Character Profile
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Summary
A fantasy adventure in an alternate universe where dragons are kidnapping humans for slave labor.
Stats
Genre: Teen (13-16 years) high fantasy
Series length: Four books, plus second trilogy following the protagonist's older brother (The Tales of Starlight).
Violence: Moderate fantasy violence
Magic/Supernatural: Strong supernatural
Romance: Minimal to moderate romance
Christian/spiritual element: Allegorical Christian content
Recommendation: Excellent for boys or girls who enjoy medieval fantasy and high adventure
You might like this book if you liked...
The Lord of the Rings, Eragon, or books by Chuck Black.
Series length: Four books, plus second trilogy following the protagonist's older brother (The Tales of Starlight).
Violence: Moderate fantasy violence
Magic/Supernatural: Strong supernatural
Romance: Minimal to moderate romance
Christian/spiritual element: Allegorical Christian content
Recommendation: Excellent for boys or girls who enjoy medieval fantasy and high adventure
You might like this book if you liked...
The Lord of the Rings, Eragon, or books by Chuck Black.
Opening Lines:
Blood match. The words echoes in Jason's mind as he stood at his corner of the tourney ring and gripped the hilt of his sword. Like a beating drum, the announcer must have repeated that phrase a hundred times, as if the potential for bloodletting might whip the crowd into a frenzy. Jason scanned the two-hundred-plus onlookers. Seated in the surrounding grassy amphitheater during the warmth of midday, they offered no cheers, no applause, just a low buzz signaling a rising anticipation. Jason Masters, a peasant boy, had advanced to the finals and faced the obvious favorite, Randall Prescott, son of the governor of all Mesolantrum. And with the final round came new weapons and new rules, designed to pose a fresh challenge to a young warrior's expertise and courage. |
Starlighter (Dragons of Starlight, Book 1)
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Cursed by blindness, Zena shuffled on her knees--reaching, groping--a beggar stretching out empty hands into the hated void. Oh yes, it was blindness, but not the indiscriminate shackling of innocent eyes by a careless creator. Hers was a wretched, calculated blindness inflicted long ago by the accursed Starlighter, the selfsame Cassabrie who had delayed the arrival of the prophesied hatchling . . . until now. |
Warrior (Dragons of Starlight, Book 2)
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Koren stood at the brink of a precipice and stared into the darkness below. Only inches in front of her black boots, a stairway descended sharply into the seemingly endless void. The rocky steps appeared to be hundreds of years old--narrow, crumbling, without rails or even walls--the bare, sculpted stone jutting downward into the chasm before being swallowed by the eerie darkness. |
Diviner (Dragons of Starlight, Book 3)
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Jason steadied himself on the stone-movers' raft and scanned the sky from horizon to horizon. Still within the confines of the Southlands, he dipped his steering pole into the river as quietly as possible. Elyssa had said dragons lurked in the area, and her Diviner's gift of detecting a presence in the air or hidden in the shadows seemed as sharp as ever. At least one fire-breather was out there . . . somewhere. |
Liberator (Dragons of Starlight, Book 4)
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