Review: A Gripping Action-Adventure Novel...With a Female Protagonist!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2013
I often lament to my husband that most fictional characters that I can relate to are male, simply because there aren't very many strong female characters on television, in the movies, or in books, particularly in the action-adventure genre. Michael Murray has changed all of that with "The Gift of the Dragon."Alice Sangerman is an ordinary woman thrust into an extraordinary circumstance when she receives a cryptic message from her friend, Sara, requesting a clandestine meeting. At the meeting, Sara hands Alice a dragon necklace, telling Alice that it had belonged to her father, who has been killed. Moments later, Sara is killed by a hit man, who then demands that Alice hand over the necklace. After narrowly escaping the hit man, Alice is forced to run for her life, relentlessly pursued by assassins who will stop at nothing to get hold of the dragon necklace, all the while trying to uncover the shocking truth about the necklace and its power...and why it must never fall into the hands of those who are desperate to get it."The Gift of the Dragon" is a thrilling roller-coaster ride that will pull you in and compel you to keep turning the page. I look forward to the next installment in this series!