The Last of the Firedrakes (The Avalonia Chronicles, #1)

by Farah Oomerbhoy

[Danielle Ackley-McPhail]

I wanted to enjoy this book and for the most part the story was fairly good, but too much of the tension depended on the main character defiantly doing the wrong thing and then angsting over whether or not she did the wrong thing. At the beginning of the book this was kind of understandable and forgivable with Aurora having been torn from her world and having to deal with a complete new one she doesn't understand, but by the end of the book this just made her unsympathetic as repeatedly she runs headlong into trouble regardless of the consequences to herself and others, all the while justifying it in her head.

Too many points of the story were run into the ground with constant repetition in the narrative, with the same details repeating over and over again, as if we might have forgotten along the way...again.

That having been said, I really enjoyed the magic system and the descriptions of the world, though way too many times Aurora was sharing details about her surroundings she really should not have known.

This author has some serious potential, but she also needs a serious developmental editor to help her achieve it.