Dragons lexicon triumvirate, seems like it has the makings of a good story. It has dragons that are fighting humans and technoknights, as well as the technodragon king Drekkenoth and his two cyborg cronies. Its got dragons, thunderbirds, magic and fantastic lands. Also cyborgs, firearms and computers.
Too bad that it just comes off as an asinine half-baked waste of a story! The central plot is about Dennagon a once loyal sentry of the destroyed city of Drakemight. who then joins up with Lyconel and her band of rebels. So they can get the all-powerful magical MacGuffin: the lexicon. The story itself is just a mess of ideas that has no cohesion and ends up like something a forth-grader came up with on the bus ride home from school. The prose itself is just plain awful. The sentences don't flow well, and is very clunky with a slight hint of pretentiousness. I swear that he abuses the thesaurus so badly that someone should call socal services. In all honesty it makes me wonder if there was an editor at all when this story was written.
The characters are flat at best and before and done way, way, better elsewhere in other in other works. They have no real personalty and just there, they have at best a single stereotypical trait and little else. The villains are just the most bland and uninteresting. The motivations of the big bad just boils down to, "I want the Lexicon because I want to be all-powerful," and little else. In conclusion they are all forgettable. The fights lack energy or even make you care who wins or not.
I would like to call Kenneth Eng a hack. But, that would insult the likes likes of Ayn Rand, Stephanie Meyer, Terry Goodkind, and Christopher Paolini. because at least they have sold works and have a fanbase.
I would like to call his writing style akin to fanfiction but, that would be an insult to everyone on fanfiction.net. At least they have the benefit of being based on something that was successful. The only value this story has is for any aspiring author to see how not to write a story like this.
Literature Dragons Lexicon Triumvirate, Good ideas in the hands of an incapable author.
Dragons lexicon triumvirate, seems like it has the makings of a good story. It has dragons that are fighting humans and technoknights, as well as the technodragon king Drekkenoth and his two cyborg cronies. Its got dragons, thunderbirds, magic and fantastic lands. Also cyborgs, firearms and computers.
Too bad that it just comes off as an asinine half-baked waste of a story! The central plot is about Dennagon a once loyal sentry of the destroyed city of Drakemight. who then joins up with Lyconel and her band of rebels. So they can get the all-powerful magical MacGuffin: the lexicon. The story itself is just a mess of ideas that has no cohesion and ends up like something a forth-grader came up with on the bus ride home from school. The prose itself is just plain awful. The sentences don't flow well, and is very clunky with a slight hint of pretentiousness. I swear that he abuses the thesaurus so badly that someone should call socal services. In all honesty it makes me wonder if there was an editor at all when this story was written.
The characters are flat at best and before and done way, way, better elsewhere in other in other works. They have no real personalty and just there, they have at best a single stereotypical trait and little else. The villains are just the most bland and uninteresting. The motivations of the big bad just boils down to, "I want the Lexicon because I want to be all-powerful," and little else. In conclusion they are all forgettable. The fights lack energy or even make you care who wins or not.
I would like to call Kenneth Eng a hack. But, that would insult the likes likes of Ayn Rand, Stephanie Meyer, Terry Goodkind, and Christopher Paolini. because at least they have sold works and have a fanbase.
I would like to call his writing style akin to fanfiction but, that would be an insult to everyone on fanfiction.net. At least they have the benefit of being based on something that was successful. The only value this story has is for any aspiring author to see how not to write a story like this.