Totally Captivating!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2024 | Rating: 5/5 | Best Sellers in Kindle Store
wow it has been a long time since i have actually felt tension while reading a book i can read the biggest action scenes at the end of various books and the majority of the time they just dont affect me at all  because i dont care that much about the characters but this  this was different i felt the tension and it was real plus the author is very willing to kill characters so there is some uncertainty there as well and the battle at the end of this most excellent book  it was hot and raging plus the enemy leaked danger as well true menace very rarely does some enemy in a book impress me at all but this one most certainly did right from the description i just knew there was something different about these mages called venin they seemed impressive too and very memorable i wanted to draw them based off of the description very rarely do i get that urgebut what a battle at the end it was touch and go what would happen would the heroes win or lose i didnt know and i felt concernthis book has made me feel things earlier it had made me cry  tears of joyand the book has surprised me too the plot twists i guess i should have seen it coming but i didnt so i was quite surprised but it certainly makes the story way more interesting and i am certainly eager to read the sequel too this is a massive book and worth reading every word and rarely do i feel that way but its exciting and the characters face so many challenges and there is death too in fact there is a lot of death in here its a very violent world a tough world of dragons and griffins and things that are supposed to be only legends to scare kids to eat their vegetablesbut what i love the most in here in the main character violet she has a connective tissue disorder i have one too its called ehlers danlos syndrome  eds  and i am pretty confident that violet actually has eds i have never run across a character in a book before that has eds and certainly not one that is bold enough to be in a fantasy world where she rides a dragon how cool is that so yes i certainly can relate to her very well and so much of the stuff in here is quite accurate too exercise is the best way to protect the joints and personally i find diet matters a ton too and yes it certainly can make many things way harder the joints are all wonky and they naturally hyperextend so doing things  even just balancing  is way harder but riding a dragon i remember when i was much younger i used to read this other very popular fantasy series that included dragons and i used to try to imagine what it would be like to ride a dragon of course i never thought about the issues of staying on said dragon but since i ride horses these days i have a better idea of some of the issues but wow this book is totally amazing it totally captivated my attention the first evening i started it i got 50 through and i certainly would have powered through the second half yesterday but unfortunately i have packing to do as i am moving at the end of the monthif i could i would rate it 6 starsthe characters are just so real and they go through character arcs too they change they face obstacles and have to find solutions and there is certainly a bit of romance in here too the story moved so smoothly never a dull moment at all none and i just loved the first person writing in here from violets viewpointbut the story is about a young woman named violet who has been forced by her very powerful mother to become a dragon rider that is a warrior but her body is weak and ill suited for it so she was training to be a scribe but all of that writing would be a huge strain on her too  in fact i cannot write very long at all by hand anymore without pain  numbness going down my arm and i get horrid shoulder pain but that changed  she had to go be a dragon rider or die trying but its not that easy in fact its very dangerous most people who try to become a rider end up dead and you can be killed by your own classmates yes its a very brutal school and after all of these difficult obstacles  which violet is ill suited to pass  she has to hope that a dragon will pick her but what dragon will pick someone with a body that doesnt work right due to genetic mutationsand all of that is near the beginning of the book for a huge mysterious and dangerous problem is brewing in the kingdom and poor violet will run smack into it  err  fly into it if she can stay on the dragon that isyou definitely should read this