and beautiful pictures of the environments and characters. You can really see the world he's created.
I'm looking forward to flying through the second book of the series that was also lent to me (and maybe finishing it). But more than that, I look forward to the day when I can tell that pupil of mine that they were spot on when they said it was meant for me.
Book 4 out of 52 and my book that someone else recommended.
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