However, not only is Lee competing against Annie, but rumors are circulating that some of the royal family have survived and have dragons of their own. Their dragons are finally mature enough for them to compete for Firstrider, a position of power that can give Lee back a small part of what his family lost. Nine years later, a new generation of dragonriders is emerging, children selected and trained on merit, not bloodlines. For too long the dragonriders held all the power while their people starved and lived in fear. What happens to the world after the dust from a revolution has settled?įriends Annie and Lee were children from very different circles when Atreus killed Lee’s father, dragonlord Leon Stormscourge, ending the uprising on the bloodiest day in Callipolis’ history. Slightly uneven but rich and exciting throughout. Post-reveal, the novel shifts to classic fantasy fare: travels across rough terrain death, danger, kidnapping romanticized Romany-esque wanderers epic love a magical gift of “listening without ears seeing without eyes.” A bold ending whets appetites for the next installment, in which, readers will hope, the assassin will become a less cryptic character. As the text shifts to labeling each boy’s chapters by name rather than noun, Pearson plants more red herrings than truthful hints about which boy is which some readers may guess right, while others will have it wrong until the explicit reveal. The boys converge on the inn and enter posing as friends, neither knowing the other’s identity, each using the ruse to his own ends. Lia narrates in the first person, but so do two others: the jilted Prince, intrigued by and resentful at her flight, and the Assassin, sent from a third land to kill her. She settles in a fishing village and works, mostly incognito, at an inn. She’s the king’s First Daughter, but she won’t tolerate an arranged life, no matter how old the tradition. Unwilling to marry a foreign prince she’s never seen to secure a treaty between nations, Lia bolts from her father’s castle on the wedding day. There are two sides to every story-unless there are three.
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