Reviewed: September 12th, 2023
Released: September 20th, 2022
Genre: Humourous Fantasy
Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.
But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away…because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.
Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom’s protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.
Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.
Helen’s thoughts: 5/5
Who doesn’t love grumpy dragons and the dream we all secretly have that we would be good enough to be a dragon rider?
Not sure I would want to enter this quadrant though, they don’t seem to value life much. You’re more likely to die than live, and even being bonded to a dragon doesn’t seem to be much of a protection.
Violet never planned to be a dragon rider, but she doesn’t have a choice. Fortunately, she is intelligent and determined, even if everyone wants her dead. Especially the super sexy Xaden Riorson, the son of the traitor who killed Violet’s brother. Hate at first sight soon morphs into something much more complicated as they both realise they are not what the others first thought.
Excellent tale. A real page turner that will keep you reading late into the night! I loved Violet and Xaden. The dragons were perfect, I want Andarna! And I can’t wait to learn more about them.
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