July 22, 2013

DragonSpell by Donita Paul

One Dragon Egg Holds the Key to the Future.

Once a slave, Kale is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. Yet this young girl has much to learn about the difference between slavery and service.

A Desperate Search Begins…

A small band of Paladin’s servants rescue Kale from danger but turn her from her destination: The Hall, where she was to be trained. Feeling afraid and unprepared, Kale embarks on a perilous quest to find the meech dragon egg stolen by the foul Wizard Risto. First, she and her comrades must find Wizard Fenworth. But their journey is threatened when a key member of the party is captured, leaving the remaining companions to find Fenworth, attempt an impossible rescue, and recover the egg whose true value they have not begun to suspect…

Weaving together memorable characters, daring adventure, and a core of eternal truth, Dragonspell is a finely crafted and welcome addition to the corpus of fantasy fiction.
 
DragonSpell follow the unique and thrilling adventure of a young girl, Kale. Although the writing is a bit dry, the plot line kept me reading this book, for it is a truly remarkable idea.
 
I was surprised by the amount of fantasy concepts introduced in one novel. From magical urges to multiple races, light magic, mind-speaking, and one cannot forget the Dragons. I am, by no matter, a newbie to the fantasy genre, in fact, high fantasy is one of my favorite genres, it's just surprising that so many types of magic were used. I'm still trying to decide whether I like it or not.

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