All well and good, it’s not a setting I’ve seen done before, but I’m really not that into modern settings.Īnd that was my main problem with it. The relative lawlessness enables people from other places to come and start anew, but I can’t imagine it being a pleasant place to live in unless you’re wealthy. Now Detroit Free Zone or DFZ, it’s a capitalist dystopia where littering and dragons (for some reason she also dislikes dragons) are forbidden, the laws on regulation and business are few, and everything from police to the fire services has to be paid.

Detroit has been flooded and overtaken by Algonquin, a powerful spirit who cares about the environment more than people. The story is set in the near future, after an event caused the magic to return to Earth. Along the way, he meets a human mage named Marci who has her own set of problems chasing her. His mother, embarrassed at how undraconic he is, seals him in his human form and gives him one last task as a chance to prove himself: help one of his brothers hunt down another dragon. The usual mindset for dragons is seeing everyone in terms of how they could be used to advance your and your clan’s goals, so his empathy, lack of ambition, prefering to try the diplomatic aproach first, and general niceness are seen as a liability rather than an asset. All you’ve done since I let you out of training is hide in your room, avoiding the rest of us like the plague.” It’s like you were born with no draconic instinct whatsoever.

“You’re not ambitious, you don’t make plans, you don’t try to take things over. And, well…it’s fun and charming and quite well-written, I would recommend it to many people, but ultimately still not really for me.

Urban fantasy usually doesn’t appeal to me, but the amount of enthusiasm from people with similar tastes was enough to convince me to give it a try. Nice Dragons Finish Last has been recommended to me a lot.

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