Realistic characters, ancient stories, and Dragons make for an awesome debut novel by Kristen Ciccarelli. Are dragons really the bringers of destruction she has been lead to believe, or has someone been lying? Truths start to be revealed that cannot be denied. With his help, her quest to kill Kozu seems to get more and more complicated. Rescuing Torwin requires Asha to help him escape and an unlikely alliance is formed. What should be an easy task becomes much more complicated when her brother Dax asks her to save one of Jarek’s slaves from a deadly lashing. When Asha’s father offers her a chance to gain her freedom in exchange for the head of the First Dragon Kozu, she eagerly takes up the challenge. Jarek is a cruel, drunken, brute of a man that Asha will do anything to be rid of. Her other act of atonement will be to marry the cruel commandant on her eighteenth birthday. To atone for her sin, she became a killing machine, destroying as many dragons as she can find. For breaking this rule, the First Dragon, Kozu, set fire to her entire town, killing hundreds, destroying homes, and disfiguring the entire side of her face and chest. As a child, she did the forbidden she told the ancient stories outlawed by the king. She is ferocious, fearless, and just plain fierce.įeared and reviled by all in the kingdom, it is illegal to touch her or even meet her gaze. She goes out into the Rift with her trusty ax and takes down dragon after dragon. And what a fearsome destroyer she is! Her grandmother enslaved a whole population of foreigners, made enemies of the dragons, and banned the old stories. The death bringer.Īsha, the daughter of the Dragon King, is that destroyer. But where there is light, there must be darkness-and so there was also the Iskari. In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of the sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went.

It was it was raining, it was the long weekend, and it was just that good! I would like to preface this review by stating that I read this entire book in one day.

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