Dragonwatch

I liked the part when goodreads crashed and deleted my 3 paragraph dissertation on why this book is bad.

I loved the first series. This book is basically a setup plot for the next series. It decides that Seth's character development is going to get undone and then redone over the course of several days, and it illustrates this by having Seth (who, again, is an experienced individual when it comes to all things magical) use his cousin for a heist of some treasure. Why does Seth, who's several years older by this point, still want treasure so much? Dunno, he's a dumb boy haha don't you get it? He's dumb. Why does he decide to bring along his cousin, who will probably spill the beans to his grandfather even if everything went perfectly? Dunno, he's a wittle bit stuwpid. Why is Seth's cousin a jerk? Dunno, mean cousin haha.

I'm not impressed with how all of the nuance of Fablehaven got drained out of this book. It's almost there in the end, but this one in particular feels like Mull just setting up a lot of events to happen so that he can write more books. Here's a little dude who solved the maze for you. Now you're stuck being a dragon caretaker, because this series deals with dragons. Bracken is gone because of course he needs to be. And there's two family members who, as of yet, do nothing aside from be there at the beginning and end.

This book was ok. The dialogue was clunky at places. If I didn't have some hopes for the rest of the series, it would be even lower. All in all, it'd better pick up from here, because this doesn't even respect the source material that's made by the same author.