Review: Hold On To Your Dragons!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2011
Dragon NightBy Stephanie  CampbellHow can I describe this lovely sad and fierce book to you?Reading this book was like slipping into a fairy tale.  What is better...within the parameters of a story...than a lonely much aligned boy who doesn't fit in and is disliked and mistreated by his own parents?Not much really.  Liddy and Wicker are the parents of Ford.  They force him to work in their diner, he sleeps in the basement, he's never even had a birthday party...he always smells like pancakes and bacon and he doesn't even get to keep his diner tips!!!When weird changes begin to occur in his body...Liddy finally shares a bit of truth about his birth and Ford sets out on a quest to find his real father...love love love quest stories and this is a grand one!!!It is revealed to Ford that he is a Draconic...part dragon and part human...yikes!!!This is the stuff fairy tales are made of.Great fairy tales.And Ford has the potential to be a great Draconic.There is mystery surrounding Ford's father.  There  is a hierarchy among the dragons...Full dragons rule and half dragons do not and are forced to do what the dragons order them to do.Life is tough for a half dragon!!!And because everyone thinks that the bad boy of all dragons is Ford's dragon daddy...trouble is a brewing!!!Once you get to a certain point in a really great story it is almost impossible to stop reading.That is why at 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon...I am still in my pajamas and I have just finished this book...it is that good.Without telling you what actually happens...you have to read this book for that...you have to imagine that Ford is going to be the little dragon that possibly could bring the bad dragons down.Stephanie Campbell has captured the thoughts and feelings of these characters magnificently.There are really awesome battle scenes and fights and even a change of heart or two for some of the characters.It was well told and the story unfolded perfectly. While I was reading I cared about these people /dragons?I cheered, I worried, I had fear and then I had hope.I seriously think this is one of the best dragon stories I have read in a long time...I want a movie out of this...and a trilogy...or at least a sequel.