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Eh, it was a perfectly reasonable kids' book that I found totally uninspiring. There wasn't anything glaringly wrong with it, but I didn't get emotionally invested in the characters or the plot or anything.
I did like that in the context of this story's worldbuilding dragons' genders have no visual cues and dragons don't say anything about their genders, so dragons get referred to by nonbinary pronouns and titles. On the other hand the pronoun used for dragons is IT. And no, that wasn't me all-capsing for emphasis, that's actually how the book writes IT throughout. The dragon Meenore is one of the major characters in the book, which means that the pronoun IT gets shouted at you by the text a lot over the course of the book. So that's both a plus one and a minus one for nonbinary representation, I guess. Sigh.
Other than that...I am just super lacking in anything at all to say about anything in this book because I just didn't care.
I did like that in the context of this story's worldbuilding dragons' genders have no visual cues and dragons don't say anything about their genders, so dragons get referred to by nonbinary pronouns and titles. On the other hand the pronoun used for dragons is IT. And no, that wasn't me all-capsing for emphasis, that's actually how the book writes IT throughout. The dragon Meenore is one of the major characters in the book, which means that the pronoun IT gets shouted at you by the text a lot over the course of the book. So that's both a plus one and a minus one for nonbinary representation, I guess. Sigh.
Other than that...I am just super lacking in anything at all to say about anything in this book because I just didn't care.
