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As the title states. Dragons in HOD are named in one of two ways: dragons or warrior cats.

Caraxes, Vhagar, Balerion, and Syrax: dragons

Sunfyre, Moondancer, Sheepstealer, and Silverwing: warrior cats

Am I the only one who’s realized this??

This book is a serious disappointment coming off the Abhorsen trilogy. NOTHING happens for 2/3rds of the book, then a bunch of rushed events happen for the last 1/3rd with a terribly boring ending.

There is a handful of terribly interesting ideas: Ferin getting us a direct look into the lives and culture of the northern tribes, Nick becoming a literal Charter Stone, traveling beyond the Great Rift where the charter stops existing, BUT all these ideas are used in boring uninteresting ways.

Oh, Ferin is trained to excel in nearly everything due to her training? Well, she gets shot by a crossbow her first chapter and is injured the entire rest of the book.

Oh, Nick is literally a connection to the charter due to the events of Abhorsen? Well, 2/3rds of the book is just him traveling with Lirael doing nothing, then all his does with his new power is maintain a spell for awhile.

Oh, The Great Rift is a new place beyond the far north where oxygen and the charter stop existing? Well, they skip half the travel time and stay there for an hour before leaving and the book ends.

Oh, the Dog and Mogget come back for a cameo at the end? Well, they don’t do anything and leave in the same chapter.

Chlorr gets defeated with little fanfare, and she dies the exact same way Hedge does by the ninth gate, Sam shows up to do nothing and sleep with Ferin at the end, Sabriel and Touchstone are kind of around casting a spell every now and then.

This book is a SLOG to get to a few interesting sequences that end unsatisfying, then the book ends with basically nothing happening and no one changing. Somehow, the end of the book is super rushed cause Nix wasted the first 2/3rds with the characters farting around on their way to the plot. Theres an entire 2 chapters about trying to get Nick in the glacier, and it’s just Lirael arguing with some Clayr about the rules of the mountain.

This book is a waste of time, read the cliff notes and don’t waste your time waiting for something to happen.