Review: Unquiet Slumber - Excellent Beginning to a Wonderful Series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2013
Let me be honest: I am SHOCKED this book was free. SHOCKED.Tianna is a single young woman and the healer's apprentice of Trille, one of the many human villages on the island of Langaria. She's a constant outcast to the entire village for she is strikingly beautiful and has strange fire healing powers. The village people subconsciously feel the awaiting power that is within Tianna and keep their distance and make display of their disgust. Little does she know, she's meant for something big; something that will save all of Langaria from the destruction of evil that spreads throughout the land. Tianna is not the human she thought she was.Directed by the `Seer', four Draak (dragon) set out to find their prophesized warrior who will save all creatures of the land, human and magical, of Langaria. Here enters Tianna. There is something strangely familiar to them about this beautiful female. Finding her hunting in the woods, they take her under their wing (figuratively) and head to their Draak home,Haven. Along the way, learning of magical beings, their culture and  her heritage, adventure is around every corner. She slowly finds out who she really is and what, exactly, she is capable of.On the journey throughout this wonderful book, evil roams and destroys the land. They say a powerful warrior is among them that can stop this evil. Will they ever discover this prophesized warrior? Or will the evil continue to spread and destroy innocent lives, including Tianna's? (I'll end here so I don't become too much of a spoiler.)I highly recommend this book. It's set during a medieval time. Don't let that be your 'turn off'. This book, by all means, was ABOVE AND BEYOND my expectations.Tianna is fun, loving, selfless, adventurous, independent, innocent, strong-willed, kick butt (when needed), all wrapped up in a small package. The author found a way to make her many personality traits work for the character while winning your heart and defining the meaning of the ultimate heroine. Believe it or not, but I believe female-hero's can not be just strong-willed and independent. They need conflict with difficult choices, decisions, love, etc. The author blew me away with how well thought out and put together Tianna's character was.Lets move on to the men. Sometimes, when author's have several male 'sub-main characters', they all have similar personalities and usually are not well defined. Not these males. Each one has a different traits that make them unique - personality and characteristics that work together to make a great team that falls into the story like a piece to a puzzle.The love, adventures, power, and magic truly make the book one to remember.While I find the story amazing and unique, it is not very descriptive - not what the kind of 'descriptive' I'm used to anyways. But as the story continued to unfold, I found that I had learned to love this author's writing style. It just worked for the whole book. I was able to make the villages of Langaria my own, by getting vague descriptions of the people and their culture and then added my own influence and creativity with my mind's eye. It truly worked to grab my attention, make me focus on the book, and not want to put it down.If you like female hero-dragon-action-romance-heart break-undiscovered magic kind of books, this would be the one for you.Oh, and good luck getting any house work done while reading this series. I'm sure my family thinks I have abandoned them for the world within Langaria.