Language: G (0 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG (some fighting, dungeons)
BUYING ADVISORY: EL - OPTIONAL
APPEALS TO: SOME
It has been 1000 years since the Dragon Mage set out to teach all humans magic, bringing into being the evil Revenants, so now magic can only be in the hands of the Emperor. At least that was 12yo Ciara and the others of the kingdom have been told by the Emperor and his descendants. But Ciara has found the journal written by the Great Betrayer - or Bianca as she was known by the Dragon Mage, and Ciara uses the journal to summon a dragon! Scorch, the dragon, doesn’t want to train Ciara - he’s been asleep for 1000 years and he needs to find out where everything went so wrong and where the other dragons and their apprentices. Ciara needs to save her mother and defy the Warden, who wants the journal. If Scorch and Ciara can’t learn to work together, the Emperor will win.
Ciara is the embodiment of chaotic good - she knows what she wants and she will take the little she knows in order to do what she sees as right. Scorch doesn’t help matters as he prioritizes his own wants over Ciara’s. And the Dragon Mage didn’t help things by making it impossible for a dragon to harm a human (just saying - a little fire applied to the right behinds would make things much easier). Young readers will enjoy the plethora action that furthers the story and won’t miss the lack of any kind of world-building or backbone to the story.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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