Type: Fantasy
Release date: September 2012
Story: In a war torn earth, humans
no longer fight each other. A greater threat has woken and humans are fighting
for their lives but when dragons turn into their human form, the war is lost.
Three decades later, humans live in enclaves and everything is governed by the
dragons. Cecily lives with her father and brother in one such enclave. Without really
knowing anything about life before dragons, she is happy to live within their
limitations.
Stifled by life in court, Derek,
heir to the dragon’s throne decides to join the high school within one of the
enclaves. Here he meets Cecily and they are quickly drawn together, filling
both their minds with unanswered questions. What is the queen hiding from Derek
and what is special about Cecily?
The book starts with Cecily; we see
her friends and her everyday life. She is purposely isolated from most people by
her overprotective father and we find out as the story develops why he protects
his children so. What he cannot protect her from, are two dragons that out of
boredom join her school. Derek is immediately drawn to Cecily, there is
something about her that he cannot ignore, something that pulls them both into
trouble. Throughout the story we have snippets or recollections of Todd Burns
which nicely fills in the information that you need in order to fully appreciate
the story. The tone is light and McCabe really hits the voice of the teenagers.
She writes a nice story in which she describes the human way of life and how
the world around them is beginning to crumble. The interwoven relationships
between the dragons and humans keeps you interested and the growing
relationship between Cecil and Derek is written really well.
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