Book Review: Age of Fire Series by E.E Knight

This is a fantasy series centered around dragons. The series conists of six books and I have so far read 4 books. This will be a spoiler review so warning from the start. The first book Dragon Campion got me interested into the series. The descriptions are set the scene, "the hatchling tasted his first air." Auron is of course the hatchling that is being described. Auron is an unusual dragon, with no scales. The story builds slowly introducing his family, his brothers like Copper, and sisters like Wistala. They introduce some innate abilities in dragons, being able to share images from one another. The story builds and it ends in disaster with his home being attacked and Auron is forced to flee. He ends up taking a massive journey that takes him captive aboard Elves and then managing to escape. He ends washed up on the shore eventually that introduces a talking sea turtle. The turtle only appears for a scene with wisdom saying things like "Men don't rule thw world. They live on it, same as the rest of us. They hardly go in the Lower World and they don't control the Upper One." These types of scenes and odd little characters help make the world that little bit weirdly more unique and they don't explain why the turtle can talk and a lot of other creatures can't in the same way but it doesn't really matter. Auron's journey continues until he finds a dragon called NooMoahk, an old wizened dragon but has episodes, lapses in memory that can make him momentarily forget friend or foe. He has some good descriptions like, "A red eyeopened, joined by a second, and Auron heard the bulk of the ancient dragon rise." Auron befriends NooMoahk. Hes easily one of the most interesting characters in the book. Until he dies. Auron also befriends dwarves and other races which is fun and it does show the dwarven cities and cultures adding to the world. The first book eventually ends, and it was okay. There was never that much action it. But netherless I continued. The second and third book don't actually cover Auron's story. Instead they cover Auron's sibling stories; Wistala in book 2, and Coppier in book 3. The two start almost identical to the first book, going into detail about their family lives even though we have already seen it in the first book, and how they both escape the destruction but it goes on along for thirty or forty odd pages describe their interactions with their other family members. I guess its interesting to see how they thought of those particular events but it felt drawn out. Tbe books also meander a lot as well. But i persisted since I had bought four of the six books. It had moments of interest. The fourth book finally goes back to Auron and this time it went into multi pov for the first time in the series cutting from each character to the other each chapter. I think this would have been the best option from the start in all honesty. It would have cut out so much padding. The first book started promising but I have lost interest. The world building is here and there, characters okay though kind of bland for the most part. Dragons don't seem dragon like enough, more dangerous and threatening. It would have been nice to see Copper perhaps be more antagonistic compared to Auron and Wistala, but no they all feel similar in the grand scheme of the story so far. I am unsure whether i want to continue the series for the last two books. Overall, I am giving this a 5/ 10. Some aspects I liked. NooMoahk was the most interesting different character and he died.