Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 Dinosaur Lords has medieval knights riding dinosaurs into battle. Your decision to read the book will inevitably be based not on this or any other review but on precisely how excited you feel by the phrase "medieval knights ride dinosaurs into battle." Seriously, either you are rolling your eyes to the heavens like "Lord, what will these wacky people do next" or you've stopped reading and are madly one-clicking at Amazon or wherever you do your clicking. Godspeed, my fellow clickers. Godspeed. 
 I had high expectations of this book but they were also very simple expectations. I wanted to see knights ride into battle on dinosaurs. These expectations were met, frequently. These are graphic, violent battles and horses, dinosaurs, and people die horrible bloody deaths, so, trigger warning for violence towards people and animals. I enjoyed reading about how different dinosaurs are used in different ways, and how this involves various strategies. It's not all Tyrannosaurus Rex all the time. Triceratopses (yes, I goggled the plural) carry "wicker fighting castles full of archers". Hadrosaurs will stomp the shit out of anyone, but they are most feared for their "terrible, inaudible battle cry, pitched too low for the human ear to hear, but potentially as damaging as a body blow from a battering ram." A knight's worst fear is that he be trapped beneath his fallen dinosaur mount and slowly be crushed to death by his own dinosaur and his own armor. 
 My problem with the book was that I wasn't invested in the characters and I didn't understand why I should care about any of the outcomes. Groups would ride into battle and I had only the most vague sense of why they were riding into battle and why I should care who won or even who lived. The most relatable character is Rob, who brings an everyman perspective to the story. Karyl is mysterious, Melodia is, frankly, pretty bratty, and Jaume seems to drift from lover to lover, battle to battle. 
 If you want to read this, it will have to be because you dig medieval politics, gritty Game of Thrones-style fantasy, and knights on dinosaurs. When it comes to these three things, particularly the latter two, the book excels, but warning that the emphasis here is on "grit". 
 - Carrie S.