After his friends help save the Rainwing tribe from the experiments of the Nightwings,
Starflight himself is captured by his tribe, where he is to be “trained in the Nightwing ways.”
While staying in his original home, Starflight discovers the truth about his tribe and is forced to
make the choice between his dragons and home or his friends and peace. In this book, the
reader can really get a genuine look at Starflight and see the reasoning behind his often
annoying actions and gives amazing depth to his character. By taking his tribe that he thought
Glory and her friends the Dragonets of the Prophecy are supposed to be the key to
ending the 20 year long war still raging in Pyrrhia. After escaping from the Seawing palace, the
dragonets head to the rainforest in search of Glory’s parents, but instead they find the lazy tribe
being hunted by mysterious monsters from the shadows. Glory decides to take things into her
own claws and hunts the monsters and runs for the queen position in order to help her tribe, and
in the process find the hidden home of the Nightwings. After saving her tribe, the dragonets
Tsunami is a Seawing, and part of a troupe of 5 dragonets prophesied to bring an end to
the 20 year war ravaging Pyrrhia. Tsunami ventures out to the kingdom of the Seawings in
hopes of finding her family, but when the royal nursery is attacked and her and the dragonets
are accused, Tsunami must earn back the trust of the kingdom to help free her friends, and
once done the dragonets are on the hunt again to look for their long lost families. When reading
this book, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I enjoyed it more than the first installment of
Clay, one of five dragonets who are prophecised to bring an end to the 20 year war in
Pyrrhia, wants to see the world with his friends after living under a mountain for their whole
lives. However, when the dragonets try to sneak out they are captured by the ruthless Queen
Scarlet of the Skywings’s guards and forced to fight in her area. The dragonets form a plan and
escape with some inside help and go off to explore the world and find their families that they
never met. I first read this book when I was in third grade and it made me fall in love with
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, written by Grace Lin, is a fantasy novel inspired by Chinese mythology and folklore. The book follows Minli, a young girl who lives in the Village of Fruitless Mountain, working hard and farming despite the terrible land of the Fruitless Mountain. Her father tells her stories and she wishes to have an adventure of her own. One day, she uses her money to buy a goldfish, and it turns out that the goldfish can talk.
Fire and Heist is a novel about sixteen-year-old Sky Hawkins, who is a wyvern: a human that has the ability to transform into a dragon. Unfortunately, most wyverns nowadays have lost that ability. What they haven’t lost, however, is their culture of stealing—in wyvern society, leading your first heist is the most important milestone of your life, and it determines everything about where you belong in the wyvern social order.
The fifth book in George R.R. Martin’s famous A Song of Ice and Fire series was just okay. This novel is essentially a repeat of the events from A Feast for Crows but from different characters’ perspectives. I was excited to revisit some of my favorite characters that I didn’t get to hear from in the last book, but they didn’t really add anything to the story. Daenerys had the most exciting scenes, in my opinion, but even she didn’t further the storyline; basically, in over 1,000 pages, nothing was accomplished.
Dragonslayer follows the story of three children and their experiences with dragons in the land of Pyrrhia. Wren was left by her village as a sacrifice for the dragons. She runs away and finds a lost dragon, and the two of them travel the world together. Leaf is distraught by her sister being eaten by dragons, and swears revenge against them. He sets out to become a dragonslayer and protect humans from what happened to his sister. Ivy thinks her father, Dragonslayer, is not trustworthy.
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le. Guin is the classic tale of how Ged, a young wizard, comes into his powers and repairs the mistakes of his youth, restoring balance to the land of Earthsea. Along the way he attends a school of magic, battles a dragon, and faces true evil. I really wanted to love this book. It’s high fantasy with a cult following and I wanted it to capture my heart the way that it has for so many people over the years.
Cantor has waited his whole life to leave his mentor and become a protector of all the realms. But he quickly realizes after he steps through his first portal that his job will be incredibly dangerous and difficult. The realms are plagued by crime and cruelty and even the members of the noble Realm Walkers Guild can not be trusted. To make matters worse, his first assignment to find with a dragon to help him has led him to one that will not leave him alone and is clearly not up to the task.
