Review: Oh I love this noble dragon. Fascinating read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
I spent the whole day yesterday finishing Reawakening because I was just hooked from page 1. The beginning has to be one of the best opening I have read in a fantasy. Kudos to the writer for her amazing imagination in creating such a rich world and interesting characters. However patience is needed as the information and history of this world is a lot to take. Fortunately there is a historian guide at the back of the book which is best read along with the story. And this brings up the point that this book is better appreciated as a print copy as one can then easily flick back and forth to the historian guide. But one does not need to remember or understand everything to enjoy the characters and their story as the well paced plot is not confusing. As for the characters they are all well developed including the secondary ones. I have to say I really like the idea of a group of women amazons who fought for their king once upon a time. Too bad this series did not start right from the very beginning of its history! Not that I did not enjoy it as it is.The story is told from Tarn's point of view with a lot of input from the secondary characters which enhances the execution of the story.  I love this very ancient and noble dragon and there is something very touching and pure about his desire to earn his hoard and not take it by force. Gard, the fiery desert spirit is quite a hoot and proved to be a handful for our dragon king. Their bantering is fun as our feisty desert spirit just refuses to be the heart of our dragon's hoard, lol. The tone is light but there are instances of sadness too as Tarn contemplates on the hoard that he has lost for such is the tragic consequence of human mortality. I love those instances when Tarn is in his dragon form and that scene with Gard on the roof of the citadel is just comical.The plot is the typical classical fantasy of good versus absolute evil but I love it because of the characters. There is no cliff hanger but I am very pleased indeed when I read in the writer's website this is a series and that she is currently working on a second book. Certainly this world and its characters deserves many more stories. And as a MM fantasy lover, I just could not get enough of these majestic dragons and their spirit/god lovers.