
Scales of Ash & Smoke
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Narrated by:
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Emma Faye
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Adam Skousen
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By:
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Emily Schneider
She lived her whole life enslaved to the dragons.
But now she’s one of them.
Seventeen-year-old Kaida, a human, has spent her entire life enslaved to the dragons who slaughtered half the human population 1,000 years ago. She is forced to serve her ruthless master, Eklos, until one deadly summer day when the Prince of Elysia saves her life.
Prince Tarrin steals her away to the royal palace, shocking Kaida when he reveals that she is mutator formarum. He promises her safety, but when they uncover a dangerous conspiracy to rid Elysia of the royal family, she begins to question how safe she truly is. And when desire blooms between Kaida and Tarrin, in the midst of fighting for their lives, she must choose whether to save the very creature she swore to hate, or allow him to perish…
And destroy her own heart.
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2021 Best Indie Book Award Fantasy Winner
“…a masterful work of YA fantasy fiction which contains all the must-have ingredients for a thrilling read, from a compelling central pair of characters to a lavish and atmospheric setting filled with danger and intrigue.” (Readers’ Favorite)
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Now, on to the dragons! Scales of Ash and Smoke described a world with dragons in a way I’ve never read before. As a true lover of Skyrim, where my interest for dragons and magical stories began (apart from when I discovered Tolkien at 12 years old, of course), that is the standard I drift to. This take on how dragons interact with their surroundings was much more involved with the story than in those of Skyrim! (For all you video game nerds out there, you know what I’m talking about. Just give us more dragons please.)
The main character Kaida is a slave girl just trying to get through life pretty much hour by hour without dying by the hands of horrible dragons. A very gut wrenching way to live. She’s hardly aware that life could be different, if at all. Since she’s constantly living in fight or flight mode, she’s got serious issues when she finds herself “rescued” and she’s just not convinced that’s what’s happened to her. For good reason, given her life experience in life this far.
Her interactions with Tarrin in the beginning were frustrating for me at first. Their stubbornness towards the world and each other made me sigh in frustration a number of times lol! But as their story arcs evolved, I got committed and understood their… shall we say, convictions? Which pretty much remained to the end, but how they responded to those convictions grew and changed.
As someone who doesn’t mind skipping through scenes that might make me uncomfortable, this book didn’t have need of that! Which is a relief when sometimes important dialogue in books can be mixed in with scenes that could be uncomfortable (like sex stuff, if that’s bothersome to you). The slow burn in the romance scenes were there! And let’s be real, that’s what we’re here for.
Book two releases on may 24th and I’m anticipating what happens next! Especially after that epilogue, sheesh!
Dragon-human feuds?! I’m in!
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Emily is a master story teller. She brought Kaida and Tarrin and the rest for the characters and setting of Elysia to life for me. This is the first in the ash and smoke series and she does a beautiful job setting everything up giving the characters, the setting, the story line depth that makes you want to keep reading keep turning pages to find out what happens next. her characters all show growth or self destruction and I really like how she set it up for the next book eeek I can't wait ! also I really liked the use of a female narrator and male narrator they did an awesome job narrating and helping me focus to someone else reading to me.
Holy Smokes
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