| Genre | Lesbian / Bisexual / Fantasy / High Fantasy / Magic / Mythological Creatures / Wizards, Witches, and Mages / Young Adult / Romance / Action/Adventure |
| Reviewed by | Serena Yates on 27-July-2016 |
Dragons once roamed the skies, as common as our modern-day airplanes but much more beautiful in their gliding, soaring thermal choreography. Until King Roland and his gold-greedy men defeated them.
Years later King Roland reveals that not only did he let the dragons live, but he turned them into humans so that they could enter the population and breed him an army. Allanah, a sophomore in high school, saves her know-it-all friend Victoria from exactly this fate with magical powers she never knew she had. Allanah’s first high school crush, Jason, reveals that he’s been sent by a secret society of wizards to bring Allanah and Victoria to the Council to have their magical abilities tested by The Egg. Everyone, including Allanah, is shocked by what she produces: the world’s first light dragon.
Allanah must save her best friend and all of the rest of the dragons from Roland’s evil plan, but when she meets the beautiful Dena, a member of the native forest-dwelling Igreefee camp, she must wrestle between her feelings for her new wizard crush, Cormac, and her attraction to Dena.
The imaginative and exciting world of ‘The Sun Dragon’ pulled me in from the beginning. Other than the magical prologue that sets up the problem explored in this series, Allanah’s teenage world seems utterly “normal”, i.e., nonmagical at first. That doesn’t last very long though, and soon the revelations, threats, and unexpected events merge into an adventure of the best and most fantastical kind. Allanah’s journey of discovery of her abilities, her heritage, and the magical world that has been hidden for centuries is breathtaking. There are epic battles, magic to be learned and understood, and all kinds of exotic creatures to discover. I loved every minute of this first book and already look forward to reading the next book set in this world.
Allanah’s life is not easy, what with her lack of academic brilliance, but nothing out of the ordinary for a teenager growing up with an utterly organized single mother and a best friend who is far more beautiful and popular than Allanah. When the president himself reveals the secret world of dragons and the danger everyone is in from evil King Roland, Allanah discovers that she has magical abilities she never knew existed. But that isn’t all. She turns out to be a witch of considerable power, summons a never-before-seen type of dragon called Grian when her strength is tested by a secret council of witches and wizards, and continues to discover amazing abilities as the adventure progresses.
Allanah is not just struggling with her magical abilities and how to use them to save the world, she is also finding her proverbial feet on a personal level. She has a crush on her classmate Jason, who ends up dating her best friend Victoria, then she discovers feelings for the council’s young general, Cormac. But then there also is Dena, a member of the forest-dwelling Igreefee who have a magic all their own. Like all teenagers, Allanah struggles to deal with her emotions as much as she does with the forces of the outside world that demand she figure out who she is and what kind of person she wants to become.
If you like imaginative stories that are full of witches, wizards, and dragons, if you want to find out more about an unsuspecting teenage girl trying to survive high school only to discover she has magical powers and a role to play in saving the world, and if you’re looking for a fantastical adventure filled with suspense and a touch of first love, then you will probably like this novel as much as I do. It begins with a bang, never lets up, and has a great ending.
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| Format | ebook and print |
| Length | Novel, 180 pages/57379 words |
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| Publication Date | 28-January-2016 |
| Price | $6.99 ebook, $14.99 paperback, $14.99 bundle |
| Buy Link | https://www.harmonyinkpress.com/books/the-sun-dragon-by-annabelle-jay-357-b |
