The Dragonbone Chair

Pros

• honorable mentions, books that have just missed out on the top-10 but that were still absolutely excellent. ... The Drabonbone Chair by Tad Williams
• Dragonbone Chair. Tad Williams.
• I’ve been reading The Dragonbone Chair and it’s great, but I can’t help but feel the unscratched itch for something faster and more easily digestible.
• That first 300 pages are slow, and I'll admit that the first time I tried reading The Dragonbone Chair that I stopped partway through, but a second attempt made me a fan.
• I fucking loved it. Genuinely one of the first fantasy books I’ve read in a long time that revived that giddy feeling I had when I was in middle school and high school reading WoT and ASoIaF for the first time. Yes the pacing was slow, b...

Cons

• There are plenty of reviews warning that the first half of book 1 is the worst, but I didn't really feel that to be the case. It is slow, yes, but it spends that time setting the scene quite nicely overall - and is followed by the (first...
• I only barely managed to finish the first book. It got a tiny bit more interesting near the end, but Simon stayed super passive and boring. The romance was also very dumb—he just suddenly decided he liked her after he realized she was a...
• People frequently complain of the slow start -- not much happens until after page 100. It's a valid complaint, though I loved the slow paced beginning myself.
• I wouldn't count it for either the normal or hard mode bards square. The Dragonbone Chair has a very clear primary protagonist in Simon who doesn't fit any of the categories that fulfill the square. Sangfugol is a minor character, and To...
• It starts with the dragonbone chair which starts slow, the first couple of hundred pages are world building that pays off but even dyed in the wool Williams fans admit he takes a moment to get going