This is one of the best stories I have ever seen, especially from the Dictators series.

The Dictators cycle is one of my favorite cycles. It is always a pleasure to receive such gifts from the author. for which many thanks. it is very strongly written, and for an adult, however, in my opinion, the end is somewhat ragged ... the style of presentation is impressive, I could not tear myself away - I read it excitedly.
this is all for now, but this is the first impression and it is the most important. thanks again! 😉

What can I say . Well written. Atmospheric. Lots of pianos. And of course not without malice. The author somehow managed to avoid some of the nuances before, but then he plunged into them. Why attack in the direction of SHUmil? Silly. amused by the phrase said by the dragon, “You can starve me, you can shoot me, but I won’t eat intelligent creatures.” and literally after a while, “I ate the man. I was not in a position to think about morality. I needed to survive and find my jailers. At any cost." What a quick change of priorities, what a great passage about self-worth 😉 five points. Another dirty, vulgar, evil piece of Hell broke out of the writer's soul. And if THIS is exactly how the story about dictators should end .. then it's time to bury Lockhart. Peace be upon him.
IMHO

I am very glad that the idea was not abandoned and a new book appeared. I will read it with great anticipation.

Perfect!!! A wonderful book. You read and you don't notice how it ends. A good continuation for the cycle ... I really liked it very much. Hopefully this won't be the last book in The Dictators. =)

There was such a fuss around the original KV (what was the essence of the conflict, I still don’t understand) that, unable to resist, I searched for the original for half a day.
What can I say. The original (especially against the background of other books) seems to be complete rubbish. It's annoying that the dragons, in their desire for revenge, actually stooped to the level of their enemies. The dragons, who for generations knew the word "war" only from the history books, have become the largest stronghold of militarism in the galaxy. The dragons, who went into a state of shock at the sight of senseless cruelty, competed to see who could kill the most “macaques” (those people behaved similarly, but this is not about them). Wing, the main peacekeeper in the galaxy, has become the best executioner in the galaxy. If the book was supposed to be anti-war, it failed: only one pole was shown, the pole of the avenging dragons. Throughout the book, they did not even give a reason to doubt the correctness of their methods.
The new book is kinder, and, in general, turned out better than the original.
Everything would be perfect if not for two “buts”. This is the reason for the start of the war, and the reason for its prevention. I will not go into details, spoilers are the eighth deadly sin (I apologize for the spoilers on the original, but there was no other way), I will only say that the first was frankly far-fetched, the second became a god from the car.
However, rewriting books, especially ten years ago, is generally a thankless task. The worldview changes a lot over time, and rebuilding something is always an order of magnitude more difficult than creating from scratch. And if you redo something from the middle ... It's like dismantling one wall during repairs. The chance that everything will collapse is dangerously high.