Review

Summary: Billy Bannister and Bonnie Silver are not ordinary kids. How can they be, when their families are caught up in a epochs-long war involving dragons, demons, and something about King Arthur?

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Notes: Great premise, great character development, great themes. It combines Aurthur legends, dragons, and spiritual truths. The characters are relatable, the settings are authentic, the villains are despisable. What is the problem? The author, in trying to create a believable universe and eternity beyond, bends not only the laws of physics, but the laws of eternity. With cognizant dragons, there are a host of questions that need answered. Do dragons have souls? Can you be fully dragon and fully human? What happens when a dragon dies? Those are just a few. Of course, these must be answered in order to have a believable universe. If this was High Fantasy (aka set in a different world), then the book’s theology wouldn’t get as peculiar. Each book in the series increases in peculiarity. The peculiarities pertain to dragons and Nephilim. My diagnosis: If you can ignore the peculiarities, then it is fantastic.

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Age of main character: fourteen

 

Violence: Very high levels. Death of loved characters. sword fights, sabotage, airplane crashes, demonic possession, some villains get melted/fried by dragon fire

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Romance: Yes. It is clear from the beginning that two Main characters like each other. They don’t have time for any dates, since they are too busy not getting dead.

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Scary themes: Demonic possession and death of loved characters. Also, creepy knights who are trying to kill the main characters.

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Genre: Supernatural/Low Fantasy