My biggest criticism is that some of the twists were rather predictable. This has left his bad side unchecked and it’s festered. I really appreciated this, as it felt far more nuanced than your typical villain/antagonist. He’s simply an unpleasant man with too much power that has gone to his head. He’s not a plain evil man trying to destroy the world, but he doesn’t have this big sob story of a background.
Jarek is a great antagonist – he’s just such a horrible creep that I was rooting for Asha to succeed just to spite him. It was certainly action packed, but was balanced by enough slower – but important and often tense – moments to catch your breath. The ending left the book in a nice place for the second to pick up on.
Just before her wedding, her father the King offers her another option – kill the oldest and fiercest of the dragons, the one responsible for the destruction wrought the city.Īs Asha sets out to kill the dragon, her path crosses with a slave boy who turns her life upside down.Īs a lover of stories, the ideas that stories are bad, poisoning the tellers and bringing down dragon fire, is very cool – and more than a little worrying! This was what drew me to this story because I wanted to know why stories were killing people. Though she hunts the dragons down, her people still fear and revile her.Īs part of her atonement, she’s set to marry the commandant – the repulsive Jarek who want to possess her.
Series: first in trilogy - second slated for September 2018 Summary:Īsha is a dragon-slayer, atoning for the crime of telling the Old Stories that brought dragon-fire down on her people and herself.
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