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Raichu ([personal profile] diet_poison) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets 2014-12-02 01:16 am (UTC)

Re: Book club discussion post for Dragon Princess!

I really like stories that involve body-swapping, multiple minds/souls in one body, or other similar tropes. This story did not disappoint in terms of getting into the weirdness of putting Frank into the body of a woman, especially one he didn't know very well (that would have created an entirely different dynamic, though also an interesting one) but I wish we'd gotten more perspective on the other three swappees. We hardly saw anything from Elhared or the dragon (who btw I wish had gotten a proper name) and even though we saw a lot of dragon!Lucille, she was never the narrator so we didn't see her reactions to her new body outside the general "I don't want to be a dragon! (wait nvm I do)". I would have loved to see a more even focus.

I really enjoyed the writing style of this book; it wasn't perfect all the way through, but the very first chapter already had me laughing and appreciating the narrator's voice, and that made me want to read more right away. I liked that about it.

Here are a few questions (I'll put my own answers up in a reply):

What did you think of the ending?

What do you think will happen now to the Lendowyn royal family's line of inheritance?

What did you think of the way elves were written?

What would you have tried to do, in the end, if you were in Frank or Lucille's shoes?

Did you ship Frank/Lucille? What about any other pairings?

What was your take on the transaction Frank had with Nâtlac?


Any other thoughts?

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