5.0 out of 5 stars
Seven Awesome Arrogant and Gifted Immortal Dragons!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2016
For 20,000 years, Tesser, the Dragon of Life, has slept beneath the earth. Now, however, he's awake, and walking around in human form. He is arrogant, of course, but he has the right to be: Everything that lives on Earth has Tesser to thank for it's existence, for he created them all. (There are also six other dragons, each with their own special gifts, and each is also necessary to the health and well being of the planet. And each, I suspect, will get their own book!)
One of them is dear to Tesser, his sister, Kowula (sp?) the Dragon of Magic. He hasn't been able to communicate with her since his return, and he is worried. Unknown to him, she is being hidden by the interference of a (rather inventive) other-worldly evil. Because of her absence, magic has all but disappeared from the world, taking all of the magical creatures with it. But when the magic comes back, creatures that were once thought to be only a myth, begin to reappear, causing chaos among the mundane humans as they struggle to understand the new world order.
Pretty great, right? Ultimately, this story is fun, original, a little romantic (a VERY little). (It's also not about sex despite other reviews.) And while there is a good bit of violence, it is somewhat muted and cartoony (mainly as a result of it's bizarre origins). In fact, the violence often made me laugh, in that way dark humor with a side of horror often does. The dragons are innocent and ancient at the same time, and their views on what the humans have done to the world they created, IS funny -- or at least, it would be -- if it wasn't also so sadly true.
BUT -- I will admit that I almost returned this book after the first few chapters, because of some poor attempts at crude male oriented humor. What passes for humor made me think that this might be a book geared toward teenage boys of a certain age, and therefore not for me.
Fortunately, I was already completely intrigued by the thoughts and emotions of Tesser the Dragon, and soon found that the incidents of crudeness become less obnoxious and easier to ignore, and fewer besides. I was able to move past them to get to the good stuff, because there is some very good writing here, and a very good story to tell. I loved it!
Highly Recommended to fantasy lovers -- (but please note that the violence and crude language may not make it appropriate for all ages.)
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