Alonica: Rise of the Dragon Heirs

by G.M. Kelso

After ten years of training, Zintare returns home to find out his home has been destroyed and his father had perished in what was known as the last battle of The Dragon Wars.

When he meets with an old acquaintance, he is led to the Dragon Spine Mountains to finish his training from a new mentor.

Finding out from his mentor, that he is half dragon and needs to follow a certain path, Zintare must decide which. That path of his reptilian kin, which leads to power and glory over Alonica, or that of his human kin, which leads to honor.

The fate of Alonica rests in his hands.

386 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 26, 2016

About the author

G.M. Kelso, Author of the Alonica Series was born and raised in Houston, Texas where he began his love for the fantasy worlds at a young age. He served in the USNavy for four years and got out with an honorable discharge. Afterwards he worked odd jobs until he was diagnosed with stage IV cancer at the young age of 37. While fighting the disease, with the help of family and friends, he let his mind enter a world and began writing to give him a strong since of purpose for fighting. Out of this fight came the world of Alonica. Alonica: Rise of the Dragon Heirs won 2018 Book Cover of the Year while Alonica: Splitting Heirs has won March 2019 Book Cover of the Month with the Houston Writer’s Guild. Greg continues to work on the series along with more stories he feels are waiting to be told. One thing he does strive on is assisting other writers reach their goals of getting published.

Reviews

[Thomas Maher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read

There a lot of plot twist in the book. I loved the dragons but hated how they were always human or evil when they should be good and in true form. This book would of been perfect for male human and full non human female dragon. Sadly it just ended up human to human even if they were half dragons or dragons. Plot was well written and few mistakes and forgotten letters but nothing that that bad. Maybe book 2 will fix that? There a lot of open ends and cliff hangers. Very sad what happened to some people and some dragons and their mates. Why did they separate? They should have stayed together and helped from behind scenes and enjoy their love. Also sad there was no riding dragons and being bonded and connected to them. Maybe in time other races will realize that dragons are good and only a few if any are bad.

[Jenna Whittaker · Rating 5 out of 5]

An awesome read! The cast of characters is well developed, and the complex plot keeps you guessing til the end!

[Tia Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this story of high fantasy about five friends; who take a journey together to save Alonica from the grip of evil dragons. My favorite part of the book was the characters and how they came together from different races that don't usually get along, to achieve the same goal and becoming strong friends through their journey. My second favorite part of this book was the dragons. Even though the dragons are different from the other races, it is interesting to see the world from their viewpoints and see their schemes; whether it be for the benefit of Alonica or the benefit of themselves.

[Linda Woods · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice first effort !!

Not bad for a first novel! The characters are interesting and the plot moves along nicely. Give us another, please!!!