book is just wow, wow and wow, What a fantastic tale, beautifully composed and bringing so much to life, letting a girl starting onto her own journey to discover who she is and what she is made up of.
We travel from a city in the desert to the capital of the
realm, We meet water dragons and quite a few unique characters, The main character Silver Batal is sometimes likeable, sometimes not so much, as she discovers the wider world and starts to make her own way.
Apart from an engaging and constantly moving forward storyline, this book also has fantastic representation, Silver is so well embedded into the community where she grew up with her family, her mother and her father, each having their own sphere of influence and their own ideas who Silver should become and yet, Silver has a very specific dream of who she wants to become herself.
When her dream starts to become real, she has to leave the known behind and start the adventure of her own journey,
What makes me swoon even more is the representation of female craftsmanship, of working with fibre and thread and yarn, This is seamlessly woven into the story and I just love it for that,
Add all the rest of it, dragons, adventure, racing and finding friends and your own way, learning about people who mean well and others who maybe don't, and voila, for me this has become a favourite read of this year and I think also an all time favourite.
It is that good. "En résumé, un premier tome qui plonge immédiatement son lecteur dans une aventure palpitante et prenante, Les personnages sont intéressants de par leur tempérament et des liens qui les lient, L'intrigue est originale et l'auteure a très bien su se démarquer avec pourtant un thème que nous voyons de plus en plus en littérature.
Pour ma part, j'ai hâte de découvrir le final !"
sitelink weebly. com/fa This book was everything that I love in a book involving Dragons and so very much more,
Imagine a world where Dragons are creatures of the water and many of them are famous not only for their uniqueness but also for those that have been a part of the Water Dragon Races in which people come to from all over the world.
Silver Batal is a young thirteen year old girl who is expected to take over her Dad's Jeweler business but she doesn't feel that it's her calling and has spent a good chunk of her life dreaming of becoming a Water Dragon racer just like someone that she very much looks up to.
She befriends an elder woman who seems to be just the kind of friend that Silver needs and is the key to Silver possibly having her biggest dream come true.
Silver soon learns that a rare breed of Dragon that was said to have become extinct really isn't and one of them bonds with Silver in a way that will change her life forever whom she names Hiyyan who isn't very old in Dragon years and whose only companionship has been that of Silver's friend and Kirja who is Hiyyan's Mother.
When Kirja is kidnapped by someone who Silver once looked up to, Silver is determined to rescue her and also hopes to take part in the famous Water Dragon Racing.
her cousin Brajon shows up just as Silver is about to leave with Hiyyan and is determined to tag along if only to hopefully keep Silver from being harmed.
Their journey to rescue Kirja will be full of adventure, unexpected twists and danger that will test their determination but also bring them closer, forming a bond and making friends along the way.
Silver will find herself very much tested while searching for Kirja and joining in on the Water Dragon Races which is a dream come true but will also hopefully lead to freeing Kirja before it's too late and her bond with Hiyyan will help her to grow and become a better person.
I enjoyed this book so much, particularly the mention of a variety of Water Dragon breeds which I would love to see drawings of.
It was so much fun to read about such fascinating creatures and I could picture just about all of them with the descriptions,
This is one of my favorite Dragon books that I have read in quite some time and I am eager to some day read a sequel of it.
I highly recommend checking out this book and may you enjoy it as much as I have! Silvers dreams of becoming a legendary water dragon racer come true when she befriends a rare
dragon that can swim and fly.
Thirteenyearold Silver Batal calls the desert home, but her heart belongs to the waters, Although shes
expected to become a jeweler like her father, Silver harbors a secret and forbidden wish to race water
dragons, Destiny comes calling when her friendship with a mysterious old woman leads her to Hiyyan, a
baby dragon that can swim and fly,
Risking everything, Silver, Hiyyan, and her resourceful cousin Brajon set off across the desert to join the
legendary races in the royal city.
But the road to Calidia is filled with danger, and the trio must band
together as they encounter ferocious cave beasts, clever desert foxes, and cutthroat competition.
Set in a vivid, Arabinspired world filled with friendly and fearsome water dragons, K, D. Halbrooks
middlegrade fantasy adventure is perfect for fans of Tui T, Sutherland, Sayantani DasGupta, and Roshani
Chokshi,.un bon premier tome pleins de magie et de dépaysement Entre les divers rebondissements et les révélations, je nai pas vu les pages défiler ! En plus de Silver, nous rencontrons également un panel de personnages secondaires aussi intéressants quattachants qui auront un rôle important à jouer.
Et dans tout cela, noublions pas Hiyyan, le dragon deau de Silver qui est juste trop cool et mignon !
Bref, voilà un récit épique qui ravira autant les adolescents que les adultes ! Pour ma part, je me suis régalée et jattends la suite de pied ferme ! Ma chronique : sitelink com The story: Desertdweller Silver Batal knows she is destined to race water dragons, The only problem: both water, and dragons, are scarce in the desert, When she runs into the mysterious old woman Nebekker, Silver eventually learns of a desert oasis where the dragons hide, and where she meets and forms an instant bond with Hiyyan, a rare Aquerid dragon that can both swim and fly.
But her entrance into the secret world leads a troop of dragon thieves there too, and now Silver and her cousin Brojon must race against time to rescue Hiyyan's mother before Nebekker, separated from her bond dragon, dies.
Their dangerous quest leads them to the big city and, . . the dragon races. Can the untrained Silver race and save the dragons
June Cleaver's ratings: Language G Violence PG Sexual content G Nudity G Substance abuse G Magic amp the occult PG GLBt content G adult themes G overall rating PG best for grades.
Liz's comments: This will appeal to fans of the "Rick Riordan Presents" books, and to those who like Tui Sutherland's "Wings of Fire" novels.
TW: dragon blood
Started strong but dragged in the middle and rushed the ending, Could have been/shorter to keep the pace even,
Great concept and fun dragons, just needed more of them and less of the main character's drama, There could have been such great parallels between Silver and her rocky relationship with her father vs Hiyyan and his kidnapped mother, but both storylines stay seperate and one unresolved.
Also, if I had a dime for each time we are told Silver "nibbled", "bit", or "chewed" her bottom lip I'd be a millionaire.
It got waaaay annoying to read that over and over again, I really liked the beginning and the end, Silver "bonds" super fast with her dragon and is super attached to him before the reader really is invested in the dragon as a character, so that was a bit hard for me to follow.
Though I loved the different types of dragons with different abilities, and the desert setting of Jaspaton at the beginning was really vibrant, And I loved that Silver and her dragon get in a fight at one point, rather than always having this amazing relationshipthat added an interesting dimension.
This should go over well with my patrons who want dragon books, Je suis restée très hermétique à l'histoire et j'ai eu beaucoup de mal à m'y plonger, Je n'ai pas apprécié le personnage de Silver que j'ai trouvé assez ennuyeuse et énervante et ce, dès les premières pages, Le seul personnage que j'ai réellement apprécié est Ferdi à mon grand désarroi, on le découvre assez tard dans le roman,
J'ai trouvé l'univers intéressant mais pas assez exploité à mon goût : on nous parle de dragons et on nous en donne à voir si peu au final.
Il y a différentes espèces mais pas assez de descriptions ou de détails, Je ne m'attendais pas à un catalogue non plus ou a autant de détails que dans Une histoire naturelle des dragons de Marie Brennan, On reste sur un roman jeunesse, mais j'en attendais un peu plus, Peutêtre que ces détails se trouvent dans les parties que j'ai "sauté" au cours de ma lecture,
J'ai trouvé l'écriture assez lourde avec beaucoup de longueurs notamment au début, J'ai lu une grosse partie en diagonale mais la fin relève le niveau même si la partie course est bien rapide, Malheureusement, même si la fin est intéressante, elle ne modifiera pas grandement ma note,
Je ne lirai probablement pas la suite, Ce premier tome est très introductif et probablement beaucoup trop pour moi et il mérite la moyenne :,/. Dommage parce que j'étais vraiment très emballée par cette histoire, Un roman juste magique ! Et très addictif, Jai aimé suivre Silver et son cousin dans leur folle aventure, Le caractère de la jeune fille et sa relation avec son cousin mont rappelée avec plaisir Oksa Pollock et Gus Bellanger, deux héros qui ont bercé mon adolescence et que jaime toujours autant.
Les actions et les bouleversements se succèdent, ne laissant que peu de temps au lecteur pour reprendre son souffle : on est complètement captivé par lhistoire et on a limpression daccompagner physiquement les personnages dans leur quête.
Dailleurs, jadorerai avoir moi aussi la chance de tisser un lien avec un dragon, Je dois avouer être un peu jalouse de Silver sur ce pointlà
Les personnages sont très attachants et super réalistes, . . les scènes de course, également! Loin de paraître superficiels, ces moments de pure magie nous entraînent et paraissent tout à fait naturels, réalistes.
Lauteur a très bien réussi son coup !
Jai hâte de découvrir la suite !,
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