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After the Dragons
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After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang -- Starting June 18th 2021
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I'm not sure if I'll be able to continue this. I'm not liking it so far. It reads a bit all over the place and just.. eh. I will try. I'm about 8% in.
Krystal wrote: "I'm not sure if I'll be able to continue this. I'm not liking it so far. It reads a bit all over the place and just.. eh. I will try. I'm about 8% in."Ahh, sorry you aren't enjoying it, hope it gets better!
I genuinely loved this but I didn’t write down updates while reading so I have general non spoiler thoughts here-I find it kind of scary that it’s short and a fantasy who would get to build a good enough world in just over 150 pages?
-I love the concept of dragons and wish there was more about them I feel like the author is skipping so many important details here
-this is super character driven I don’t think the world building will evolve further than this..
I actually liked this a lot and it was a light hearted short fantasy but it was completely based on character development and much less on world building and fantastical elements.
Krystal wrote: "I'm not sure if I'll be able to continue this. I'm not liking it so far. It reads a bit all over the place and just.. eh. I will try. I'm about 8% in."I agree in the beginning it was a bit disorganized
Hey, I'll start this tomorrow!
Now, no longer hailed as gods and struggling in the overheated pollution of Beijing, only the Eastern dragons survive. As drought plagues the aquatic creatures, a mysterious disease—shaolong, or “burnt lung”—afflicts the city’s human inhabitants.
Jaded college student Xiang Kaifei scours Beijing streets for abandoned dragons, distracting himself from his diagnosis. Elijah Ahmed, a biracial American medical researcher, is drawn to Beijing by the memory of his grandmother and her death by shaolong. Interest in Beijing’s dragons leads Kai and Eli into an unlikely partnership. With the resources of Kai’s dragon rescue and Eli’s immunology research, can the pair find a cure for shaolong and safety for the dragons? Eli and Kai must confront old ghosts and hard truths if there is any hope for themselves or the dragons they love.