Black Leviathan

336 pages

English language

Published 2020 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-9830-7
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5 stars (2 reviews)

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This was exactly to my tastes.

5 stars

This is described on the back of the book as Moby Dick, but instead of whalers, it's about drachenjagers (dragon hunters) traversing the Cloudmere in their magic crystal-levitated ships. Much like whaling, dragon hunting is dangerous business. And much like Moby Dick, here a jager captain's crew was struck with tragedy when a monstrous dragon of myth known as Gargantuan, aka the Black Leviathan, attacks his crew and kills nearly everyone on board. The bulk of the story takes place five years later and follows Lian, a young man studying krillian (magic crystal) carving, who suddenly finds himself in a bind and has to flee his home.

This book is exactly what I love about dragons. Powerful, mysterious monsters that aren't fully understood. They're dangerous, they need to be taken seriously, they're not talking ridable pets. (Unless you have the mettle and sheer force of will to tame one. But …

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  • Germanic literature