Review: Dragon lovers are in for a treat!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2012
This story begins with the selection of a group known as the Elite.  Young girls are stripped from their parents when they come of age.  This story takes us through the process by focusing on the twin boys and their chosen mates.  Matt was lucky.  He had met and fallen in love with Kat 5 years before the selection process even began.  He could never tell Kat how he felt, what he was, or that he hoped she would be chosen as an elite so they could be together.  All he could do was be there for her when she needed him and hope that through his friendship, he could gain her love.  He was ready to give up everything and run away with her if she wasn't selected.  His heart beat solely for her, and there was no other for him.  Matt was determined to tell his father of his wishes, only to be smiled upon because his feelings for the girl were so apparent.  Of course she was chosen as an elite, his father assured him.  His twin Jason, however, wasn't as fortunate.  He had no interest in marriage, or mating and hated having to go through this.  But this was a rite of passage, and a necessity.  When he entered the room and looked over the females that had been chosen, his eyes were immediately drawn to Gwen.  She wasn't the most beautiful or the curviest, but she seemed to be the only one there that really didn't want to be there.  It was that honest expression that drew him to her and his choice was made.This really was quite an enjoyable book!  You start off thinking the characters are all given to you at face value, good twin and not so good twin, which ends up throwing you completely off balance towards the middle of the story.  The political churnings inside the book are surprising and there is a lot going on behind the scenes that is only hinted at during the book.  This book leaves you wanting to dive into the next because of all the unanswered questions.  It truly keeps you on your toes as far as guessing want is really in store for our characters.  Its hard to say which character is being totally honest, not only with themselves, but with the others involved.  I did enjoy Navi.  This was the twins stepmother, and was in her own rite, a story inside of another one.  I would have liked to have known more of her story.  But I suspect those answers are going to be waiting for us in the next book!