Starlight

The Dragonian #5

by Adrienne Woods

In the Fifth and final part of the Dragonian Series, eighteen-year-old Elena Watkins and her dragon, the Rubicon, need to find the missing ingredients in order to free her father from Etan.

But what could the missing ingredient be?

And will she be willing to sacrifice her life if they don't find it before time runs out?

Genres: Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, Paranormal, Audiobook

671 pages, ebook

First published March 28, 2016

About the author

Adrienne Woods is a USA Today Bestselling author, living in South Africa.

She’s been in love with books all her life and knew at the age of 13 that she is going to be a writer one day.

That dream happened in 2009 and she started to pen her stories down on paper. Firebolt, her debut novel, were released 4 years after that, and she hasn’t stop since.

She has written more than 20 novels and she is still busy writing more.

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Reviews

[Penny Well Reads · Rating 1 out of 5]

I forced myself to finish this book so I would complete the whole series. Now, I wish I had never wasted my time reading this series in the first place.

This book is tedious, full of cliché, tackiness and unnecessary drama. To me, the whole thing, the war, the drama, the plot, the romance, the friendships, all are senseless. The whole book was basically stupid teenage drama, but with grown up characters now. Elena is even more unbearable than in previos books, which is saying a lot. I disliked almost every single though that came out of her. Blake, on the other hand, acts like a pushover the whole book and lets Elena get away with everything, arg!
Honestly, at this point I wonder if the writer knows what a healthy relationship is, and I am not referring exclusively to the romantic ones.

The whole series in general ends up being unoriginal. It is full of ideas from Harry Potter and not in a good way. Harry Potter is epic from the first page to the last, this series has a general feeling of lameness to me. The worst thing is, there are not only similarities with Harry Potter, but also with other YA books, an example would be the game with the flag that is a rip off from Divergent.

I even think I am kind of morally opposed to many things that go on in these books, the way they are explained and exposed. Some examples:

- The whole Kara situation is horrible. In the end it is sold that her purpose of existing was so that Elena could live. So basically it was ok for her to die because it was more important for Elena to live. To make this even better, Kara's own parents, who should be the ones to protect her over anything in the world in my book, agree with that and chose Elena's life over their own daughter's. I find all this tremendously wrong and discriminating. I am quite disgusted by it.

- The beatings to the Rubicon. Really? Where those really necessary? I just think that there might have been other ways to achieve the same objective without having a father beating his son for his and the greater good. So to me, this shows lack of imagination in finding out a better solution without having such a message that could be easily, very badly misunderstood by teenage in a young adult series.

- The hypocrisy and chauvinistic way of how sexual relationships are portrayed. There is a clear difference between what Blake can do, and what his sister Sammy and Elena can do. This discrimination is shown by the parents and by the school. Again, I am very nauseated by this and I consider it a very bad message for teenagers since, IT PERPETUATES GENDER INEQUALITY. I am sick and tired of the enabling of this behaviors, specially coming from women writers nowadays.

- The portrayal of friendships here. The friendships that the girls have between each other as well as with the boys, is without fault repeatedly dishonest. They talk about not keeping secrets and yet in every single book and in several occasions, this people keep secrets from each other and chose to be mad with one another in behalf of another friend. In many cases, this omissions of truth are justified as being the best for the other person. To me that is not what friendship or even respect is. Once again I find another very bad message send here.

- The end to the game of the flag. The flag in the game was supposed to be something meaningful due to what it represented, it is explain to us as such repeatedly, (even though to me the amount of stressed put into it was ridiculous) and yet in the end it didn't really matter. So we have a senseless scene with an anticlimactic end. But that is not what really bothered me of the game. What bothered me was Elena's behavior. We can see at the end of the game how she basically let Blake give up something that we were previously told it was important to him, and he ends up not caring about the outcome. Does she know what loyalty is? Or it only goes one way for her, towards her? Dose she know what supporting someone is? Or it only applies if is something that benefits her? To me, she is not what a partner is supposed to be. To me she is whiny, self-center and of bad character. I wouldn't consider her as a human being worth of praise.

- The situation with Blake and Tabitha. First I need to say that it is tremendously cliché and unoriginal. But again, is Elena's behavior what bothers me most. She doesn't even show the guy an once of trust and blames him for her distrust, although I don't really see where he has proven to be untrustworthy before. Again, she behaves like a victim and a selfish person. She forgives him when she finds prove, not because she comes to trust the person she professes to love. To me, Elena is a very unlikable person who blames other people.

- How both Lucien and Tabitha have been pushed out of the way. Well, eliminated is more accurate. What a way to get rid of past lovers! One I can maybe accept, two, it is too much and it says something about the writer (and in case of doubt, it is not something nice).

- Wait until marriage. That's the last message this writer sends. I am so opposed to this that I wish I could give minus stars to this book. It sickens me. This was the last drop for me and if I had had any doubts from the messages before (which I didn't), this one would have sealed the idea that I would never ever read anything else from this author again or recommend her.


In conclusion, this book is a terrible end to the series. After reading the last two books, I don't even recommend a single book here because is a waste of time.

P.S.: I listened the entire series on audiobook and I must say that the narrator did a great job.

Firebolt (The Dragonian #1)

[Kbrazell · Rating 2 out of 5]

What just happened.

What did I read?

I'm usually all over this series but this book and the one before it? Na uh. The story in its general being is amazing - the world, the characters, amazing. I mean dragons and dragon riders, hello! What's not to love?

But it seems like in the past two books Woods might have lost her vision or I actually don't know. I'm not the writer here, I just love books. It just seemed like a lot of extra drama and angst for no reason. And it was an incredibly cheesing ending. Blake makes his big return by walking into her dad's wedding singing an incredibly cheesy song?? And there were enough grammatical and spelling errors for me notice - and that's quite a statement, I never notice that kind of stuff.

So yeah, kinda disappointed. Overall I'm still a big fan of this series, but I wish the last two books had stepped up to the plate a bit more.

[Amada · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this book was a whole-lot of drama, and too little action. I imagined this book would be filled with badass fighting scenes, kick-ass dragons clearing all the evil out of Etan. Instead, this novel is strife with a series of misunderstandings, and unnecessary drama, if you ask me. Time after time, we get a SUPER annoying Elena, who honestly, acts like a five year old child. As soon as she sees something she doesn't like, she runs away in the shower and hides away from everyone. She ignores ANYONE trying to reason with her. I am talking about Elena walking in on Blake and Tabitha...and OF COURSE, Elena just has to assume the worst, and basically forbids Blake from talking to her for months...I mean MONTHS! She will not listen to anyone tell her what actually happens, and instead of talking to Blake about it, she just blocks him off. This really bothers me, since I find this type of romance to be too immature.

Also, I thought this series was trying too hard to be like Harry Potter. We have Warbel Games instead of Quidditch. We have Dragonia instead of Hogwarts. We have a series of classes based on enhancing the skills of the students, Art of War, etc. We have an evil wizard Goran, instead of the evil Voldemort. And the list goes on from here. Except in this book, the action is BARELY THERE! GAHHHHH. We do not even get to see Helmet take on Goran. Instead, we hear about everything that happened to Elena in a summary paragraph.

And lastly, they said that Blake and Elena's love would be "the greatest love to ever exist". Why couldn't we get a taste of this? Instead, we get a pretty abrupt ending, if you ask me. And we never got to see the two kick ass together and their powers as true Dents. *utterly disappointed*

Overall, I would give this series a 3. Nothing special in my opinion. I felt like the potential was SO MUCH, but the delivery was seriously lacking.

[Sayara · Rating 1 out of 5]

Really!! Is this the turn this series had to take. Why is there the pic of Elena in a warrior look, coz the book have everything else than the war. Its all nonsense drama and nothing else.

It bored me to hell with all the drama going on,I skipped most of the conversations and was just hanging to know the final end. But the misunderstanding part was the final blow and I can get on with this book any more.

It was a great series but the last two books ruined it and how....

[Umaiya ❄️Ramblings of a Scattered Mind❄️]

To quote Tweebs,

*Grabs mic*

*Clears throat and begins to scream*


FUCK YOU

FUCK ME

FUCK THIS

FUCK THAT

FUCK EVERYTHING

I HATE YOU, ADRIENNE WOODS!!

No rating. No review. No nothing.

I hate you, Adrienne Woods. And I don't mean the I love you so much I hate you-hate you, I mean I really hate you.
I HATE YOU SO FUCKING MUCH!

Why couldn't you have left it alone?
The book was fine enough. Not the best end to an otherwise brilliant series but it was well enough. But no. You just had to attach that bonus chapter along too, didn't you? I couldn't even finish reading it, I only read a page of it and kept wishing I lived alone so that I could give into the ever increasing urge to start hysterically crying. I'm so pissed off right now and let me tell you something boys and girls, tears and fifteen-hour fasts don't mix well, they don't mix well at all, nor do they mix well with depression.

Something inside me died finishing this. I swear I am mourning the loss of something and I don't even know what. I am heart broken, you didn't just send me into a book slump, you sent me straight to the Book Graveyard without passing Go and without collecting my $200.
I don't know how to go on but after the past couple hours I'm clear headed enough to know my only two choices are to either Give up reading or go on a mind-numbing reading spree the book equivalent of The best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.

Guess the coming days will show which path I take.
*The Arrow Voice*
Adrienne Woods,
You have failed this reader.

A small itsy bitsy part that Umaiya inherited entirely from her saintly mother realises how she might be overreacting and blowing it all out of proportions but the other larger part refuses to hear anything contrary to how she felt finishing the book and she felt betrayed your honour.
All the same itsy bitsy chibi Umaiya would like to apologise for any hurt feelings and she assures the reader that her bigger sister will in fact someday see the light and regret the temper tantrum and finally leave an appropriate review.
-Chibi Umaiya was not seen after this act of betrayal for a very very long time.-

[Shapnam · Rating 4 out of 5]

WOODS IS ABSOLUTELY CREATIVE AND I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS BOOK!!! One of the best authors out there.

Update: these newsletters make me go crazy of wanting the book already

[Patricia Huynh · Rating 2 out of 5]

My Review:

5 books! I spent all this time waiting for the epic story of Elena and Blake to get the mess that was Starlight! And if I didn't know any better, I would have quit this book. I'll quickly brief why this book made me mad:

1.) The entire story dragged on, and on... and on. This was not the same page turner as the last four books.

2.) Elena and Blake are still fighting 40-60 percent of the book. Ugh. It's book 5, I think they deserve some happiness.

3.) Things got confusing with some very prominent grammar and spelling errors. Who even edits this? Because it distracted me to no end.

4.) I still have 100 questions for the end of this book. Elena's vision? Can dents even have kids? Where's Blake? Where's the epilogue? Where's my HEA?

ARRGGH. I invested my love and time and recommendation and just general enthusiasm for Adrienne Woods. It's like all of it got thrown back in my face. Man it hurts. To be honest, I don't know what to rate this book. I don't even know if I should even recommend the series. I'm just so heart broken. I really should have seen it coming from a mile away because the last book was weak. I don't know guys, the series started off so strong. What happened?



I will admit, the reason for the 2 stars was the sacrifice made on Blake's part. It's not his fault. It's the author's fault.

[Irma · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was really dissapointed in the Starlight. I loved this series and this book was highly anticipated but this book was probably my least favourite in this whole series. While reading it, I had to take long breaks and I even skimmed most of it, just to finish it and even the ending wasn't the best.

The plot was all jumbled up and felt like it wasn't even connected to the previous books. This whole book was based on the drama between Blake and Elena and Tabitha.

Most of the characters went downhill aswell. Elena, was the biggest one. She had improved a lot over the last few books, but in this book she was a more annoying version of the first book Elena.

I hated how after the dent, Blake's character changed fully. I miss the dark Blake sometimes with moments of niceness. So, basically book 3 Blake.

Sammy was basically non-existant in this book especially since I really like her. Also Dean! Beck had a bigger role, but I've still yet to like her.

One character I really liked was Ariana. I love how much she has devolped.

I was really excited to know about the dent, but I felt like the author hyped it up too much when realistically it was just confusing.

The war at the end was also very dissapointing. I felt it could have been written and explained better.

I though the ending was kind of sweet and a good closure for Elena.

I know there is a prequel being made of this book, but after reading this, my chances of reading them are very low.

[Cindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really loved this whole series and am pretty sad about coming to the end of it. I loved all the characters, even if they annoyed me sometimes. I was a little disappointed about this book since all the other books were pretty much a build up for the war that took place in this book and even though this book was the longest, the war played only a little part in it and that was pretty upsetting. I felt like it should have been bigger, and not have ended so quickly. Really happy with how everything turned out for Blake and Elena though.

[Desislava Pavlova · Rating 4 out of 5]

The following review is for all 5 main books in the series and contains spoilers.

Overall rating of the series 6 of 10



Rating 6 of 10

First book in the series and pretty good as one. A bit slow at times. We get too much information in it though - 50 pages (okay, maybe a 100) and readers are already aware what Elena's destiny is. Her feeling for Lucian.... well, lets say I didn't quite believe in them. It lacked gradation, it looked almost like some insta-love but lacked chemistry. I can accept insta-love in between fated mates but Lucian is not her fated mate and at this point readers are already very well aware of it. I would personally have loved to see more about what Elena is learning, more interaction with other characters. Still a nice starting book and leaves you wanting more of the enchanting world there.



Rating 6 of 10

Biggest problem I had with this book - it completely ignored what Elena have been told at the end of book one - that she has blood that can turn weapons in some sort of special weapons for killing evil. And it made no sense. How no one of the main characters didn't notice it? Mention it?
Lucian and Elena's romance is still with no chemistry for me. More like I'm being told it's there but never really seeing it. Lucian and Blake had more chemistry than that. And Lucian's death? Pointless. He had so many possibilities as a character for when finally Elena's destiny became known, but the author took the easy way out and killed him before that. Such a pity.



Rating 5 of 10

At this point it's obvious the author is trying to trow readers of-course on Elena's destiny. Not really working. It only makes Elena look like she has the IQ of a squirrel. If the book was about Elena trying to figure out how she can be a rider and a dragon at the same time - it would have been so worth it, but instead it was about her still not figuring who she really is. Considering it have been almost spelled to her in the first book.... yeah, you get it, she looks like a complete idiot of a heroine.




Rating 3 of 10

Will admit it to considering dropping the series when I found out what is in this book. Decided that the author must have something really good planned to trow in such a huge trigger in and even thought I skipped the whole part 2, I pressed on reading further. Did I expect something really good? Yes. Did I got it? NO. The whole gang rape thing was a complete failure. It had no point in the story except to cause more rift between Blake and Elena, which was completely not necessary as they had enough other things between them already to last them for another book. And even Elena's recovery is not well handled. One-two-three - I'm fine. The vampire shrink was nice, yes, but still Elena should have struggled more, fear more. What we saw was exactly the same as what we saw at the start if the previous book - Elena staying in bed and having nightmares. The death of a friend/boyfriend/lover is not the same as being gang raped. The reaction to the one and the other is not and should not be the same. The book would have benefited a lot from some editing or at least beta reading so someone tells the author that some things are just too much and not all characters should giggle as five-year-old.




Rating 8 of 10

Finally what we all have been waiting for since book one. Really nice book and obviously better edited. Biggest problems I had with it:
- the whole blood thing has become a cliche - the missing ingredient could have been Sir Robert for example
- lack of character in some secondary characters - for example Dean was so unnoticeable in the whole series that I couldn't care less he died. If we at least have seen Sammy's claiming things might have been different but... missed opportunity here.
- what happened with the axes from the first book? Why no one took them into the battle? Why they weren't even considered as the missing ingredient? Practically after book one they completely vanished. Big plot hole.
- the dead people coming to say goodbye at the wedding, especially the queen - sooo not a good idea. The king is getting married, he must have made his peace with her death already, not cry and tell her he loves her. If I were Constance I would have felt as some sort of a consolation prize, not a loved woman who just got married.
Still the best book for me in the series.

The series as whole are really good. The author had too many ideas and not all of them worked well, but the world she built was magical. That and I love dragons.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I expected more of this book. Especially since it was the last one. The pace was slow and it made the book feel too long.
They're supposed to be planning things, they're at war after all, but she goes back to the academy like nothing is going on. It also wastes time describing boring facts about her routine.
That plus the misunderstandings made want to pull my hair out.

It was such a let down until the very bitter end. What a shame!

[vee · Rating 5 out of 5]

a stunning heartbreaking conclusion!

[anjuli · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the final book in the Dragonian series. I finally decided to read it after I let it sit in my TBR for a long time cuz frankly, I was very tired of the drama between Blake and Elena. Mostly, Elena. She was one of the most annoying characters in the series and she does not disappoint, as usual, with this book. The overall Dragonian series story is very interesting. However, Elena always got on my nerves.

The story continues with Elena and Blake trying to reconcile with each other after the tragic and horrific events in Moonbreeze, her promise to Tabitha and overall, accepting being part of a dent. Elena is struggling to accept the dent and the huge change brought on in Blake cuz of that. I don't blame her. Considering how much of a douchbag Blake was to her and everyone else, I would be struggling to accept the sudden, wonderful, caring Blake as well. The fact that he was struggling with his darkness and trying not to succumb to it completely and blamed his douchyness to the "darkness" within him was an understatement. We are told via Blake's poems in the book how much darkness affected him and how Elena saved him. He tries to explain to her how it was for him ever since she entered his world. Blake, on the other hand, is willing to do anything to make Elena believe. So, on again, off again....it continues. A lot.

Dent, I was still overall confused. The explanation was not enough to clarify what it is exactly. The whole issue with dent that was built overall several books...at the end just felt meh cuz I didn't get it.

For 3/4 of the book Elena/Blake drama continues along with them trying to gather allies for the WAR that is inevitable. Everyone else is also trying to figure out how to free Etan despite Elena's father telling her not to do it. Elena, in Moonbreeze, had figured out how to enter/exit Etan. The prophecy was Blake and Elena together will be able to free Etan along with some missing ingredient. However, they had no clue as to what that missing thing was? TILL THE VERY END. Some of the questions have been answered yet it left me questioning as to the clarity of it all. We do find out about the orbs (what they do) much later in the book but, it wasn't explained what it was exactly.

The WAR, it doesn't happen until the last 100 pages or so. And, it is over before you even know it. We do not see much of fighting. We barely get a peek at the fight with Goran. Mostly, we're told how the war ended...who died and who lived. Another tidbit about Goran (which honestly was huge and should have been hinted at in previous books for a nice build up) was just revealed right at the end. Do we seriously NEED secrecy when it comes to life and death? Don't you think it should have been revealed early on who Goran was exactly so they had a better chance of winning? Saving lives?

Some new characters and POV were introduced for example, Isaac and rest of Blake's band members were introduced in one of the chapters. I wish we had seen more of them in previous books to add meaning to their relationship and eventual help at the end of the book. They just seemed as fillers when they got brought into the last book. which I found very odd as it is the last book in the series and again, I wish they were introduced earlier to matter more. Tabitha and Blake issue was sorted out poorly and it kind of left a bitter taste in my mouth how it all ended...just to provide a neat ending for Blake and Elena. The book neatly (and a tad abruptly) ends along with some sad parts to the story. There were some things I found very weird or rather odd towards the end of the book just to provide a happy ending.
I found it very weird that King Albert ended up marrying Constance after 3 months of being out of Etan. Like, really dude? There was no build up or back story of them ever being remotely romantically involved. He's a king....you don't marry so easy knowing the power your wife will hold and future of the kingdom. Granted Constance was super nice. But, still. Not to mention, it was just bam, lets get marries just so we can all live HEA.

I wish the book editor did the job well as there were a LOT of spelling/grammar mistakes which took away from complete enjoyment. I am ok with some spelling errors as it happens & I ignore them most of the time. At times, I also found myself confused by who was speaking the dialogues the flow was off. This one needs really good editing! Not to mention, I felt a bit confused during some parts of the story cuz it felt just choppy and disconnected. But, that's been one of my issues with this entire series. Along with there is a lot of telling....and not much showing.

I do recommend this book for closure/end of the series. I was a bit disappointed to say the least.

[Fas_sihah · Rating 2 out of 5]

What can I say about this series? The story is supposedly very good. There are dragons, magic, warriors, I mean, what not to love? But, the narrator is really really bad. To me, a novel really should hook you in. Make you experience the world. I will really like the world of Paegeia if not the reasons of its narrator. There are freaking mermaid. For the first time in my life, I feel really annoyed with the heroine, Elena. She is so selfish, arrogant, so full of herself. She really wants to be a princess despite all the time she said "dont call her Princess." It is like, she is the princess now. So she should be waking in a comfortable bed instead of a barn. Other than that, what the hell with everybody adores her? She done nothing except froze, whine, cry, whine some more. She thought everyone else are selfish except for her. And it is so annoying when she have the fights and doubt about Blake. She doesnt want to listen to anybody. I know I can sum it all up with her character is not progressing but I am so mad at her that I feel like if I met her for real, I will slapped her hard right in her stupid, royal face. She is so, so damn annoying. I literally screamed at her so many times. Fuuh.. Okay. I need to get that all out first.

Let's talk about the story itself. Like I said before, the story is interesting. But. Could you please let another author write this story? Or, I dont know. Make a beta reading and fix how you write the story. I am really sorry but I really really hate your style of writing. You know there are many adjectives to describe things other than "the most beautiful" , "very beautiful".. Everything is beautiful. Like the necklace Lucian gave to Elena. It can be described as "delicate". There are so many things that can be fixed in this series. For example, the using of word "hate". I really don't want to count them on fingers cause I would need my entire family's hand and it would still not be enough. And my family is huge. She hates this. She hates that. There are no other explanation that can make readers relate to what she feels. And I really hate that.

So the conclusion, congrats to the author for having a great idea for a series. But, please improve your writing skills in the future. Please, I am begging you cause if it is not your writing skill, I would be your huge fan. Your idea is really really great. To the other readers, who have finish this series, I am sure you are here to blow off some steam. Just take a deep breath and slowly let it go. To the others who are still trying to figure out either this is a great series or not, good luck figuring that out. I am done.

[Karalee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Never has a book needed an editor more or at least someone to track continuity. Storylines were abandoned with no explanation - the viden? Who with Cain tried to trick her to doubt her powers? Did the prophecy ever turn blue? AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GIRL WHOSE BED ELENA TOOK? Has no one there ever noticed that she went on her trip and NEVER came back?

[Amy Adamson · Rating 1 out of 5]

I finished the series out of a need for completion, but there were so many things wrong with the whole series.

It first strikes as being poorly written, but I think that’s unfair. I feel it was poorly edited, and from the start.

My main issues:

Beating the “bad” dragons, and the way this is just accepted by everyone. One, no imagination. Two, who is reading this book? Who is it marketed towards? Young adults. Please, you want this to be an acceptable reason to keeping anyone in line?

Death and rape being a major issue for the character then just brushed aside when the author is bored of them. Dealing with a new partner after the death of an old one isn’t easy, and when you read of someone being gang raped but that’s ok as soon as the next love interest shows up? Again, look at your audience and try for some actual resolution.

Minor issues:

People just don’t ‘giggle’ every time someone speaks. They just don’t. Poor writing for sure, but something that should have been picked up in the editing/rewriting process. The same goes for leaping to yelling after every sentence that isn’t giggled at.

For the love of blueberries?!? Seriously? Another thing that could have been edited out.

The killing off of characters that didn’t need killing off. Lucien, ok. Tabitha? Lazy.

My gut feel is the author had a message, and when she dithered her support team were nowhere to be found. Too many plot points left unexplained, while other, unimportant things, had to be tied up neatly.

On the whole it read like a fanfiction, and could so easily have been polished into something breathtaking.

[Dr. Andy · Rating 3 out of 5]

OKAY, I really love this series and the characters in it, but this book and Moonbreeze had MAJOR ISSUES. Like the horrible sentences that made no fucking sense. The wrong names and words that didn't even fit together were ALL OVER THE PLACE. It made me mad and took a lot away from the reading experience. This book felt like it had missed the final rounds of editing.

Also, Blake and Elena's relationship drama annoyed me. They already went through the running away/not doing this phase. I didn't need to see it happen again but with a different theme. It made me really mad that Elena couldn't trust Blake after everything and would let something so stupid as Tabitha to basically break up the Dent. ALSO SHE FREAKING GOT BECKY TO BELIEVE IT WAS A SPELL FOR LIKE DAYS/WEEKS NO ELENA WHY DID YOU MESS WITH THEM. The other thing that riled me was the missing ingredient. There was like no fucking time dedicated to finding it. Then the bitches go on this mini vacation before A MAJOR WAR AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE MISSING INGREDIENT IS. LITERALLY ALL THEIR PLANS DEPEND ON IT WORKING. Oh I was fuming by this point. But the ending made up for it. It was the right amount of crazy, good and sad. It wasn't perfect, but I loved how this series ended. I have no idea whether I want to read Moonbeam either cause it could ruin this series/time-space continuum and how I would be able to exist after that.

[Hemod · Rating 2 out of 5]

A disappointing conclusion to a promising series. After a weaker 4th book, I was hesitant to read the final installment, but stellar reviews convinced me to give it a try. I hardly made it to the end, and not because of the significant amount of editing errors.

The cover of the book shows the image of Elena as a fighter and could not be more misleading. I presume that the writer intended to show through the first half of the book the internal struggle of the young women with her traumatic past. She failed miserably. The image of Elena that emerged from the attempt is the one of a hysterical, irrational, self-absorbed, and immature girl, a stereotypical princesses, having nothing to do with the character developed in the first three books. The remaining part of the book did not do enough for me the erase that image. The determined and proactive Elena from the earlier books turned into passive follower and typical damsel in distress.

I can summarize the reading experience with Elena's favorite statement: "Whatever".

[Jamie · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars.
2020 review- I love this series! Elena finally learns to accept Blake after a harsh road. ANd I love the game she and Becky play on the boys. This book comes full circle and wrap everything up in a great conclusion. Old characters we thought were gone even get another moment. And an unexpected twist that nearly costs them everything! I love the how Blake and Elena have has to work for their relationship and I really loved learning more about what Dents are! Yet be warned, there is tragedy too.

[Alessandro · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved this series, even though it was a little.. well immature at times. I had pretty high hopes for the ending.. but i must say it was a little anticlimactic..

[Cassie C · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review to come!

Update 6/4/16:

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Actual rating 3.5 stars

This review is breaking my heart to write. I have been in love with this entire series since I first picked it up back in 2013. I have had a special place in my heart for all of these characters for so long (don't worry...I still do!!) but this finale was a let down in many ways. I actually considered not writing a review for this because I simply didn't want to write a review that wasn't raving over this book. However, I feel it's important to express my opinion on why I didn't like this book as much as the other 4 books in the series.

At the heart of this novel, the story was very good. Yes, there were a lot of elements of this book that I didn't like, but I do want it be known that I did enjoy the book. I just didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much as the previous novels. If you took out all of the elements that caused problems, this book would be about 200-300 pages shorter, and would be nonstop action--and if this happened--I would have rated this book probably 5 stars (or at least a 4). Unfortunately, that isn't what happened, and it left me feeling like this



My first complaint was the countless grammar/spelling errors in this book. I'm not kidding when I say that I think I found at least 1 glaring error on every page. I can deal with a couple errors here and there, but not to this extent. It got to a point where it was incredibly distracting and even made scenes confusing because of the words being used. I felt as if I was reading a first draft of the novel, rather than the final, published book. My next major complaint was the (extremely) pointless drama between Elena and Blake. This was my face for most of the scenes in this book



I would have been fine with a little back and forth, but literally 60% of this book is ridiculous drama that shouldn't exist at this point in Blake and Elena's story. The drama was unnecessary and was just a series of misunderstandings. I'm not sure why this direction was chosen for Blake and Elena, but it was neither wanted or needed. This drama led to this book dragging on and on, and made me lose a lot of interest in the actual story. But the biggest problem with all of this drama was that it distracted from the great romance that exists between Elena and Blake. All of their drama overshadowed the supposed "greatest love to ever exist" and it left me extremely disappointed. I was looking forward to Blake and Elena finally, FINALLY being together, and it just fell apart.



The root of all of this drama though leads me to another problem. Who was the root of all this drama you ask? It was Elena. Don't get me wrong, Elena always had her moments, but she was always a very strong character. That basically went out the window in this novel, which is something I never thought I would say. She became extremely annoying and acted like a toddler for most of the story. She didn't want to listen to anyone, and god forbid anyone would try to actually talk some sense into her. Nope, Elena definitely wasn't having any of that. Ultimately, she became very immature in this book, and was not at all like the character I loved so much.

As I said, when this book was focused on the actual plot, it was great. But these scenes were few and far between for a good chunk of this novel. The action was virtually non-existent until the end (when it should have been a huge part of the entire book), and even when the story reached its climax...well it fizzled out. There was action, but not what the action should have been. Moreover, I still had a lot of questions. Now these questions might be answered in the spin-off books she is doing (Moonbeam being the first of these, which focuses on Blake and Elena again if I'm remembering correctly). So, I'm still holding out hope that because she is currently writing this book, answers will be revealed in the future.

Overall, I'm not sure what to say about this book because it truly let me down in many ways. I enjoyed it, but this was not what I was expecting of a finale for one of my favorite series--a series I recommend to everyone. I'm not giving up yet though, and have high hopes for Moonbeam!

Happy reading :)

[Di · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always try to rate a book as soon as I close it so that I can capture exactly how I feel at the time and exactly where that book transported me to. This book is a wonderful example of why I do this because if I had waited until today to rate it, I probably would have dropped that rating to a three star, but truthfully this book was satisfying in so many ways and when I finally came to the close of it and reminisced about the entire story that I had read, I needed to give it the four stars because I really liked it.

There were so many great elements to this novel and in fact to this whole series, but there were also a huge number of letdowns. There were still, even in this last book published so many years after the first, so many glaring errors in both grammar and spelling. This has been a big issue throughout the entire series. I'm not sure if the physical books would be any better but the ebooks were pretty horrific.

Another factor for me that was more to do with the plot planning - revelation disappointments. The mysterious and elusive ingredient that was built up and built up from the previous book? I was so disappointed to learn what it actually was.

I mean, you get a foretelling like this:

“After the true bond has been cast, they will need to find a way past. Into the world of despair and fright, to find the one who can harness the light. Defeat the beast you must or the fate of one heart will turn to dust.”

And it turns out that this missing ingredient is the same damn thing that it always comes down to in this series? Blood? Really?

The mystical orbs of the mighty Rubicon were also such a let down and at the end of the day ended up being a way to tie up a loose end that probably didn't even need tying up. It would have been better left alone.

And the most frustrating of the plot-lines - angsty disputes and unnecessary misunderstandings. Yes, we have heard how these two main characters will share the greatest love ever seen blah, blah, blah, but we didn't get to see any of it. It would have been far nicer to read about the two of them finally getting along and working together for the entire book and then we could have focused more on the action of freeing Etan instead of summing it all up in a few paragraphs after Elena wakes from her coma. WE missed out on so much! There was just a lot of teenage drama where by this point of the series, when the main characters are now actually all adults, I was expecting further character development from these people and a heavier focus on what was actually happening in the world and a well written finale.

There are a lot of things that I could pick apart here, and in fact writing this review has frustrated me even more with this series, but at the end of the day I did love it. There has been a lot of growth from the Author throughout this series which excites me - I cannot wait to read more by Adrienne Woods There is something so addictive about this world, something that kept compelling me to read and read and read. Something that made me fall in love with these characters despite all the flaws. Some formula that Woods has got entirely correct and that urges me to ask you to give this series a chance if you are thinking of trying it. I was thoroughly entertained and captivated by this and that is one of my greatest priorities for a good book!

[Paola · Rating 5 out of 5]

As the last book in the series – I am happy to say that Starlight didn't disappoint (as so many others sometimes do)!

I enjoyed the build up to the inevitable final conclusion and battle. I really couldn’t put it down!

I love that Adrienne doesn’t feel the need to dumb anything down for her readers – small little tit bits and clues are dropped along the way, and yes you are asked to connect the dots – and they all finally get tied up (which makes me so happy - as cannot stand to get to the end and not have clarification!) Whilst reading I had many Eureka moments, where things that happened in the other books were finally explained and everything started to make sense!!

Being that I am more into the older part of the Young Adult age category – I am so pleased that Adrienne does touch of some of the more adult language and graphic things that happen (in all of history and writing - battles and war aren’t fluffy and sugar-coated!). So I totally stand by some of the subjects she touched on in this series and it all just makes Elena our heroine so much stronger than some of the other frilly/sickly sweet ‘strong’ heroines we get.

Also due to the fact that I have read almost anything I can get my hands on in the YA field, often I find that I can predict or guess at some authors ‘massive surprises’ – but Adrienne kept me guessing up until the final page. I mean the explanation of a rider and their dragons dent – WOW – move over Twilight and your imprinting! I would take a dent over anything! Just perfect and totally not what I expected!

Some of the characters I didn’t like from the very first books made decisions that I would never expect and some came good – love that Adrienne after 5 books could still surprise us with the characters patterns of behaviour!

My only struggle was with my love/ hate feelings towards Becky who sometimes I feel can border on a bully, but maybe that’s just me. Yes at times I also wanted to slap her upside the head for the mean harsh comments she made, but then she would do something loyal and I would forgive her.
Elena sometimes did come across a little whiny, which did grate – but again very minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things! What can you expect from teenagers?!

It was a bittersweet ending, loved it all, we lost a lot and yes I did shed a tear in happiness and also in sadness but isn't that just so true to life!). I am so pleased to have picked up this series and followed through!

As a follower of Adrienne’s mailing list - I enjoyed all of her weekly chapter updates and sneak peaks! She really knows how to treat her readers+ fans - which also just adds to my enjoyment of this author and her books!

My only little thing - I read the story on the Kindle version (as I am from the UK) it was a little hard to get the actual book, there were quite a few typos which did cause a few re reads of sentences - but honestly the book was so good it didn't slow me down all that much!

If you love dragons, this will be a great spin on an already overdone genre! Definitely pick up this series and enjoy the character banter, love hate situations, tears and joy!

To get over the book hangover -
*I think you will also Love Melissa De La Cruz's Heart of Dread series or Jaymin Eve's Supernatural Prison series*


This review will appear on my blog: https://pageswithpaola.wordpress.com/

[Sovanratana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am happy, sad, hopeful, excited, so many emotions; I can't even put into words how much I've grown to love this series. It has been such an amazing journey. My love for dragons has grown over the past month I've been reading the Dragonian series. I've sobbed and laughed, and cried at school twice.

There has of course been ups and downs, a moment where I wanted to quit because it seemed hard to get through but I read on and it was all worth it. Sure I get confused and a tiny bit annoyed (just a tiny bit) every once in a while, and there are spelling and grammar mistakes, but overall I still enjoyed this wonderful series. It is easily one of my favorite series. I just cannot bear to give Starlight anything less than 5 stars.

The series was definitely action packed and full of plot twists. My favorite is definitely this one. I loved all the poems and songs in here. I think I just might check out poems now. I've never been interested in them before. But in Starlight, the song lyrics, Blake's poems were so so good I wished they were real.

"I've seen your hopes, experienced your fears,
As part of you, I've lived your years.
Come my love, come be still.
Wrapped you in the arms of lovers will.

Oh my love, I've been so wrong,
I know now where I belong.
My darkness has died, evil no more,
The bond we share shakes my core.
Do not part, it's too sweet sorrow,
I'm here, loving you till tomorrow.

Love, come be still.
I need you more than you'll ever know.
The light in me you make it grow.

I need you now, I'll make things right.
For you alone, I will always fight.
You keep my demons away,
Your purity, your innocence, you make me stay.
Always have, always will."

Seriously if someone writes me something like that I will die and come back to marry them. I NEED A BLAKE.

I KNOW I'VE SAID IT BEFORE BUT THIS SERIES IS JUST SO FRAWSOME AND AMAZING. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. PLEASE READ IT. I'M SAD NOW BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO PART WITH THE CHARACTERS BUT THERE'S A NEW SPINOFF IN NOVEMBER YAY. BLOODY HELL I CAN'T WAIT.

Also I forgot I haven't talked about the characters. I love them all. Elena, Blake, Sammy, Dean, Becky, George, Lucian, Isaac and The Shifters, hell even Emanual and the Mckenzies, the ops guys, literally almost everyone. Elena has grown so much and the character development is seriously good and it's amazing to have gone through all that with her. Blake is just fucking perfect I don't even need to say anything. Becky and Sammy are like the best friends ever and both are so fierce and strong and loyal. George is so goofy and I envy the relationship he has with Becky. I feel like we didn't get very much of Dean but he's a nice guy. Me likey.

So now I don't know how to end this review. I'm probably stalling because when I press 'Done' then it's time to move on to a new book. I hope one day I'll look back on this review and go through all the love and feels again.

[Jackie - Fire & Ice Book Reviews · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is so bitter sweet. I have been a hardcore fan since Firebolt first released. And to read this book really made me emotional.

First, let me say how honored I am that I was a beta reader for this book, but some of my suggestions made it into the final book. I honestly have no words.

I have loved Blake from the start. There was just something about him that amazed me even when he was an a$$ and fighting his dark side.

I had always wished that he and Elena could be together. In Starlight we got to see so many sweet Blake and Elena moments. It was so beautiful and moving to see their love for each other grow and blossom into something that is so beautiful.

Tabatha has never been one of my favorite characters in the series. I saw her as weak and desperate. She showed us more of that in Starlight, but I have to say that after all of those times we have seen her be a weak little b!*ch, she majorly redeemed herself. She turned out to be a honorable dragon.

Arianna also redeemed herself in this book. She has really grown up. And I am happy for her.

So many amazing things happened in this book that made it not only epic, but definitely my favorite book so far this year.

So many surprising things happened that had me going "oh sh!t" while sitting on the edge of my seat biting my nails like a crazy lady.

And on the other hand I was riding an emotional rollercoaster while crying my eyes out. I think I may have used a whole box of tissues. haha.

But over all I am very pleased at everything that happened. The war was amazing, the dent was beautiful. The scenes with Elena and Blake were sweet. All of the characters were amazing. Becky, George, Sammy, Dean, Sir Robert, Isabel, just everyone. Loved, loved, loved.

If you are new to The Dragonian series, please give it a read starting with Book one, Firebolt. You will love it.

Thanks Adrienne Woods for writing a kicka$$ book, but most of all, an amazing series!

[⋆☆☽ Kriss ☾☆⋆ · Rating 2 out of 5]

My 2025 reviews of the whole Dragonian series can be found here: Book #1 Firebolt, Book #2 Thunderlight, Book #3 Frostbite, Book #4 Moonbreeze.

Ah, we have come to the end of a strange and bonkers roller coaster ride. In the past, I gave the finale 5 stars, but after this reread, I find myself feeling like Starlight is one of the weaker books in the series.

Even when the prior four were bad, there was still some quality to them that kept me engaged, either because I genuinely was interested or because things were so weird I had to see them play out, but I actually started to struggle getting through several parts of the story.

For example, the big, climatic battle was... underwhelming. For all the build up the author had tried to put into the big battle where Goran is defeated, Etan is freed, and Elena and fulfilled her grand destiny, the end result didn't produce a feeling of grandeur. There wasn't much suspense and it lacked a sense of stakes. The author put too much of the logistics of the battle as something that happened off-page and Elena doesn't need to know about it or worry about it (and thus neither does the reader), resulting in it feeling... too simplistic and easy. It almost makes you wonder what the fuss was because it unfolds without much strife.

There's also a big problem with repetitiveness in this book. There are so many pages wasted on character reiterating the same things over and over and over.

Elena probably bemoans how she can't live without Blake two hundred times in this book, subjecting readers to repeat scenes of her hoping she and Blake make it through their finale battle. Like, I know she's been through an onslaught of tragedy and the idea of losing true love after finally finding it is a hard experience, but the story has Elena moan about how she'll die without Blake so often the whole run, it really kills any emotional weight it might have carried.

There's also a lot of scenes of Elena and/or Blake trying to have a if I don't make it back alive... kind of conversation with their friends and loved ones, only for them to be shut down and told, "No, we won't have that conversation because you're going to live, promise me! This isn't good-bye!" When they're finally ready to set off to start their grand mission, there's a section of like 10 pages where it's just Elena saying good-bye to multiple people one by one, repeating the same basic conversation again and again. It was starting to drive me bonkers that the author thought that was necessary.

Literally like a good 50 pages could have been cut from this if the author had just been more selective about using these kinds of scenes.

Part of my general dissatisfaction with this book also stems from the fact that weaknesses in the author's story crafting and her overall writing ability really hit the plot hard.

The plot of the Dragonian series was a bit ambitious and as much as the author tried, I think it was just a bit beyond her ability to really execute it the way she wanted. The ending has this permeating air of let's just summarize all the ways everything is wrapped up and happy where she just throws a bunch of stuff at the reader, trying to wrap up loose ends, and it comes off feeling pretty hastily done.

For example, in Moonbreeze, the author randomly decides that Blake has "rubicon orbs" that he briefly searches for while on a quest with Elena. We aren't told what they do or why they matter, and the plot didn't pay them much attention, then, suddenly, in this book Blake goes off to find the rest and we learn their function is... a brief visit with the dead. There's no lore behind them or justification for Blake having them (as to oppose to them just being magical objects that exist) and for their power being to temporarily grant the ability to talk with the dead beyond the author thinking it'd be a real sweet scene for Elena to finally meet her dead mother for thirty seconds.

No idea if the author planned that out or just happened to decide on the fly that's how she'd utilize a plot device she set up, but either way, it could have been cut with zero consequences.

Another thing I felt was really weak was this idea that there was a "missing ingredient" that Blake and Elena needed to uncover in order to defeat the evil creature dragon. The way it's approached felt so vague and unexplained, too. And I got real sick of the jokes about it sounding like they were baking a cake. It all starts with Blake just... sensing that an "ingredient" is missing that they need to find because if they don't "one of us will die."

We're kept in suspense over what it is the whole time and then the answer is... it's just Elena's blood mixed with Blake's blood, even though, like two hundred pages prior, they'd dismissed the answer being Elena's blood (which, by the way, was already the secret key to getting past the creepers so the author making it part of killing the final boss monster too just feels so contrived). It just feels so stupid that they overlooked the possibility that the magic bloods of the two ultra special chosen ones could be the "ingredient"

Instead of them considering that, we just get endless pages of Elena hoping that poison berries from a plant she refers to by a name will work. "Louie's berries" get mentioned like 40 times and they don't even try to use them! Like, Elena doesn't even shoot an arrow tipped in the poison before she tries the mixed blood thing. What an absolute waste to have included the poison plant!

Now for a lightning round of various things I want to complain about.

- At one point, they need to get messages to prisoners of war in Etan, so Blake, in human form, puts actual feces in his mouth to spit at the wagons transporting them. It's explained like oh yeah secret messages hidden in animal scat but how they execute it... Blake could have just had balls of animal dung and thrown them with his hands and then told the guards he was throwing shit at them because he hates them. You know, like people throwing rotten food or rocks. He didn't need to put actual shit in his mouth. The author had him do it for a lame joke about him wondering if Elena will ever kiss him again.

- The author writes "yip" instead of "yup" or "yep." You know, another word for yes. Yip is like... a short cry.

- Insinuating that the yin-yang symbol is actually about the author's weird dragon universe and not an ancient philosophy foundational in belief systems from a culture the author isn't part of it.

- Continuing to push the whole Elena and Blake can't have sex before marriage thing even though they do have sex in this book and, as mentioned in my last review, are both adults. Like, Blake tells Elena that her dead mom made him promise to "keep his hormones in check" until they were married, even though it was Elena who really pushed for them to have sex. We don't even get to see them married! Her dad gets married to Constance (another weird tacked on happy ending thing) but we don't get an epilogue of the two of them getting married in a couple years. That's the kind of fluffy, happy ending style thing people wanna read!

- The constant back and forth in Blake and Elena's relationship over the dent and the really stupid notion that if people understood what it was "their enemies would kill them." Like, again, it's well known dents have a really deep soulmate-style bond, people already know that killing part of a dent will do major harm to the other. It's so redundant! Also, like, Elena is able to physically see and interact with Blake as a baby, even takes one of his bracelets, but then becomes unable to see and interact with him with age... so like... how is it he's a weird ghostly figure most of the time but at the start was able to touch Elena and she was even able to take items he was wearing with her?

To conclude... I got through the ending, but, was pretty disappointed with it. I felt kind of tired and unsatisfied by the conclusion. In some ways, the author must have been too because I didn't feel her passion in this installment.

Overall this series is... pretty bad, all things considered. The writing is rough, the plot is chaotic, but despite it all, I still kind of love it in my own way and appreciate the author's efforts to push through even when her abilities were holding her back. I'd really only recommend people read it as a so-bad-it's-kind-of-good way, because if you approach the read with seriousness and sincerity like it's a well polished story, you'll probably not have a good time.

And, with that, I am planning on, for the first time, reading the author's rewrite series where it's this series, just all from Blake's point of view. I want to see if the author improved over the years, whether she tries to retcon things, if she can maintain continuity with this series, and overall what she wrote because the series warns that Blake's POV is for mature readers. No idea when I'll get around to it, but, someday I'm sure I will.

Have a feeling it'll be another bonkers experience.

[Jourdan Clum · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, thank goodness this series is over. I wanted to like it, the concept was good, however the characters were terrible. The main character is selfish and at no point redeems herself. She has very little character development even throughout five books. Blake’s character evolution is absurd and even when they try to explain it, it still doesn’t make sense. The concept of a dent is obnoxious and doesn’t feel genuine despite the fact that it’s supposed to be the most genuine thing in the world.

You would think that after five books it would have led to an epic battle, but it was mostly a flop.

Pretty much just all done with this. ✌️

[Mita · Rating 2 out of 5]

i'm sorely disappointed. regardless of the eventual desired ending, the story was poorly written, in need of some serious editing, grammar reworking, and spell checking. i had to force myself through to the ending, taking multiple breaks between chapters, pages and sometimes even paragraphs. i don't remember the previous books being so poorly written but i hate that it ruins the story for me, especially when what i can remember was that i really LIKED the story :p
the only reason it gets two instead of one star is because i still appreciated the ending

[Tiffany Spencer]

Starlight
After the council meeting, Blake tells Elena he’s going to meet with his father for three days and Eleana goes back to school. She catches Sam and Becky up with what’s going on with Blake. Later that night, Elena dreams about the incident but an invisible hand snatches them up. Elena tries once again to tell herself Blake’s under a spell. The next day, Tabitha confronts her about the promise she made, but Elena lies and tells her nothing happened. She just got close to his dragon form. Elena finds out Becky broke it off with George when he wouldn’t explain how the dent works. George tells her it’s not a spell but won’t tell her how it works. He says if their enemies find out they’ll kill the dent. He tells her right now he wishes she didn’t exist. (If Blake won’t tell her he won’t either). Then he storms off. Becky demands to know what makes the dent is but when George won’t tell her she gets up and walks out.

In Aviation class, Elena blames Blake. He tee will show her in time. Later, Elena convinces Becky to make up with Geroge. She speaks with Blake and tells him about the promise she made with Tabitha. Now they’re at odds again. When Blake returns, he’s in dragon form and says this is the form he’ll take from now on. In Aviation class, Elena flies on Blake for the first time. After the flight, Blake kisses Elana after transforming back. He tells her he broke up with Tabitha five months ago. Blake tells Elena that what he feels is the real thing, but Elena doesn’t trust it. She needs him to tell her. He tells her he’s here’s forever. He tells her he feel in love with her before the dent. The moment he saw her come out of the water. She took the darkness from him and for that he’ll be in her life in whatever capacity she needs him to be. Later at school, Tabitha again tries to remind Elena of the promise, but Elena tells her she’s tired of trying to fight him and she can’t make him do something he doesn’t want to do. If he changes his mind (and she knows they broke up) she’ll step aside. That night, Elena and Blake spend some time in the forest getting to know each other. Blake and Elena go back -to Adian- to get another 90 people out.

The next day after Elena is rested, Blake tells her he needs to leave to train for the Dragon League and will be gone at least 3 days. He’ll leave that weekend to go to Aidan.Papi shows up and gives a lesson in the Art of War class where Blake has to surrender his abilities to Elena in human form. This is something George and Becky have done before unknowingly and that comes easy to them. But after several tries of clearly hurting Blake, Elena walks away. Becky later tells her it’s Blake’s fear of surrendering that’s holding him back. Elena then tells her about fighting the Saudine and finding the hidden ingredient. If they fail one of them will die. Blake starts to train Elena and gives her an lesson on how she shouldn’t let her anger get the better of her by using Tabitha to taunt her. Emanuel gives Elena the news that Blake vanished and didn’t come back. He has to restrain Elena from going to look for him. They all come to the conclusion that Blake’s disappearance had to do with the oath -that he decided not to keep-that he made to Elena.

There’s a scream one night and Elena finds George on the floor with everyone around him. He says there was darkness and then there was lightning around him and he knew he’d find -Becky-again. He says he felt so much power but he couldn’t do anything. He thinks it was connected to Blake. Elena tries to sneak out, but Emmanuel catches her. The next day, Sir Robert tells Elena they have a plan.But they tell her right now all she can do is wait. Sir Robert says they’ll search Aidan and if Warren has him there will be rumors. Sir Robert says she can come if it’ll keep her from sneaking out. After a dream, Elena finds a figure in her room on the floor. It’s Blake. Steam is rolling off his body -just like it did George’s-. His body is ice cold. He throws up black goo. When everyone comes in the room, Blake runs out of the room.

It's a hard 5 following days for Blake and everyone watches after him. He speaks of the same things as George (the darkness, the lightning). It’s said maybe he was in hell because of the sulfar he vomited. Blake wakes up and doesn’t want to see anyone. He’s reverted back to “the old Blake”. But Elena finds out from Emmanuel he doesn’t want to see anyone because he has “blood eyes”. Elena gets pissed and barges into his room and tells him off. But she has to admit he does look demonic. Still, she assures him she doesn’t care if he remains that way. He tells her he saw Billy but doesn’t want to talk about where he was.

Blake tells her he has to get back to Aidan and asks her to come with him. He’ll use magic to transform their appearance. He wants to find out whose still alive. He has to get word to Elena’s father (and his men) that help is coming. He says he wants to go back in two weeks during the feast. The feast is moved up and Blake is called back to Aidan early. Meanwhile, Elena tries to find out what the hidden ingredient is. Later, Elena has a mightmare about the Saudine killing Blake and then he’s there. They agree that they should take some tranquilizers. Elena goes in to get more people out of Aidan and Blake joins her. This time they’ll go to Sovereign in disguise. They’ll have dung balls with messages inside. When they get there they split up. Blake sees Elena’s father’s men and allow him to spit the dung balls into their carraiges. Then they push him away. One of the guards calls out to them, but they escape into a empt y store, but then Blake’s watch catches there attention. Blake uses his blend to become invisible. Afterwards he says he knows who the men are. Becky’s father is one of them.

When they get back one of King Helmet’s men is killed with a message. “No one is save” in (Ybeck?). Elena thinks this means Paul is back. Again Elena and Blake practice the transfer but don’t get any results. He goes to speak tto Longwei. Elena learns the next day they spoke about starting a campaign. Weeks go by. Longwei assigns Elena a guard Raymond), Sone of the dragons come back from the other side. Elena finds o ut from a classmate that a certain plant that can bear poisonous fruit is the missing ingredient. Elena starts to notice Blake starts to cut their trainings short. She confronts him about it at lunch. After she leaves, the others tell him he should tell her before she finds out. Elena hears something about him helping her when she overheard him talking to Geroge. Later she hears Tabitha crying and talking to a girl and telling her (her) brother has gone missing. (Bill) and Blake can’t track him. Blake tells her this not much later. Becky and Sammy don’t trust Tabitha and make Elena feel slightly insecure. At a charity function, Elena makes a speech for donations to Aidan. After this while Elena looks at a statue of herself next to her parents in the museum, Blake shows images of her parents. Elena wants tBlake to use this ability to show her the dent, but he tells her it doesn’t work that way. Elena notices how sad and sick her mother looks. She becomes angered thining of all the things (Goran?) took from her. Blake tells her its in the past and anger won’t win the war. He now knows how to tramsfer their powers (through the emotion love.

Blake finds out Tabitha lied about her brother and they argue. Tabitha tries to seduce Blake but Elena comes to the door with a plant. Blake sends Elena back to her room, but then Tabitha clears her throat.. Elena starts to cry and runs out of the room. Blake tries to plead with her that it’s not what it looks like. She tells him to stay away from her. He tries to follow her but a force pushes him back. Tabitha is all to happy about this and says she must not trust him that much. Blake kicks Tabitha out (and pushes her out the window). Blake starts to avoid Elena. Becky and George fight over Geroge taking up for Blake. Tabitha comes up to Elena and tells her she hopes she’s happy. Blake isn’t speaking to her now. Becky stays mad at Geroge because of something he wants to help Blake do and Samantha gets quiet and stops defending Blake. George tells Elena he’s going to the Dragon League with Blake and gives Elena a letter from Blake. Elena gets on Becky’s case for getting mad about something so minor. Becky pleads with Geroge to stay but he and Blake depart. Blake’s letter asks why doesn’t she believe him. The final exams come and go. Elena wonders how Tabitha got his room. Elena fins out when there’s a special demonstration for a new suit custom made for dragons and riders that Blake designed the suits.

Summer arrives. Elena involves herself with the campaign, apperances, and interviews. hile Blake is at the Dragon League. Elena asks Emanuel to be her body guard. Elena shows Sammy the letter and she says it’s not Blake’s handwriting. It’s Tabitha’s. Elena meets with Tabitha. She says she was trying to write a wrong. She pleads with Elena to give him another chance. She says she doesn’t think she can. Tabitha says she wants him to be happy even if it’s not with her. Then she leaves. Elena asks Emmanuel for some tips for the campaign and the speeches she’ll have to give. He goes to Blake and *he* gives Emmanuel the tips to give to Elena. O Elena doesn’t recognize the hand writing but thinks it’s beautiful and teases Emmanuel about it. Emmanuel let’s Blake now this time he should stayed and fought but Blake says he knows Elena.

The campaign doesn’t go well. People are more interested in where Blake is and even throw rocks at Elena in Ari. Elena finds a journal of Blake’s but its locked. She finally opens it using Blake’s pink Dragon kiss flame. Elena realizes it’s not a diary. It’s a book of Blake’s poems. The poems show Blake’s dark side in full (his love for killing). There are also thing in it about Tabitha and Irene. Then wer’re “Treated” to a lot of Blake’s poems. At her birthday celebration, (Emmanuel?) helps Elena say that the reason Blake didn’t fight was that he ordered him to stay away from her and he physically couldn’t come near her. Backy, Emmanuel, and Elena decide to go to the Dragon League. It’s the last poem about her that changes her mind from never wanting anything to do with Blake. Blake is guarding a flag (which represents Elena and Becky) and they have to get the flag away from them. Blake’s team wins. Sammy scolds Blake for not letting Elena win just once. Elena tells Blake she found the journal and says she’d been an idiot. Elena gets a dragon skin bracelet (from Blake’s own skin) for her 19th birthday. After this Becky and Elena have to leave.

Elena follows “Gerry” who she catches doing a spell and then bumps into “Taylor”. She finds out “Taylor” is Nora and “Gerry” is Paul. Blake expresses his suspicions about Taylor to Emmanuel. Then Gerry had a green flame just like Paul. Gerry and Nora have killed a mermaid Elena knows and taken her power. Elena tells him to get on with it. He takes out a knife but Blakearrives then and keeps him from digging it in. Nora is taken down by Emmanuel. Eventually after irrogating Paul, Blake snaps Paul’s neck. Then he burns him. He finds out from Paul Warren knows there coming, When Elena reveals on a tv interview her father is still alive, Blake’s dad immediately tries to fly over the wall, but luckily Blake is able to pull him back and tells him they have a plan. Blake’s father gives them four weeks for war. Elena gets the suit done in white since the vision showed Blake dying in a black suite. Becky becomes MIA. It’s discovered that there’s something in Elena’s blood which could possibly kill the Creepers. They’ll use it in bombs. Before the battle, Elena confides to Becky (on a get away) that she doesn’t know what the hidden ingredient is and that either she or Blake will die. She tells her to just keep on breathing. Blake later tells her it’s their love. Becky says she’ll know when the time comes.

(Skipping ahead) Elena realizes that the ingredient is her blood and Blake’s blood after Gorran’s lightning causes her to fall in a pit and Blake leaps in after her. As she weilds her axs, she heads toward the Saudine. Elena is hit by Earrows. The two Kings plan to go in and take out (Gorran?) but the castle is full of enchantments. Helmet blames Elena for Lucian’s deth and is about to kill her but it’s really Corn. Blake, Emmanuel, and Helmet try desperately to break the spell. Elena then figures it out. (Goran and Helmet are twins). Tabitha sacrifices herself. (This happens after the Saudine grabs Blake and they fight). One of the ax’s hit the Saudine and he transforms but another arrow hits Elena. Then she sees her dead.(He was the Sauine). When Blake gets to Elena she’s died. Blake gives Elena a piece of his heart (essence) and she awakens. She’s in a white room and discovers that every since she was born up until the day her father was killed Blake was there with her all along. (unseen). Blake goes to find his orbs. A month later, Elena awakens with her senses heightened. She and her father reunite, She feels likeHemet killed Gorn and he got killed in the process. His wife committed suicide. He tells her Blake killed the ones who raped her. Tabitha flew into the creepers with a bomb attached to her. A lot of the others die. A whyborn killed Dean. Peter also died (Tabitha’s dragon). Elena’s dad disassembles the council and its unimous a new one will be formed. Eventually Elena’s father and Constance marry and Blake retuns and sings at the wedding. With his orbs he lets Eleana say her goodbyes to Cara, her real father, and her mother.


My Thoughts
ENTIRELY TOO LONG! What made this book DRAG was 90 percent of this book is Elena and Blake drama! It’s SOOO MUCH BACK AND FORTH. I felt like I was watching a reality series. First she resents him because she doesn’t rrust the dent. Then they can’t get enough of each other. Then he disappears. Then he comes back. ON and ON and ON! It’s TIRING! !! I’m over Blake and Elena. I know there are two more follow up books but at this point I’m REALLY not looking forward to even starting those. Hopefully they’ll follow a whole DIFFERENT format.

The other 10 percent was about getting people in and out of Aidan (Ethan?) which wasn’t necessary all that intereting to read about either. Also about finding the missing ingredient. I’m just glad it was their *blood* rather than their love because that would have been soooo corny, but hey why not? It couldn’t have made it any worse.


Only about 5 percent of the plot was spent on the actual war. I kinda hate when books do this. Spend most of the book building up to something big, waste it on unnecessary drama, and then give an ending that’s over in a little more than a paragragh. Making you wonder why you even read the book in the first place and it’s not even that it was a *bad* ending. It’s just that it felt *skimpy”. There were characters throwin in that I didn’t remember. I blame this on the huge gap because reading the last two and the previous ones. Characters like Cara and Arianna who I know were important in the previous books but not so important I want to re-read those books so basically I’m just ready to end this series. I’ll finish the last books, but the other sequels after it I’m just not interested enough in to continue on with.

Rating: 5

[Lilith1323 · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars!

I will end this series with this book.
I don't care about the "what ifs" because usually you can't change the past.