Review: Pat's Book Review
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2012
I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my review.I've read all three of LJ DeLeon's Warriors for Light series: Warrior's Rise (Book 1), Dragon Child (Book 2) and Absolution (Book 3).. Unfortunately having received Absolution first as a review book, I read it first. When I received Dragon Child next, I realized there was a series of three, so I purchased Book 1 and read it prior to reading Dragon Child. Many series books' characters and stories aren't as closely intertwined as the Warriors for Light series and can be read in any order. Not so with the Warriors for Light series.After being introduced in Book 1, I was glad to see that Dragon Child would continue the stories of Moira O'Neal, a fire-breathing dragon, and Major Steve Taylor, a wereleopard in the Army For Light.Moira and Steven along with some other favorite characters are on a dangerous mission to find a missing Fae princess switched at birth with Moira and the princess's twin daughters before the Dark Lord of the Abyss finds them.Along the way, Moira discovers her emerging powers as a dragon shifter and her attraction to Steve. The backdrop of this story proceeds with more details of the war between dark and light begun in Warrior's Rise. Many of the favorite characters from Book 1: the gargoyles, mages, shifters, Fae and the leaders of Team Light, Deva and Padraig, all add to the intrigue of this book.I'm used to ready paranormal novels, but most of the ones I've read don't include so many different kinds of non-human characters or so many different worlds. While reading this series, I felt that I needed a genealogy right beside me. It made it more confusing than intertaining. I did enjoy reading the series, but feel there is a story missing unless there is a Book 4 forthcoming.