Tui suddenly dumping another Winglets on us after years of no new novellas in this series? Okay then. Spoiler ahead.
This book, written from the POV of Cliff, Ruby and Cliff's father Jasper, tells the story of these dragons before and during the events of The Dragonet Prophecy.
Just to clarify before I start: I don't hate this book. I thought it was mildly enjoyable and I do enjoy getting more context around Ruby, Cliff and Jasper. The Jasper sections were actually quite good in this. But then we get to that one hurdle preventing my further enjoyment: Cliff's narration.
This novella is partially told by Cliff, who is a very young dragonet. And you might guess what this entails for the narration of this book. Yep, a totally juvenile and quite frankly obnoxious style of writing. And since this is our POV we're reading, we're stuck with it.
Cliff was fine in a side character, in the main series, because he doesn't overstay his welcome there. But in this short novella he managed to get really on my nerves. Other reviewers on Goodreads are calling his narration adorable and cute, but to me it was just very, very irritating. It's generally a bad idea to have the narrator of your book be obnoxious as hell. It's such an easily avoidable issue, too. Just have this be an omniscient narrator, and/or get rid of Cliff's POV narration.
Again, I do somewhat like the events taking place in this book. Jasper and Ruby were cute together. Cliff, despite his annoying narration, as a character was fine in this. Plus it's neat seeing Ruby starting to grow into a queen after Scarlet vanishes.
But eh, it's still not much. The narration really brought down the book for me, honestly. I wish I could rate it higher, but I just can't.
Rating: 3/5
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