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This section is not in alphabetical order!
This is purely the opinion of several anons, so like all opinions, take it with a gain of salt.
This does not necessarily mean that the books are bad, per say.


Dragon's Curse: Elixir Quest (2012) by Sean Walton
Historical Fiction (TF/xenofiction)
Part 1 of a three book series and also a prequel series to the author's main work.
This novel would be worth putting on the main page if not for the bad pacing and medieval prose. If you try really, really hard maybe you might be able to mentally gloss over it. Should be noted that the main protag gets cucked by his human wife but ends up settling with a nice, strong-willed dragoness.

DC 3.9/5
CA 3.5/5
Metallics are generally good, chromatics are generally evil, etc, etc
PS 3.9/5‪‪‪‪‪‪


Dragons of Etra (2021-2022) by Chester Young
Fantasy (xenofiction)
A Wings of Fire-esque novel that hits all of the standard cliches of a typical rogue/assassin fantasy and the series as a whole seems to be attempting to achieve a world record of cramming as many dragon tropes as possible in the entirety of 2 books. As a side note, the author does has a passion for rider (bonding) and dragon pov stories, and even keeps his own list of dragon literature on his website.
Dragons of Etra Book 1: The Forgotten Element
no ISBN, e-book only

DC 4.75/5
Humans are basically treated as mythological creatures that don't exist. They do in the second book. 3.75/5
CA 5/5
See above. Wyvern-riding and mental bonding exists in the second novel, however.
PS 2/5
Sort of does run into the same pitfalls as Wings of Fire where dragons seem to have almost the same socioeconomic issues and societies as humans.


Fire of the Phoenix (2021) by Azariah Jade
Fantasy (xenofiction)
A coming of age story that begins when a terrible calamity falls upon a hatchling's clan, forcing him into exile with the burden of a horrible curse. This would be in the main page if not for the pacing of the latter half of the novel.
ISBN-13 979-8452680505

DC 3.75/5
This product may contain humans.
CA 4/5
PS 3/5
The "curse" and its source acts as the main antagonist of the story, with humans playing a relatively minor role. More focus is given to the different customs between dragon clans and their way of life.


Lazy Scales (2020) by DM Gilmore
Urban Fantasy (TF)
The last dragon on Earth seeks to propagate his species. An ordinary high school student has a very lucky unlucky day. Part of a 10-book series where the plot and worldbuilding only starts to get interesting around 5 novels in. Would recommend if you like vore.

DC 2/5
CA 2/5
PS 2/5


My Name is Simon: I, Dragon (2016) by Nathan Roden
Fantasy (TF)
A prince is cursed as part of a scheme to steal the royal throne. I'm just going to save you an entire 4 books worth of time to say that he chooses to have the curse lifted and become an ordinary human by the end.

DC 1/5
CA 0.5/5
The other dragons in the story are unintelligent beasts.
PS 0.5/5


Old Dark (The Last Dragon Lord) (2016) by Michael La Ronn
Urban Fantasy/Science Fantasy
Part 1 of a three book series. The protag is an evil dragon lord who is overthrown by his own inner circle. He wakes up in the modern world to find his name reduced to legend and both magic and technology to have progressed beyond his comprehension. An old friend from his past helps prepare for his rise to power and glory again.

DC 3.5/5
CA 4/5
PS 2.5/5

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Dragons and Skylines (2022-2023) by Rowan Silver
Urban Fantasy (xenofiction)
There are many strong words that other anons have used to describe this, but the gist of the story can be summarized as: half of the humans are le xenophobic and wrongthink and also 99% of the dragons are also le xenophobic and wrongthink because of their (recently) traditional opinions seeking isolationism from human affairs; And that they should all be listening to the morally correct and superior half of the humanity preaching co-existence through dragon integration into human society, because unless the dragons begin thinking the same as the designated good half of humanity, their very dangerous!!!!!! opinions will lead to a war of mutual annihilation of both species. But don't worry, because our very strong, independent and feral dragoness protagonist learns that #notallhumans, befriending the rebellious le good wiccans against the le cartoonishly evil wizard cult who controls magic society (which I'm now going to refer to as Death Eaters, because that's what they basically are); While her other /humie/-poster brother is here to preach the correct human moral values due to his terminally online exposure to human culture.

For as much as the author hits the sweet spot on depicting alien mindsets in xenofiction, it seems that the dragons themselves have no agency other than being (the politically correcter) extremist reactionaries to a war manipulated by le Death Eaters and that the best ending they can hope for is allowing themselves to become a setpiece for humans to vicariously live out the image of a multi-species society, rather than what the dragons themselves may have genuinely wanted. By the third book it appears that the author finally grasped some self-awareness of this fact and managed to give the (not actually) trad dragon elder a win by having him be right in developing a magic nuke only to kill him off directly after, in which the weapon is seen as necessary only because the le wrongthinking half of humanity allied with le Death Eaters.

The most mind-boggling aspect of the story was when the author declared that the setting metaphysically functions off of moral relativism [literally name dropped in the story] (as opposed to moral objectivism), only to describe empathy ethics as the objective meta-ethical answer because the """realistic""" outcome of having opinions (deemed bad by the author) was graphically depicted in several scenes where the Death Eaters make human children use guns to genocide dragon hatchlings. This is further reinforced when the third brother to the main dragon sibling duo shows up after having been hinted at in the previous two novels. It turns out he is actually le bad boy protagonist, who uses nihilism/culturally appropriated from Sunyata magic only because he is le insecure and needs le empathy, for the self-hating super powerful half-dragoness half-male super valid human OC (who is supposed to be a commentary on internalized-racism or something) raised by humans to fix him; And they both learn the importance of empathy (toward only the people and opinions the author cares about) while throwing existentialism under the bus, probably along with Nietzsche, Kant and Sarte. Perhaps JK Rowling was onto something in Harry Potter when she had Sirius Black say "The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside of us."

Overall, I rate Atlas Shrugged a 7/10 would (unironically) read Ayn Rand's works again as a palate cleanser.

sorry, at this point I couldn't be bothered finishing reading these

Becoming the Dragon: A Fantasy Saga (2017) by Alex Sapegin
Fantasy (isekai/reincarnation)
Couldn't finish this because the prose was giving me a migraine. I apologize for not giving the author a chance but this reads like they put Russian directly into google translate.

Talon Series (2014) by Julie Kagawa
Urban Fantasy
Basically Twilight with dragons, where the main cast spend most of their time in humanform and think more like vampires with a grand conspiracy to take over the world. Replace Bella Swan with a girl who has a super special secret dragon bloodline (even amongst the other dragons), Edward and Jacob with a a rogue dragon agent and dragonslayer respectively and her brother with Peeta Mellark from The Hunger Games, and you have the entire 5 book series in a nutshell.

Tesser: A Dragon Among Us: A Reemergence Novel (2014) by Chris Philbrook
Urban Fantasy
A dragon wakes up in the modern world, then proceeds to be a womanizer.

Blasphemy Online Volume 1: Dragon Hack (2019) by Andrew Seiple
Science Fiction (vrmmo litrpg)
Adapted from the royalroad story. Loser protag in a dystopic future creates a dragon character in a vrmmorpg. Then, they both realize that they switch bodies whenever the other logs in.

The Hailwic Chronicles: The Shifter (2020) by Kendra Stone
Fantasy (transformation
Man learns that he is a sorcerer, then finds out that he has dragon powers.

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