Kingdom of Dragons: An Epic Dragon Rider Fantasy Novel

by Jed Herne

A spy infiltrates a dragon rider academy to destroy it from within — but a forbidden romance will force him to choose between his loyalty and his heart.

Zora has longed for justice ever since a Sunwarden killed her parents. When she rescues a dragon egg during a mission with her fellow rangers, she might finally get her chance.

After dragons murdered Rovan’s best friend, he swore to destroy them all. Apprenticing himself to a Sunwarden, he steals an egg and enters the floating city of the dragon riders. His to tear it apart from the inside.

But as Zora and Rovan train their dragons, master new magic, and grow closer together, they will doubt everything they once knew.

When the chance comes to take their revenge, how will they deal with the weight of their past?

Kingdom of Dragons is the start of an epic fantasy series about warring nations, ancient magic, and the tangled dance between duty and desire.

Genres: Fantasy, Dragons

726 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 9, 2025

About the author

Jed Herne is a fantasy author from Perth, Western Australia. His books include Fires of the Dead , which readers say is "the perfect read for someone looking to be quickly immersed in a magic system unlike anything else," and Across the Broken Stars , described as "an epic fantasy that has a unique setting," and The Thunder Heist - an epic pirate fantasy tale, which forms the first book in the Twisted Seas series.

His short stories have been published in The Arcanist, Scarlet Lead Review, Flintlock, and more. He is currently developing an interactive fiction game for Choice of Games.

Outside of writing, he hosts the Wizards, Warriors, & Words fantasy writing advice podcast with Rob J. Hayes, Dyrk Ashton, and Michael R. Fletcher. He also hosts The Novel Analyst Podcast, where he deconstructs his favourite books to help listeners improve their writing. And because that isn't already enough podcasting, he also hosts the Half-Baked Stories podcast, an improv storytelling show where writers are locked in a room and given half an hour to combine three random ideas into a single story.

He loves hearing from fans, and you can email him at: jed.herne1 [at] gmail.com . He does his best to read and reply to every message.

Reviews

[Dee_Dee · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars: I really liked it.

The world building feels natural: no extremely long winded explanations, thank goodness for that.

The main characters are fun, stubborn but likeable. Though because you spent more time with Zora and Rovan; I didn’t really get a bond with the others.

Story is compelling and it kept me interested. The epilogue though gave me pause, and I wondered how I should feel about that.

I do kinda hope that there’s going to be a part 2, because I really want to know how it all ends/comes together.

[John Robertson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super fun and enjoyable read! I backed the kickstarter and had high expectations! Kingdom of Dragons met them all the way! I liked both POV’s, the action was the great, the relationship building was thoughtful. And the world was super cool. Could definitely be a stand alone but hopefully the series to continue!

[Austin · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a long-time viewer of Mr. Herne’s YouTube channel and a reader of his books, I can confidently say this is easily his best work yet. This was just the book I needed as a refreshing break from the behemoth that is the unabridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo. Jed Herne is living proof that YouTubers CAN write good books, and while I have my critiques, this was an overall solid start to (what‘s planned to be) a trilogy that I will be following.


With that said, I’d like to go through each category of this story and give my honest reviews on each of them.

[Spoiler Warning]



Let’s start with,

Pacing:

For a 600-something-page book, this was a shockingly fast-paced read. No chapter feels like it goes on longer than it should and any chapter that feels like added fat still serves a purpose in some way for the characters or plot. Just like what chapters are supposed to do. There was even a part where I got through a hundred or so pages over the course of a weekend, which doesn't normally happen to me.

So, while this is his longest book by a longshot, it reads just as fast as his others. You won’t be reading this and going, “This is dragged out too much.”



Plot:

Honestly, I don’t have much to add on the plot. The synopsis does its job of summarizing what happens, and while there are definitely larger aspects and subplots, it’s a mostly straightforward premise and execution. Absolutely nothing wrong with that by any means, that’s just stating my thoughts.

If you read the premise on the back cover, then you’re made aware of what you’re getting into. Some authors will leave plots vague in their summaries while others will tell you what’s gonna happen and Herne is part of that latter category.

The plot itself is great. There are definite twists you won’t see coming and will shock you when they happen—Jed is very good at that.

Bottom line, if the synopsis piques your interest, you’re bound to like it.



Characters:

The two main protagonists are likable in their own ways and you get more attached to them as the story goes on.

Zora was my favorite of the two. She’s fun, driven, and strong-willed while also having flaws that imperfect her. Plus, she delivered my favorite like in the book.

Vaylith: “You don’t know what you’re doing.”

Zora: “We’ll take our chances.”

That one got a physical reaction out of me.

Rovan was compelling as well and served as a great vessel to display how the magic works. I just liked Zora more.


I enjoyed some of the standout side characters while others I thought could have used a bit more fleshing out.

One of them died at the end, but since I wasn’t that connected to her, I wasn’t that affected by it.

Another one, Milorad, had a mini-arc (or at least a start to a full arc) about discovering his family owns slaves and wanting to free them, and I couldn’t buy that as much as I wanted to. I liked his blossoming relationship with the Edi, though. That was cute and made me smile.

Audlan was chill. I liked him and his antics. Nothing more to say there. Could I have gone this entire review without mentioning my interest in Audlan? Yes. Did I go out of my way to express my interest in him? Also yes.

I also felt like the main villain, Eredan, wasn’t as imposing as he could have been at times.

Overall, the characters are good. Their chemistry flows smoothly. If you can overlook those few critiques I mentioned, you’ll have a good time.



Magic and Worldbuilding:

My biggest critique of this book is that I wish we could have seen more of the Sunwarden magic. I watched Jed’s videos where he describes what the Sunwardens can do, and when I didn’t see all of those powers in this book, I was the slightest bit disappointed.

I will say, going to the moon made up for that in spades.

Plus, I loved the lore and worldbuilding in Rovan’s storyline. Especially in his intro. The amulets that show lore flashbacks was an amazing concept, Alegium was great, the dragons…

I didn't like them all that much. I fear that should be a turn-off for a book with the word “Dragons” in the title, but that’s just my opinion. I wasn’t endeared by them the way dragon companions typically endear me. I have nothing against them, they just didn’t strike the right cord with me.

Overall, I enjoyed learning about this world Jed’s created and it does make me want to learn more.



And, lastly, some final critiques:

There are some spelling errors in the beginning 1/3 of the book. That irked me quite a bit. Mistakes happen, but you would think spellcheck would catch those kinds of things.

You may roll your eyes, but I felt like there could have been more descriptions of environments or inner thoughts to get a better sense of things.

I wish Zora discovering Rovan’s identity was a bit longer with more emotional thought processes so the knife could have twisted more. I’m a sadist in that way.


This next one is more of a personal thing:

I don't mind the classic “Two main characters get together” trope, but I hate it when Main Character A is in a great relationship with Side Character A and yet the story ends with Main Character A leaving them for Main Character B because expectation demanded it. Two hundred pages in and I was weeping for Mudson. And then I was weeping for him again towards the end of the book when Rovan made his life worse by framing him for freaking murder.

Plus, I felt like Zora fell for Rovan a little too fast after just leaving her boyfriend. If Mudson was more of a toxic partner towards Zora, I would believe it more, but they were literally having consensual boat sex a couple chapters before breaking up; they seemed perfectly healthy.

60% of the missing star from my rating is because Jed Herne made me advocate for toxic boyfriends.

That said, Zora and Rovan’s dynamic grew on me after a while. Still felt bad for my boy Mudson, but I’ll respect the author’s choice.


And this last one is a bit long, but I just wanna mention it:

Early 2023, Herne posted the first 50 or so pages of the first draft showcasing Zora and Rovan’s origin stories. I read it, and the reveal that Eredan killed Zora’s parents was much more surprising and I was disappointed to learn those flashbacks were cut and even more disappointed with how it was handled with much less spectacle. I understand the beta readers said the origins were boring, but I personally would have liked that reveal to have stuck.

That’s just me.



In summary: I had a good time with this book.

Jed Herne is the kind of writing Youtuber who practices what he preaches and that’s evident here. While I wouldn’t say it’s something groundbreaking, it is something that you will read cover-to-cover, put down when finished, and think “That was good.”

You won’t be dissappointed.

[Dom · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one started out well but I wasn't overly enamoured by the academy business. It was always going to be a possibility based on the synopsis, I guess, but it turned out that a dragon-rider school would form the setting for the majority of the book. There was more to the story than just the training side of things, thankfully, but some of what we did get just didn't make sense to me. At one point our cadets were notified that the Broken Fang (the big bad - or one of them, I suppose) have taken over an entire town, and it's the biggest move they've made, and we were going to send out our very best dragon riders to combat them... but why don't we let a bunch of cadets have a crack at it first? It was just too much.

The story is told through the POVs of two characters, but when you get fifty chapters (approx. 65%) of the way through, it suddenly opens up to give short (2-3 page) POV chapters from the other dragon-rider cadets, plus a one-off POV chapter from an unknown who is never seen again. Any flow I'd managed to get from following Zora and Rovan was completely derailed.

Overall, I found the writing free-flowing and easily accessible, the worldbuilding decent and some of the characters likewise, but some of the story elements just didn't really work for me.

[Henry · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had a really good time reading this book. The world building was fun to learn about and the characters were interesting to me. I enjoyed the complications that arose from their differing POVs. I was a little bummed that the end came abruptly for me. I don’t know if that is because I was caught up in the story and eager to read more or if the resolution was insufficient. Granted, I know Jed plans on this being the start of a series, so I suppose I will have to be patient.

[Caden Morton · Rating 1 out of 5]

I DNF after the first five chapters. The main male character just kept contradicting himself with his action. Then what I read felt like fanfiction for characters and a word I did not know.

[Akemichan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Questo è il secondo libro dell'autore che leggo. Il primo non mi aveva del tutto convinto, ma la trama di questo sembrava davvero molto interessante e poi ci sta che gli autori migliorino con il tempo, e infatti devo dire che trovo che a livello di idee e di stile ci sia stato un enorme miglioramento. Parte è anche il fatto che stia sviluppando una saga molto più ampia della precedente.

Devo dire di aver apprezzato particolarmente l'idea alla base, sia nella questione dei due POV in contrapposizione (friends to lovers to enemy? Sign me up!) che dello scontro fra i due regni. E poi ci sono i draghi, insomma, a chi non piaccioni i draghi? Questo aspetto non è particolarmente originale (su molte cose mi ha ricordato Eragorn, e ho detto tutto) mentre lo è molto di più la parte riguardante i Sunwarden di cui avrei voluto vedere di più.

Tuttavia, l'autore è un insegnante di narratologia, è uno che fa corsi e si fa pagare per questi, per cui è ovvio che con una persona simile io sia più severa che con altri, perché mi aspetto che almeno eviti gli errori e le problematiche di cui parla nei suoi video. E invece no, per cui nonostante io l'abbia trovata una lettura buona/discreta, ci sono diverse cose su cui non ho potuto sorvolare.

Quelle che mi hanno dato più fastidio sono due.

La prima è il fatto che in questa storia ci sia troppo. La storia di Zora e la storia di Rovan potevano essere due libri distinti e avrebbero avuto abbastanza materiale per funzionare da soli (anzi, avrebbero ciascuna permesso un diverso tipo di approfondimento), messa assieme funziona ma su alcune cose finisce per essere pesante. Se alcune cose non sono inerenti alla trama di questo libro ma inerenti a quella futura e mi vanno bene anche se appesantiscono la trama, ci sono determinati aspetti che potevano e dovevano essere tagliati o, nel caso, impostati in una maniera diversa.
Hai fatto un video sul problema dei "glich tematici" dei personaggi secondati e mi piazzi a casaccio POV di personaggi secondari che nulla apportano alla trama? Dai!

La seconda è legata al POV dei due protagonisti, soprattutto perché l'autore li prende sempre a esempio come modalità di sviluppare la narrativa differenziandola con il carattere dei personaggi. E qui, in questo libro, non avviene. Mentre Zora l'ho trovata davvero ottima, Rovan per me non ha alcun senso. Nonostante tutta la sua storia, le sue differenze di interpretazione del mondo che lo circonda sono basiche e per nulla attinenti e finiscono per renderlo simile a Zora quando assolutamente non dovrebbe. Uno che odia i draghi e ha il trauma perché hanno distrutto la sua città e ucciso il suo migliore amico dovrebbe avere una reazione completamente diversa nel stabilire un legame con un drago, invece lui si comporta esattamente come Zora, che però è giustificata. Il primo incontro, il primo volo, il rapporto con i draghi, i due sono identici!
C'è una particolare situazione nel libro in cui i due vivono un evento identico, solo che per la trama che hanno avrebbero dovuto comportarsi in modo diverso. Di nuovo, Zora ha senso, Rovan no. Solo che, per come doveva andare avanti la trama, Rovan non poteva fare la cosa logica per la sua caratterizzazione, quindi alla fine si comporta uguale con un piccolo aiutino di trama per non farla sembrare così. E non funziona.
Non basta descrivere in due modi diversi la stessa cosa per caratterizzare un personaggio, deve avere senso inizialmente che entrambi ci facciano caso. E Rovan, da questo punto di vista, è proprio pessimo.

Ce ne sono molte altre, di problematiche narrative, ma queste sono proprio le peggiori. Poi c'è un ultimo aspetto, interamente soggettivo, che è che alla fine tutto questo non si riduce che a una storia d'amore dei protagonisti, perché quella è la loro crescita. Si poteva fare, con il materiale di partenza, molto di più. Ma dato che sono debole per le lovers to enemies, se questo è l'aspetto spero di avere soddisfazione maggiore nei prossimi volumi.

[Thomas · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF at 9%

0.5/5 stars
I'm done with Jed Herne for good.

I followed him for a while on YouTube and actually liked what he had to say. But then I read his books. Fires of the Dead and Across the Broken Stars were huge letdowns coming from a guy whose entire brand is 'let me tell you how to write better'. The Thunder Heist was a good read and it gave me hope for Kingdom of Dragons, especially as I'm a nut for dragon rider fantasy. But, five chapters in and I couldn't get past the amateurish writing, the desperate attempts to set up coming storylines, and the inauthentic and artifical moments that doom what might otherwise have been interesting characters. In the end, I just wasn't enjoying this book.

Five chapters in and I'm still unclear what Kingdom of Dragons's lore is. There are dragon riders, but none of them appear. I wasn't even sure until Chapter 3 which of the two kingdoms was the dragon rider one, or if there was even a distinction at all. The riders apparently have an enemy in the form of the Sunwardens, but yet again it isn't clear why, or even what the Sunwardens are. In the fifth chapter, it gets worse: a Moon warden is introdued to explain a different way for Rovan to travel somewhere. But the original way hasn't even been explained yet!!! Don't use contrast until you've introduced something first! The Moonwardens could have been the regular travel system instead, one Rovan just hadn't used yet. It's all the more frustrating because I just watched the first episode of Fallout and I was blown away by how efficiently worldbuilding and character were made to coexist. In a single episode out of eight, I understood who the Vault Dwellers, the Brotherhood of Steel and the surface dwelling retro-western 'coyboys' were through the eyes of three different main characters from each of those settings. Kingdom of Dragons has none of that and actually comes out worse from the contrast.

Speaking of characters, did they rescue this subpar worldbuilding from itself? Not in the slightest. I did like Zora when she was first introduced, as she, her boyfriend and her mentor are hunting a rebel organisation. Her banter with Mudson was sweet and her training as a ranger, while a little expositiory, worked. Then, barely introduced to her, we switch to the next main character. Rovan's motivations aren't well established by the end of his chapter which, to top it off, is instead dominated by an action sequence. Action at the best of times is hard for me, but when I don't care about the character, you lose me completely. While we do get to learn his motives later on, the damage had been done by then and I couldn't bring myself to care. It gets worse as we go back to Zora. Rather than following through on the village raid, Zora is still just watching the Broken Fang members, only alone this time so without the benefit of dialogue. Which means....... narrative exposition! And not even the good kind. And a good mystery about who the seventh Broken Fang member would have been a perfect place to showcase the conflict between the Elatian dragon riders and the Ducrene Sunwardens. Instead, the seventh member is an arlor! What is an arlor? Even now, after that character has disappeared from the story, I still couldn't tell you. Couldn't the arlor have been a Sunwarden? No, because why explain an important piece of lore when you can introduce another one, and explain neither? In the end, the disjointed narrative of two POVS with short chapters, no doubt meant to be dynamic, kills off the story's momentum without even giving us a complete picture of this new world.

But that's hardly the worst thing about Kingdom of Dragons. Like I said, Herne makes money telling people how to be better writers. And this is the best he can do:

Zora raged against him, but he held her firm. She glared up at him. Her mother needed help. She needed help because she was still alive. She had to be. Even if she was lying on the rocks in a tangle of limbs, with two burned holes of scorched flesh swirling smoke above her unmoving body.

What an atrocious paragraph. I known I'm supposed to feel Zora's pain and despair at losing her mother, but I feel nothing. At all. Except angry that I used to listen to this guy's advice when this is the kind of crap he publishes. First of all, a dramatic, emotional sequence when we're supposed to identify with a person's pain shouldn't have overly poetic descriptions like the 'unmoving body' and the 'swirling smoke', or with excessive description like 'a tangle of limbs' and too many adjectives for the burning holes in her mother's flesh. And that's before I get to 'she glared up at him'. If I'm fighting to reach my mother who has just been attacked, I don't have time to pause just to look up at my father, and just 'glare' at him. Everything about this paragraph is wrong.

And that's without mentioning the 'automatic backstory' and the 'cue the flashback' moments.

Herne crafted what, in another world, is a perfect moment for Rovan when he breaks into a meeting of the ruling Sunwardens to beg for another chance. The Sunwardens rightly don't trust the flunkie who has just broken into their meeting and it's only when their emperor, who was already mentioned as having a soft spot for Rovan, chimes in to say 'he saved my life' that we know the Sunwardens should trust Rovan. It was a perfect moment. But, rather than let it stand...: automatic backstory. I only stopped reading about a week ago: I vividly remember the emperor saying Rovan had saved his life; I remember nothing about how he saved his life. It's the same scale of narrative murder as C-3P0 willingly sacrificing his memories in The Rise of Skywalker, only to conveniently get them back for no reason at all an hour later.

It's the same principle for the 'cue the flashback' sequence. After 2 whole chapters of buildup, with far more questions than answers, I was ready for Zora to finally raid the village. And she does. Until, a little girl sees her father killed and Zora has a memory.

Cue the flashback.

Everything else, I could have lived with, but this? This is the moment when the music died. Flashbacks are an excellent writer's tool... when used well (for good examples, read Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive), but they are also a default setting leading to that most dangerous of pitfalls: backstory. As Stephen King wrote in On Writing, there's 'back' in backstory, and flashbacks shove it to the front. I WANTED THE VILLAGE BATTLE!!!! I wanted to know what an alnor was, or that weird raven that worked for it, and more Zora and Mudson because they were cute together, or Withers being a strict mentor again. I wanted a Sunwarden to be revealed as the mysterious seventh member trying to steal a dragon egg that could have tied into Rovan's arc I. DID. NOT. WANT. A. FLASHBACK!!!!!!!!!! If you want to use backstory, do what Rowling does: make them flashbacks that are being witnessed by a character in the story, not just a mental rewind. Do what Martin does where it's a story told by one character to another (Jaime Lannister's Kingslayer confession is a masterpiece of backstory AND character development) instead of a flashback (I can't believe I just defended A Song of Ice and Fire, but even Martin writes leaps and bounds better than Herne does).

Ok, now that I've gotten all that off my chest, I can move on. I gave Jed Herne my time for four stories. I don't care what he tries to do or what he has to say about writing anymore. Maybe he is a better editor and trainer than he is a writer. If that's the case, then good for him. I just don't get the feeling he's the kind of writer who would write just for the joy of telling a story. Instead, whenever I read his book, I felt like he was trying to synthesize all his writing tools and tricks into books, certain the tricks would be successful because they had worked for others.

What I read was a book I abandonned less than a hundred pages in.

[Sidney Brill · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was really excited to read this book. Everything this book promoted sounded so interesting. Dragons, a dragon riding school, spies, etc. I couldn’t wait to see how the story would turn out. And then I read the book, and I walked away disappointed and frustrated.

The overall story is about a 3 star story. There were parts that were intriguing and fun, but other parts of the story I found to be boring and slow. I didn’t really get to learn much about Alegium, the dragon riding school in the sky. I wished we got to see more of the classes and what skills are needed to become a full fledge dragon rider. It felt like a lot of things were just told to me, but I never got to see it (for example, we never get to see a full fledge dragon rider in action. Some of the riders were mentioned as teachers, but we the reader never get to meet them or hear what they teach. It was hard to see what the cadets were working towards). A lot of cool aspects to the story were explained to you, and as a reader, I didn’t get to experience this world for myself.

The reason I gave this book a 2 star rating is because the ending of the book is a huge let down. A lot of things don’t make sense, especially the choice of one of the main characters in the epilogue (one of the most confusing, frustrating things I’ve read in a while). Despite the book’s tendency to feel slow and mundane, I was really hoping for an exciting ending (Rovan’s story arc in particular. His story was fun to read). Sadly, the ending felt rushed and I didn’t find the resolutions satisfying. I think if more aspects of the story were built up or presented better the ending would have been more understandable.

Overall, I walked away from this book frustrated. An exciting premise that wasn’t executed in way to give this authors amazing ideas justice. I think if there had been more interactive world building, more engaging scenes and story transitions, and a better balance of conflicts (so much inner conflict, not much outside conflict), this book would have been great.

Edit: Milorad and Edi were by far the best characters in this book!

[Tully · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the kind of book that serves as a great introduction to fantasy, similar to Eregon. It's not as large as Sanderson or Jordan, but it is far from offensive. I am about to list many cons, but foundationally this book is not bad, but not above critique. Ultimately Herne showed that he could complete a large book, which is a remarkable feat in it's own rite. I will try to limit any spoilers, but names will be used.

I think the core problem I had with the book was it's mostly lack of subtext. While it can be a strength to ensure that the reader understands the messages you are trying to convey, Herne glues his hand to yours and repetitively hammers points. Within the first hundred and fifty pages it is not egregious as we are learning about a new world and characters, but it morphs from explanatory to grating roughly a third through the book. I think Herne should trust that the reader can read and think about the text. If the goal is to "show, not tell," Herne practices "show and tell."

Zora and Rovan are good leads, and they present thought out character backstories and traits. The other humans are generally so far in the background it's frustrating. Of all of these Edi is a tragedy. She, like the leads, has a thick backstory that would lead to an interesting character with room for development. When she gets her big scene, the surprised is not shocking, but unearned as the primary development she had been given was that of being, "the outsider girl." Honestly her character and arc could have been it's own story. Part of this seems intended to expand the story beyond only Zora and Rovan's stories, establishing a larger world. The effect comes off as writing the high point of a story, but not doing the work to earn it's effect. This extends to every other character in the book. This is not a negative for every character (Strike and Withers both benefit as they do not have central character arc roles within the story), but the other cadets could have used a bit more care.

The dragons were remarkably generic "conscious" characters. Outside of knowing which dragon is speaking due to the point of view character, they all seemed to have the same voice. Seeing as we see these dragons from their birth, I wish they were each more of a character than a Jiminy Cricket.

All things considered I enjoyed the book. As a "first fantasy" book it does it's job, but beyond that it's a bit lacking for experienced readers.

[Markus · Rating 5 out of 5]

16/06/2024
I found this book through Jed Herne's YouTube channel and based on the content he had published wanted to give this book a try. I was not sure what to expect, but I knew through the videos that the author seemed to have great grasp on how to construct a story. I was not disappointed.

Throughout reading the book I recognized many of the tips, tricks, beats and methods the author had both encouraged and discouraged in his videos. Since it was built on such a solid foundation, it was no wonder it was a homerun!

There is a lot I would like to say about this book, but for the sake of brevity I will keep it to a few highlights:
I loved the main characters and how they interacted with each other. Seeing how they viewed each other, and the tension between them kept "the stakes" always in mind in most of the book. There were definitely much character development as well, and I loved especially how Rovan struggled throughout the book and how the challenges he faced impacted him. The relations to the dragons were also well-handled, and they felt like they grew with the characters (quite literally).
The supporting cast were also well-written and felt like they were real characters that might open up interesting story lines in the future. Plotwise I was at the edge of my seat for most of the book, as there was always something going on. Just when you thought the book might have a lull and let you catch your breath a new problem was presented.
There were a few things I would have liked a bit further expanded, and some slight gripes I had with the story, but these are easily overlooked in light of the gripping pace and scope of the story. When I finished the last chapter today I could honestly say that I would have continued with the second installment right away, if it was available (at the time of writing).
This book was a treat and looking forward to follow the author's journey both on YouTube and as an author.
Strong 4.5/5

[Isabelle Botha · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have been watching Jed’s videos for a while now. They have helped me a lot.
This book had me hooked. I was dying to know what was going to happen next. The climax, and actually the whole story, was beautifully written. One of my five star reads.

[Benjamin Davidson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jed herne crafted a wonderful world of magic , adventure, dragons, a school, and enemy that is superbly written. He is a master a words and a inspiration.