Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: The Sun Dragon
SERIES: The Sun Dragon #1
AUTHOR: Annabelle Jay
PUBLISHER: Harmony Ink Press
LENGTH: 180 Pages
RELEASE DATE: January 28, 2016
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It’s been many years since the beauty of dragons riding the wind disappeared from the skies, destroyed by the corrupt King Roland and his greedy minions.
Or were they?
Instead of killing the dragons, Roland transformed them into humans so they could mingle with his people and breed him an army. Teenage Allanah saves her friend Victoria from falling victim to his scheme with newly manifested magical abilities. Another surprise comes when Allanah’s first high school crush, Jason, reveals he’s been sent by a clandestine council of wizards to test Allanah and Victoria’s arcane talents. No one is more amazed than Allanah when, during her trial, she produces the world’s first light dragon.
Allanah might be the only hope not just for her best friend but also for the survival of all the world’s dragons. In addition to her monumental task, she struggles to understand her feelings between her new attraction to Cormac, the wizard general, and her emerging desire for a beautiful, forest-dwelling Igreefee girl named Dena.
REVIEW:
The Sun Dragon is a book published for teens and young adults. It is focused on teens, with a very slight focus on a girl questioning her sexual identity, but all off screen…mainly. For most of our readers, this would not be your sort of book, because it would not be age appropriate for our mainly adult readers.
In the book we have a teenage girl named Allanah who has never really fit in at school. She struggles to stay focused, but is easily distracted. Her class grades reflect that, since they are mostly D’s or C-‘s. Luckily she has her best friend Victoria, the smartest kid in the class, to help her.
Imagine her surprise though when one day the world discovers that the President of the United States is actually an ancient evil king and sorcerer who in ancient times ensorcelled the dragons and forced them into human shapes. As part of the spell, the dragons don’t even know they are dragons, and have been breeding children for millennia. Now the evil sorcerer has reversed the spell and the dragons and their children have all turned back into dragons, causing panic in the streets!
Victoria and her family, it turns out, are dragons. When Allanah performs a great magic and saves Victoria from shifting to the dragon form, we, and the confused Allanah, discover that she is a witch.
This book would be a great book for a teen or young adult. It does not contain sex of any sort, not even the reference to it. It is vaguely a F/F/M type story, but again I would call it vaguely. I grabbed it because of the dragons and wizards, and it was a fast read which I flew through this morning. As an adult I noticed more what wasn’t there than what was. For example, the story had a bunch of people turning into dragons suddenly one day…midday…in full sight of tons and tons of humans. The President has announced he is an ancient evil sorcerer. But for the rest of the book, the characters, including dragons, sneak around like no one knows about them? Ummmm, wasn’t the secret already out?
I would say this book is age appropriate for mid-teens, but not really a good fit for adult readers. I personally would probably not be interested in reading further books in the series, but others who enjoy teen and young adult stories might disagree. I’ve got to rate it based on my experience and thoughts on the book, so I’m going to have to say it is Good/Average, or 3.0 stars.
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