The Draconis Memoria: The Waking Fire (Series #1) (Paperback)

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This was the first doorstopper Fantasy I've read in a good long while. And it was a good pick to re-introduce myself to the genre as well. It was action-packed from start to finish. It also benefitted from having interesting and engaging main characters, all of whose stories were fun to read. One...

from Karlstar

Q whole lot happens in this book, so much so that it felt like a complete novel, but it isn't. Dragon blood is the key to magic in this world, but dragons are becoming harder and harder to find. An expedition is put together to go deep into the continent to find the legendary white dragon - the u...

from kgodey

Anthony Ryan has been on my wishlist for a long time, so I was excited to receive a copy of THE WAKING FIRE from Ace recently. I've been reading a lot of books about dragons recently (WITHIN THE SANCTUARY OF WINGS by Marie Brennan, and THE SUMMER DRAGON by Todd Lockwood), so I wasn't sure I wante...

from epweil

Welcome to a fantastic new world of dragons and blood blessed the few people who can drink the blood of the drakes and use it's various properties to preform fantastic feats. As empires clash and war rages an unregistered blood blessed and his companions began a frantic search for the white a dra...

from Strider66

Pros: great characters, brilliant world-building, variety of action Cons: lots of close shaves Claydon Torcreek is a thief who gets roped into being the blue-trance communicator for the Longrifle Independent Contractor Company. The Company's mission is to find the fabled white dragon, living in t...