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Title: the title should warn you
Review: I was dismayed by the title (way, WAY too similar to Aragon of LOTR) but since it's a fat fantasy, gave it a try. Kept on going, despite increasing dissapointment at words, characters, settings lifted directly from other books & movies. Stone that turns into dragon = Simak, people riding dragons= McCaffery, tuatha as magic word = Willow, old man as warrior in hiding = Star Wars, elves as beautiful guardians of the good = Tolkien, etc., etc. There were just TOO many borrowings to be credible. It was similar to the fan fiction one sees on the web, or that most of us wrote in high school. Then I find out afterwards...he WAS in high school! So that explains it all. When he finds a voice of his own, he'll be a good author, but I'm afraid this wasn't it.
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