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Greater Treasures A DragonEye Novella eBook Karina Fabian

Yay! I finished Greater Treasures the same day I started, and yes, I was standing at the stove cooking dinner and reading the book at the same time. Excellent work from Karina Fabian, as always. I love reading about Vern, and this story lives up to the previous Vern stories I've read (most notably Live And Let Fly).

The story is set in a world where the Faerie universe has ruptured into ours, and Vern is a dragon currently working as a detective with a Catholic nun. Vern is a bit arrogant (although with good reason) and at the same time is struggling to be a decent person because part of his power has been stripped from him after a battle with Saint George, and the only way to regain those parts of him is to adhere to the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church. This results in the occasional remark to the police that of course he coudln't have killed that guy -- if he had, he'd have eaten him too. Vern's voice is blunt, a little sarcastic, and at times amazingly sensitive. I really like him.

My biggest complaint is a quibble, that the title isn't printed on the spine, making it difficult to find on my bookshelves. This won't bother those who read the ebook edition. I would also nitpick a bit with the speed of the ending, which wrapped up a bit faster than I would have wanted it to, but that might also be because I didn't actually want the story to end so I could keep on reading it.

Overall, I loved this story. Highly recommended!(less)


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Greater Treasures A DragonEye Novella eBook Karina Fabian Reviews

Ms. Fabian has done it again. Greater Treasures is truly a treasure. It was refreshing to see the softer, gentler side of Vern the Dragon, as dragons can get such a bad rap. There was a nice mix of faith with the rougher parts of the story, although I did have a little trouble envisioning Vern in the cathedral and Sister Grace's hospital room since most of the dragons I know are quite tall.
A quick, enlightening read that anyone who likes faith, fantasy and crime will enjoy.
I am a fan of detective stories and enjoy a good fantasy book every once in a while. So, I was intrigued when a member of my online book club mentioned Karina Fabian. Although the characters were a bit unusual (a detective dragon teams up with a nun to solve mysteries), the book had all the charm of an old-fashioned PI story. Plus it was entertaining and humorous. Already have another of Fabian's Vern books (Magic, Mensa & Mayhem) on the way. Looking forward to my next encounter with Detective Vern and Sister Grace.
Vern is a typical hardboiled detective--- except for the fact that he's a dragon. He comes from a magical realm called Faerie and now works in our Mundane world, along with his sidekick, the holy mage Sister Grace, as a private investigator.

In this adventure, an untrustworthy dame asks Vern to find her brother, who allegedly has joined a cult. Sister Grace must shadow a man to the cult headquarters, since Vern the dragon is a little conspicuous when he tries to tail someone. But Sister Grace is poisoned by a weapon meant for Vern, and now Vern has another mission, to find the antidote.

After various adventures it seems that a powerful magical artifact is what the bad guys are after. And Vern has a choice he can trade the artifact for a cure for Sister Grace, or he can destroy the artifact to keep it out of the wrong hands--- and let Sister Grace die.

While this story is more serious than the others in the DragonEye P. I. series, it has a lot of very funny stuff as well. I would recommend it to anyone who loves fantasy, especially fantasy that is faith-affirming. In fact, I already have recommended it and loaned my print copy of the novella out to a friend. That friend better give it back, though, or I'll hire Vern to come visit him.
I haven't read any of this author's books before, so this novella acted as an introduction. It's good enough that I'll probably look for some more, though it's not my new favourite.

The premise it's a liminal fantasy (this world and a world of magic become connected, and the story takes place on the borderland where magic and technology mix). The dragon defeated by St George was not killed, but reduced in power, and is now working as a noirish PI along with a magic-using nun, basically earning his powers back by doing good works. (The author is Catholic, and so is the dragon.)

It's a premise with a combination of well-worn and fresh elements, and overall it worked for me.

The language The book is generally well-written and the standard of editing is high, with only a couple of typos, impressive in an indie book.

The characters Vern, the dragon and first-person POV character, is convincingly both a dragon and a noir PI. He values his partner the nun very highly (in this story, she's injured early on and functions mainly as a motivator for his actions, but I would expect that in the series in general she has a more active role), and is, on the whole, a decent being trying to do the right thing. In part, this is because he can regain some of his dragon abilities by doing so, but it also seems to be heartfelt.

The secondary characters are not very developed, inevitably in a novella. They're one step above cardboard cliches, with at least a sense of being individuals, even if that individuality isn't fully explored.

The plot it's a fairly standard McGuffin plot straight out of the noir playbook. There's an untrustworthy dame who hires Vern, an untrusting policeman who reluctantly works with him, all the usual stuff, plus the danger-to-the-partner subplot. At novella length, plots are usually not that complicated, and this is no exception.

I felt the eventual resolution was a bit of a cheat, since if it was something that would have worked I would expect it to be a known solution already, rather than the spur-of-the-moment improvisation it's presented as. That's what lost the story the fourth star. It made good emotional and symbolic sense but bad logical sense, and to me, a resolution should be both emotionally satisfying and also plausible.

I liked the matter-of-fact, non-preachy incorporation of a living faith into the lives of the characters, and was impressed by the standard of the editing, but if this is to be a favourite series I'll be looking for more depth and greater plausibility in other stories.
Yay! I finished Greater Treasures the same day I started, and yes, I was standing at the stove cooking dinner and reading the book at the same time. Excellent work from Karina Fabian, as always. I love reading about Vern, and this story lives up to the previous Vern stories I've read (most notably Live And Let Fly).

The story is set in a world where the Faerie universe has ruptured into ours, and Vern is a dragon currently working as a detective with a Catholic nun. Vern is a bit arrogant (although with good reason) and at the same time is struggling to be a decent person because part of his power has been stripped from him after a battle with Saint George, and the only way to regain those parts of him is to adhere to the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church. This results in the occasional remark to the police that of course he coudln't have killed that guy -- if he had, he'd have eaten him too. Vern's voice is blunt, a little sarcastic, and at times amazingly sensitive. I really like him.

My biggest complaint is a quibble, that the title isn't printed on the spine, making it difficult to find on my bookshelves. This won't bother those who read the ebook edition. I would also nitpick a bit with the speed of the ending, which wrapped up a bit faster than I would have wanted it to, but that might also be because I didn't actually want the story to end so I could keep on reading it.

Overall, I loved this story. Highly recommended!(less)