Breath of the Dragon by Shannon Lee and Fonda Lee
I was really looking forward to this book, and I was so disappointed because this was not the book that I wanted it to be. I have read a number of by Fonda Lee, and I have enjoyed each and every book of hers. I have been waiting for a long vacation to read the Green Bone Saga, but I absolutely loved Untethered Sky. So, when I saw that she had a new book available on NetGalley, I requested it. I didn’t know who the Shannon Lee was that she coed with, but I figured I would give it a go. I really enjoyed the prologue - it set up a pair of twins, one of whom was thoughtless and doomed his family to a separation. Then chapter one began with the thoughtless child being a whiner, and a complainer, who only cared about martial arts while his father wanted him to get a nice respectable government job. I was really hoping that the book was going to alternate chapters so we could see the point of view of his twin brother and mother. As I read, it slowly dawned on me that we were not going to switch and see what was going on with the more interesting brother, but we were going to be stuck with the stupid, thoughtless, selfish brother throughout the book. About a third of the way through, I realized that Shannon Lee is the child of Bruce Lee, and that this book was going to be a boring slog of a martial arts competition. I’m sure there are people out there for whom this is a great book, but I am not one of them.
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