Friday 26 July 2013

Embers at Galdrilene (Dragon's Call) Book Review

Author: A.D. Trosper
Date of Publication: May 4, 2012 (Kindle)
Publisher: Silver Spirit Publishing
Pages: 496
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Paperback or Kindle: Both


Fiery Fantasy Thoughts

The war between the Guardians and the Shadow Riders ended in total devastation. The final battle killed all the dragons and left nothing but fields of ash. A small clutch of dragon eggs was all that remained to provide hope for the future.

Five hundred years later, the ability to use magic is a death sentence and dragons are remembered as a curse. But the un-hatched dragons sing for their riders...and six lives will be changed forever.

The elements of magic are drawn together as the dragons’ call leads them on a journey where they learn everything they've been taught to believe about magic and dragons is wrong.

With the last of the dragons and the world at stake, they will risk everything to heed the call.

But an evil from the past rises again. Shadow Dragons ride the dawn once more...

Firstly, I am not usually into fantasy books (that is Eva's interest!) however, this book pulls you straight in with the emotional descriptions of how painful it is for a rider to loose a dragon in battle.

We get to experience this as the story starts with Emallya fighting for her life as her dragon (Rylin) lays beside her, dead.

The separation Emallya experiences from loosing Rylin is beautifully narrated as you feel every inch of her pain, anguish and lack of desire to go on as this missing piece of her life will never be seen again.

I loved the way the author built up this fantasy world by showing the reader the scenes from each character's POV, however I did feel that this style of writing repeated a few scenario's which slightly dragged for me.

In the beginning the reader is propelled into the story with all the magical action of understanding how they would survive the aftermath of this war. The pace in the middle slowed down slightly as the author introduced us to new, strong characters and allowed us to understand the world a little more and in the end the pace picked back up, allowing a few questions to be answered in the fiery style of the beginning (no spoilers!).

I really enjoyed this novel and would recommend it to anyone who loves their fantasy books fast, in depth and magical from beginning to end!

I give it 4 wings out of 5 as I did enjoy and I think I am transformed into a Fantasy Fan!







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Alana

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