Another great author to follow

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and look forward eagerly to reading more by this author. I loved the contrast between the Morgan's and the Haskell's; the Dragon and the House.

My thoughts on Dragon's Eye are available on my book blog at Booklikes.

First off. Ignore the cover. It's terrible.

I felt like this book couldn't decide if it wanted to be an action story or a slice of life. The book follows seven characters, and two plot lines that somewhat connect at the end of the book. The characters switch out getting a chapter to themselves. The first plotline is that of the captured Daniel and his son and brother's attempts to locate and rescue him. The other plotline is that of Alice and Kate's relationship. The book plods along slowly through he first half, and picks partway through when the seventh character, Caroline is introduced.

Overall I found that I didn't really care what happened to most of the characters. Kate's chapters were rather dull unless she was actually talking to another character which she usually wasn't. SHe almost seemd under utilized as a character. Alice irritated me. A LOT. She was constantly showing off how much she knew about everyone's secrets, and had this I'm-smarter-than-you and I'm-always-right attitude to all the other characters with the exception of Kate. The other characters get irritated, but Alice is never called out on it.

Caroline is introduced halfway through the book, but when she shows up she knows everything and seemingly has nothing she can't do. Precision shots from the back of a speeding boat? No problem. Sneaking into a fortress? Not a sweat. Knowing every secret ever? Of course. Just walking in and taking a powerful magical artifact because she's just that special? You bet. As much as I initially had hopes for her, she was starting to set off the Mary Sue radar. Fortunately, she stops just short of crossing the line during the climax of the book. YMMV though on whether this is too little too late.

The most interesting characters to me were Daniel and his son, Gary. The selkie aspect to them was really interesting, and it's a shame the author didn't do more with it. In the first chapter Daniel is captured by a rival group who wants to posses the Dragon's Eye, a magical artifact that his family possesses. He is faced with trying to resist the spells and torture that they inflict on him in order to protect his family. Meanwhile, Gary is faced with trying to protect his little sisters and rescue his father while learning everything he can from his uncle.

Overall, the book was entertaining, but not riveting. The kind of book I'd read in a waiting room or on an airplane. At the very least it's different compared to all the other urban fantasies out there.

Dragon's Eye was better than I expected. When I picked this book up at the library, I looked at the cover and expected a cheesy fantasy novel. Instead, the novel was down to earth, realistic, and had a little bit of romance in it that worked well. I am excited to read the sequel.

DNF

It was a quick and interesting read. Taking the Romance (magician) mode pretty neatly.

A lot of different points of view which is nice although I got a little confused a couple times. Would've been nice to have markers of some kind to know who's point of view it was gonna be and stay. Or change marker or something. Most of the time I got it but still, never know.

The story was thrilling and action packed and well amazing and sad and dangerous and cool. Interesting idea.

i bought the copy since i thought this might be good because of the cover. i was truly dissapointed as it was very misleading. the story was kinda lame.

I read this back when I worked at a bookstore in high school and haven’t read it since. HOWEVER, I have regularly thought of the Haskell House and the lesbian romance subplot ever since and only today rediscovered the title and author, which merits a reread and five stars for sticking power.

bad book. bad.

Great new writer of urban fantasy, similar to Charles DeLint.

Okay, so this probably in all honesty doesn't really deserve 4 stars -- it was a little jumpy/gappy, as well as occasionally cliched. BUT I enjoyed the hell out of it; this is the kind of stuff I love: mythic fiction in the vein of Charles de Lint, just right up my ally. So it gets a 4 star rating for that simple fact. Deal with it. ;)