Review: Fantastical world!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2014
The author gave me this copy in exchange for a fair & honest review.I read Hidden (Dragonlands, Book 1) last year and fell in love with the story, the characters, and Megg Jensen. My favorite genre of all time is sci-fi/fantasy and I've read many, many books in this genre--some good, some not so good. Hidden falls into the very good category. Hunted, though, was even better, if that's possible. First, Jensen is one of the better world-builders that I've had the pleasure to read. She gives enough description to keep the reader knowledgeable but not so much that the reader skips sections. My copy was an arc copy so I'm not sure what the book will contain but I would LOVE to see a map showing the land broken up into the different dragon-ruled sectors. Second, the characters are wonderful! Fully realized human beings with realistic emotions like greed, love, indecision, confusion, lust, apathy, the characters are driven by these feelings which makes for a very entertaining read. Third, the beasts and creatures--oh my! In Hidden, the people in the trees were my favorite creations--a little bit creepy and a lot like a forest fairytale. In Hunted, the dragons totally ruled the book. Babies, adults, eggs hatching, characters who don't know they are dragons, and adolescent dragons, soft scales and hard scales, forked tongues, good and bad dragons, black, red, gold, blue, and green dragons. What a fantastical world that Jensen has created! And lastly, the plot was exciting as usual. Non-stop action, well-written adventure, plots that thicken, surprises left and right. I can't say enough good about Hunted and Hidden. Now I will be impatiently waiting for Book Three to see what happens next!!