Gabe Hudson's Exciting But Confusing "Gork, The Teenage Dragon"

 

Gabe Hudson’s Exciting But Confusing Gork, The Teenage Dragon

by Felix Lee

 

              Gork, The Teenage Dragon by Gabe Hudson is a science fiction, fantasy novel, featuring teenage dragon Gork The Terrible. Despite his family’s reputation of having the most ruthless dragons, Gork, nicknamed “Weak Sauce”, isn’t one of them. Having a humongous heart, tiny horns, and a condition of constant fainting, Gork is ranked the lowest in his class in all dragon standards, and all hope seems lost for him as a dragon. When Crown Day, the day all male senior dragons propose to female dragons, arrives, Gork sets his goals high and aims to propose his crown to Runcita, one of the hottest dragonettes in his class. The consequences of failure, however, are equally high, as rejection would mean life as a slave forever. With all odds against him, including other tougher seniors attempting the same quest as him and a 99.9% chance of death, the story proceeds to follow Gork’s risky adventure as he desperately tries to chase Runcita. Will he succeed in making Runcita his queen?

 

              I have mixed feelings about this book, but there seem to be more bad points than good ones. The overall story is exceptionally exciting, and the scenes, actions, and setting are adequately descriptive. Although it’s quite the rollercoaster, the plot makes sense from the start to the middle of the novel. However, as the ending of the book approaches, the storyline becomes more and more baffling. There is a constant lack of context and explanation of certain aspects that confused me. For example, Gork just appears in one place, without any context as to how he transports from the previous place he was at, and Runcita, who was nowhere near his previous place, somehow ends up at the same place. There are times where the writer leaves out a detail of the story so it’s mysterious and leaves the reader to formulate their own creative ideas. However, in this case, the writer leaves out crucial information, leaving the reader too confused to even come up with any ideas. In the few times that explanation is provided, it’s often last minute and often drifts off to another anecdote that isn’t remotely connected to the current story.

 

Overall, although the scenes are exciting and descriptive, the lack of contextual information and confusing plot overpowers all other aspects of the plot. If you want a book that is thrilling and don’t care much about the understanding of the plot, this book should great for you. Otherwise, although I don’t say this very often, I do not recommend this novel.