Com Original , 32 pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Dragonkin , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Sincerely, A Vampire Ninja! This shortie was a complete nightmare, and not of the peacock mantis shrimp mermaid kind.
The complete lack of world-building: The utter disregard for character development: With the notable exception of Rudy Rucker's horrific t, is for Tidhar. View all 8 comments. Sometimes a friend's 1-star review is irresistible, especially when it's for a free online Tor short story.
I couldn't resist the temptation to check it out for myself.
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They congregate on Internet chat rooms; their schoolmates and co-workers think they're weird. But they're stuck in their human form, until someone sets off som Sometimes a friend's 1-star review is irresistible, especially when it's for a free online Tor short story. But they're stuck in their human form, until someone sets off some sort of psychic bomb that releases them from their human limitations.
Suddenly our main character can turn into a dragon, flying around and scorching the villages, and it's all great fun and immensely liberating. Until she realizes that the world is being destroyed by the chaos: Otakukin manifested in a thousand pop culture Mythago fragments as ghostly giant monsters made battle in the cities: I liked the way this story took bits and pieces of many different countries' myths and cultures and pieced them together I had to look up Otaku.
I thought it was a great premise, but stumbled in the execution, with more imagery than coherent story-telling. The style of writing was fragmentary, skimming over the surface with minimal explanation and world-building, and the pieces just didn't hold together well enough to satisfy me.
Dragonkin by Lavie Tidhar
The author also posits that God and religion are part of this overall mythos: And that God together with the angels and devils is better left in the realm of the subconscious and unreal. It may work for some readers, but it was a needle-scratch plot development for me. Free online at here at Tor. View all 11 comments. I have one more free short story to go then I shall leave them alone as they don't seem to do much for me. View all 5 comments. May 05, GoldGato rated it liked it Shelves: There be dragons here along with wolves and witches and other strange beings. The setup was enticing as we learn about a world controlled by angels and demons who seem to work together, not really certain.
The narrator is hiding her true self, a self that explodes when hunted by the elfenkin or something like that. Anyway, lots of the stuff tha Tor. Anyway, lots of the stuff that we all loved when younger, before the grown-up stuff took over I live in a world controlled by Googlekin and Applekin and Governmentkin. If this was a serial, I would be interested. The characters need more fleshing out, but as a reader I was starting to get into the entire concept. It reminded me of the lyrics of an old s song We won't be coming around For to kill-a your snakes no more My love Something like that. Apr 22, Elspeth rated it it was ok Shelves: Was it a dream, or maybe a vision?
I just didn't care for this.
View all 3 comments. May 02, Laura rated it it was ok Shelves: You may read online at Tor. Not so good as expected. View all 4 comments. Feb 02, Aura Nizharu rated it did not like it Shelves: But personally I don't like the ending, thus the Star rating. Apr 21, A. I had to look up otakukin. The MC has two plus themselves. They are a dragon; a rare creature. They trail the world looking for the original creature. You ask me what is God.
And I say unto you: God is a transabled, transethnic, transgendered, transcendent being. Sounds like Tumblr, eh? But eventually it falls into a flat circle of time thing where it all goes around again on repeat. Jun 28, Gabriela rated it it was ok Shelves: I liked the first part and the idea but the ending felt too "neat". It focused too much on the conflict and not in the community of otherkin. Sep 30, Jasper rated it really liked it Shelves: I am not that familiar with the stories of Lavie Tidhar, I have only read The Violent Century so far, which is very interesting to say the least. It is unique in many ways and definitely have set him apart from many different authors, so while I was browsing new short fiction to read and I came across one of Lavie Tidhar stories I directly dived into it and just as what I read in The Violent Century, the story of Dragonkin is unique a originally posted at: It is unique in many ways and definitely have set him apart from many different authors, so while I was browsing new short fiction to read and I came across one of Lavie Tidhar stories I directly dived into it and just as what I read in The Violent Century, the story of Dragonkin is unique and definitely one of a kind.
Lavie Tidhar really knows how to create one-of-a-kind stories with a awesome setting. The story begins with a rhyme that doesn't make that much sense but does let you think about what will be told next. Elf must speak for itself as well as Angel but Otaku? I had no clue. After this you are immediately placed in the position of the main protagonist of the story Tarasque, in the first person perspective.
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You learn that she isn't all that human and that she only wears a human body disguise. Tarasque is a Dragonkin She get surrounded by a group of Elfkin, who aren't all that friendly towards her and when push comes to shove, the Elfkin draw their swords and Tarasque does her dragon thing. During the resolving of this "conflict" there are a few flashbacks to how Tarasque got to be Tarasque in her dragon form, which is pretty cool and inventive to say the least. You also learn that Tarasque is on a quest, she is in search for a certain someone, The Primal-Mythago.
The lord ruler supreme, god, or any which name you want to give it. During the introduction of the story and the details of how these kin became kin you know that sacrifices were made and people suffered, actually they still are.
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Armed with her Flaming Sword Tarasque hopes she will be able to do the right thing I really liked the whole premise of the story from build up right till the end. The feeling that Lavie Tidhar manages to inspire in his story in on one hand dark and grim, haunting at times and on the other very beautiful when you get down in detail of the emotional side that came along to Tarasque's transformation and the journey she went through.
This is precisely how a you should execute a short story. Giving a focus on the world, characters and everything in between, from the big picture down to some very fine details. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.
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