Keelan’s Comments (group member since Mar 08, 2017)

Keelan’s comments from the Wyrms of Words group.

I expected it to be a little less brutal than it was, and more of a quest than a travelogue. I don't mind though, and it's nice to see a book that defies my expectations. I'll get on to the next one once I've finished off the Temeraire books I've got.

It was unnerving at first, although I understood why-- the hominids didn't exactly endear themselves to him until he met Djer. It makes him more interesting as a character though.

Here's another question. When he refuses to eat the families of the blighters that betrayed him (due to his being half-ill from the Blighter's venom arrows), I read into that his reluctance to eat more hominids after meeting Djer. Granted, he does eat the hunters that the blighters present to him as sacrifices, but compared to the slow, bloody death the blighters would undoubtedly have given them, Auron saw it as a mercy, and I think he's right. What do you think to that?

I suppose that people just aren't used to seeing the "good guy" in the story act in a way that is to them morally reprehensible, even though Auron didn't have any options left, and, if you ask me, wouldn't have fit his character if he hadn't eaten anyone.

Maybe people thought he'd have compassion for the child he ate on the beach, but at that time he believe humans were monsters anyway, and the humans showed themselves true to that when they essentially did the same thing, the Dragonblade pursuing Auron through the mountains for an ego trip, when Auron was little more than a child himself.

I really wish the homonids and the dragons will co-exist eventually. Although the dragon culture is quite savage in our eyes, no-one's culture is perfect, and the dragons seem very friendly and honourable in most cases. It's just that hundreds of years of prejudice from both sides affected everyone for the worse.