Review: Life from ashes
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2014
I started this series because I was given the books for my honest review and I was hooked from the very beginning. I've cried, I've laughed, and I swore up and down at the loss of  my favorite characters but nothing prepared me to fall so hard for this series. Drastona or Stone as her friends call her grew from he scared little girl who wanted nothing more than to be a scribe to the strong and fearless woman who would lead her people to freedom no matter what the cost to her.She fought many battles and found love in the darkness but in the end she found who she was truly destined to be.Stone also made friendships that she never had before. Friends that would give their lives to protect her.Friends, even hour their world was on the brink of destruction, would follow her to the ends of the earth.This book was just Amaizing.. So much loss but out of the ashes came life anew.Lochlen was my favorite character.. He is a dragon but can shift himself to a human form. The only thing giving him away are his eyes.. He's cocky and hard but honest and loyal to his friends. he's one of Stones closest friends and she finds comfort with him.In the last books Stone lost a lot. her freedom, her family, and mostly her first love but she found that life must go on and that she had bigger issues that needed her full attention. With the crazy King Raemon trying to take over Medesia she had to figure out how to kill him before anymore destruction could happen.With prince Cadeyrn by her side anything was possible. He was also a fearless leader. Strong and valiant, he had lost so much in this war, it had made him closed off and angry but his friendship with Stone had changed him. they fed off of each others power. It calmed hem and with no words spoken they took solace in each other's company.I loved every word on every page of this book. I rooted for the good guys and hoped the bad would die slow and painful deaths. Was that wrong of me, nah.. The creeps deserved all my hate. I was a little let down but I guess not every happy ending is exactly the way we want it to be..The best cry I've had in forever.. thank you R.K. Ryals for letting me into this cruel world.