Review: Too much info and yet not enough answers - this may be part 1 of 2 of the intro to Rush's new series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2013
Former lovers dragon Kirin and magic wielder Elle will have to put the past behind them in order to solve the mystery behind the disappearance of their missing fathers and it will take their combined powers and the power of love to  defeat a powerful entity which seeks their deaths.The beginning of this prequel short is heavy on the oddball terminology associated with the Crescent world of Deuces and Dragons and instead of pulling me into this new world that put me off enough that it took me two tries before I was able to make it through The Hidden.Still I like the idea behind this world - dragons and magic are generally a winning combo for me - and the conflict behind the story is interesting enough that I suspect that the real problem is that Rush tried to do too much in her short  - and didn't really have enough space to actually answer my questions about the magical part of the Crescent world while still having enough time to reconnect the former lovers. So I am guessing that it probably would have worked better to have read Dragon Mine to fill in the blanks about Kirin and Elle after reading the first book - especially since this story just reveals some clues about the background mystery without giving us the resolution.(ETA - there is actually another novellaDragon Rising (A Hidden Novella)in October before the first full length book,Dragon Awakened: The Hidden Series: Book 1, comes out in December so I am not sure if that short is really just part II of this one - since Dragon Rising has Kirin's sister is in the lead.)