Review: Cinderella meets Pern
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2013
I don't know why I don't read traditional fantasy more often. I always end up loving the books! Always! And Caller of Light was no exception. Shaw builds a completely unique world full of Critons, which are essentially dragons. The Critons bond with their riders but they sometimes need assistance from a caller. Unfortunately the last caller dropped off the face of the earth over a decade ago.Meanwhile, Carina is our spirited underdog. Abused and treated as a servant in her own house she captures the heart of a King. Her evil half sister is willing to do whatever it takes to sabotageCarina and Duncan's relationship. Meanwhile there's political intrigue and looming threats of war in Duncan's kingdomThe only thing I didn't like, and yes, I know, this is crazy nitpicky,  I didn't like that Criton was capitalized. I get that their sentient super special cool dragon like creatures, but you don't capitalize dragon, you capitalize the dragons name. I don't think I would have noticed at all had I not just had to do a global edit for something very similar. But I did notice, and the word criton was used here about as often as the word horse would be used in a western so it just kept poking at me.However, I just read a long book and my only complaint whatsoever is the capitalization of one word. I think that speaks volumes for how GOOD this book is