Quarter Finalist
Assessment:
Plot/Idea: The author has created a complex story line nestled against stunning worldbuilding. The plot is rich and meandering, but laser-focused on the details for discerning readers.
Prose: Dragons Unremembered is a foreign and complex world, and the author is able to recount its history and culture through narration and dialogue, rather than long, descriptive passages—a potent way to set up the story while still engaging readers.
Originality: The book hums with diverse characters and a vibrant, multilayered setting, and the creative storytelling flawlessly immerses readers in the plot.
Character/Execution: Readers will glean insight into the main players through their words and actions, and the large, varied cast is most effective when reacting naturally to the tense moments in the story.
Date Submitted: May 15, 2023
A gender balanced fantasy adventure
The novel is very well written fantasy adventure in a well flushed out world. The characters are in depth and cross all genders with strong female protagonist in important roles in the world. the novel is in depth in its world building with maps and songs that enrich the sense that this is a real world with its own history and culture. I highly recommend this to anyone who loves fantasy, strong female characters, and in depth worlds.
A fantasy that is oh, so real...
Do you enjoy fantasy stories? Dragons and demons? Sorcerers and wizards?
Do you like romance, with a little mystery tossed into the mix?
If so, then this book, DRAGONS UNREMEMBERED, is for you. This is the first volume in the saga of the world of Carandir.
The story is excellently well-done. Appendices give a guide to pronunciation and word origins. There are maps, showing the land of Carandir. There are words to music, with the actual notes to music that someone so included could play. Several poems are placed throughout the book.
Which one of the twin brothers, Prince Ryckair or Prince Crya, becomes King? Which one ends up with Mirjel, the daughter of a powerful baron?
The ending draws the reader right into book two of three. I was also left pondering the story when I finished. It seemed oh, so real...
David Wimsett doesn’t disappoint.
A Good Story
I usually do not like narrative story telling, but this had a great storyline with LOTS of intrigue, drama, and betrayal.
David did a wonderful job and deliver a great story
A fast and addicting fantasy read
I really enjoyed this novel. The engrossing narrative smoothly expands to multiple story lines that fluorish individually, and then come back together neatly; so the reader is never left befuddled. Between reads the characters stayed with me as I tried to imagine what was coming next. And when I got back to the story what did happen was better than I guessed. An advantage of this fully created fantasy world is that the events and character reactions to them feel real and in hindsight all make sense; this author avoids any unsatisfying deus ex machina. In summary, it's a good read, pick it up!
Dragons Unremembered was a triple medal winner The BookFest Awards with a silver medal for Literary Fantasy & Science Fiction, bonze medal for Fantasy Action & Adventure and a bronze medal for Fantasy Dragons & Mythical Beasts in the Spring of 2023.
Dragons Unremembered will be represented at the Frankfurt International Book Fair running from October 16th to the 22nd of 2023. The books will be displayed on a dedicated shelf in the Independent Book Publishers Association booth.
The fair is the largest event in the world for publishers from many nations to find books they can license to translate and publish in their counties.
Also on the shelf will be the other two books of The Carandir Saga epic fantasy trilogy, Half Awakened Dreams and Covenant With the Dragons, as well Beyond the Shallow Bank, historical fiction set in 1901 Nova Scotia, Canada with rumours of the selkies, seal people from Celtic mythology.
