OMIGOSH.

This was amazing. Probably my favorite book Tavia Lark has written so far (though I haven’t gotten to that Vampire Delivery service series yet and I am mightily intrigued).

Bellamy and Rakos are great characters. Bellamy is adorable and charming, and Rakos is so sweet and considerate even when he and Bell are almost total strangers to each other. Both of them are kind of dolts, but in ways I found really amusing.

The plot worked a little bit better for me in this one than in book 1, just by way of getting to see more of the world as Bell and Rakos travel through Draskora, and learning more about the world building - scalestone and dragons and whatnot.

All in all, this was a really fun, fantasy read and I had a great time with it. Super looking forward to book 3 - I just really love characters who pine for people they’re not supposed to want. (Which, actually, that’s kind of been the case in books 1 and 2 as well, lol.)

Thanks to Tavia Lark for a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.