The Dragon's Banker - Review
Link to the author's (S. Warren) personal website
Genre: Fantasy
Publication Type: Book
Tags:
- Average Age of Main Characters (30)
- Length (3 / 10)
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Blurb: Finance: The lifeblood of any country’s beating heart and the life’s work of Sailor Kelstern — Merchant Banker. While wizards brood in their towers and great warriors charge into battle Sailor is more interested in the price of ore, herbs, and alchemicals carried by the trade ships.
But when a spell of bad fortune and bitter rivalry leaves him scrambling to turn a profit on little more than winds and whispers, one such whisper catches Sailor’s ear— a dragon has been seen in the west.
Sailor soon finds that the dragons are very real, and not at all what he expected. And they practice a very different sort of economy — one of subterfuge and fire.
Review: This book broke my sub-genre classification system! When reading this it'll probably be classified as something, but that tag is officially the first that broke my system.
Onto the actual review though, because this book is an absolute beauty, and a phenomenal short novel: The title's a pretty good summary of the book if there ever was one, and it's a good one at that. I really liked the creativeness of the plot, especially the concept of a Dragon feeling slightly threatened that their hoard may no longer represent an upper limit on wealth. The main character, Sailor, was a beautiful pair of eyes to see the world through, and I really enjoyed how the consequences of many of his actions were presented from multiple point of views. The book managed back-story spectacularly too, with just a sprinkle of a fairy tale and a bad business venture mentioned. Ultimately this is enough to enhance but not extend or weigh down what I think is a well paced and perfectly sized novel. This is a big recommend from me!