My Quick Takes:
- 4/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Genre 📚 upper ya fantasy
- Language 🤐 none
- Spice ❤️🔥 kisses only
- Content 🤔 violence, past death and abandonment
A solid no-spice read for YA readers 👏🏼
Black flexes big time for this YA chonker (and its part of a series!) This book leaned heavily into academia and forbidden elements. I really enjoyed the forbidden romance and yearninggggg 👌🏼
I didn’t necessarily expect the plot of this book to be what it was. I thought it would focus more on dragons and racing and it was very heavily academic and foundational plot formation. Due to my personal mismanagement of expectations (its me, not you) it took me a bit longer to get into the storyline.
I’m also questioning if I’m a dragon girly?! I don’t think I am. I’ve read a couple of dragon specific fantasy books now and dragons feel no more special to me than any other fantasy creature. I didn’t read many dragon books growing up (like Eragon) and so I think I missed the dragon hype boat. So, If (unlike me) you’re obsessed with dragons, I think you’ll really enjoy this book, the dragons are super fun!
At the end of the day, I love having Black’s books as an option for YA readers because I trust her to write no spice and no language. While there are themes of different heavy topics, she only dips her toes in so that almost all ages in the YA age range can enjoy her books (dependent on reader preferences and maturity).
OH! The endingggggggg. It ends on a huge cliffhanger. So excited for what’s to come in this series, I plan to continue reading once the second book is released!
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