The Last Namsara follows Asha who is the fiercesome, feared Iskari of her city. Following a tramatic event in her youth, Asha has vowed to rid the land of dragons and the magic of the old stories connected to them. When her father, the Kimg gives her a quest to hunt down the First Dragon which could mean the end of magic for good, Asha eagerly takes it as it also means an escape from an arranged marriage that is looming over her. But the quest delivers truth to Asha that end ups in her rediscovering who she really is, and the magic & destiny within her.

Meh...

This book could have been really great but I'm not sure if it really got there. I feel like we were at about 60% through the whole book and the author just wasn't able to deliver enough story and magic and dragons for the full 100%. I actually found myself a little bit bored in places and this took longer to read then it should have and when you have a main focus of dragons, that shouldn't happen.

If I was to describe this book in movies it would Gladiator meets How to Train Your Dragon with a bit of Dragonheart thrown into the mix.

I needed more dragons and more dragon-rider bonding in this one, and I didn't get even half of what I wanted. It was strange that Asha had Shadow delivered to her but then he seemed to bond with Torwin instead but there didn't seem to be anything special about the dragon-rider experience other than who rode the dragons the most? There was very little communication between dragons and riders, and no training or anything. I would have loved a training montage.

Because Eragon is such a strong dragon book, it doesn't have to be said that other dragon books that have any kind of bond need to be on the scale of Eragon & Saphira! And this wasn't even close (though Kozu gave me Smaug vibes from The Hobbit).

I did find it very difficult to read about all the dragon killing, particularly at the start of this book as it's something I just feel sensitive to and make me really sad.

There's major insta-love in this book between Asha and Torwin who is a slave (and you know he is a slave because Asha calls him nothing but slave for 75% of the book). There was no real reason (beside some imprint thing explained near the end) for this love because Asha did very little to deserve any affection from Torwin as she treated him horrible and didn't really seem to have strong opinions on the fact her father kept slaves in the first place.

I liked Asha's journey of self-discovery, as well as the old stories interspersed throughout the book but the story definitely missed out on some additional dragon magic, and some world building as well. I would recommend the book for anyone looking for some nice YA but it's not the best one out there either.