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Dragon Kin #5

The Final Two

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There are only four. The prophecy speaks of five.  They have time yet... until the Dragon Star sends visions of doom for the dragons across the waters and even those not called must be ready.

A small elf who has waited so very long for a dragon of her own prepares to do what she can to help her friends pack their bags and meet their destinies, and hides the terrible sadness in her own heart. She has not been chosen.

Then the dragon queen looks into Kellan's eyes and says the three words that will change everything.

It is time.

208 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 27, 2018

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32 reviews1 follower
January 28, 2019
Sadly after five books the ending did not make sense.

I liked the series but I was disapointed jy the ending which failed to resolve the time paradox. Really this was h major pdot point and not resolving it leaves the story unfinished.
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Author 2 books106 followers
November 1, 2021
I've been looking eagerly forward to this last book in the Dragon Kin series, and it was every bit as good as I had expected it to be. As always, with book involving time travel, there was the odd plothole here and there, but while I noticed them, I didn't mind, because the book itself was so delightful.

I was thrilled to finally see Kellan get to shine, and while I missed the every day life of the village, I loved seeing how the chosen 7 befriended and charmed the dragons of old.

Lovely completion to the series, and I finished it in just two sittings -- would still REALLY have liked a 6th book though, to describe life in the village afterwards.
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March 14, 2020
🎁 The complete Dragon Kin Series (5 book series) is FREE on Amazon today (3/14/2020)! 🎁
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238 reviews5 followers
August 22, 2020
Great series

I enjoyed every book in this series. Once again thank you to the author for writing something with hope, love and adventure. It’s nice to read books that give you a warm fuzzy feeling
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602 reviews
January 13, 2019
What a perfect ending to an excellent fantasy series! Quite a lot of mysteries are solved in this final installment: how will the chosen save the dragons of old? Will Kellan ever get a dragon of her own? Will Lovissa and her dragons ever be able to face a future where elves are not the enemy? Because I don't want to ruin the surprises in store for you, I will just say that all the answers are just as I hoped: perfect. I was sorry to see the series end but happy in the way that it did. And, knowing Audrey, I know that her newest series - out soon - will be just as good. Her work just continues to get better and better. If you are looking for a fantasy author that creates imaginative worlds that are character-centric and big with heart and personality, try something by Audrey Faye (I recommend starting with the Dragon Kin books, myself. They have been my favorite so far!)

My favorite quote:
" ::When you have faced your biggest fear and survived, missy, it does not haunt you anymore.::"
305 reviews3 followers
January 18, 2019
The first time you read a good book. You fly through it, intent on what happens next, fearing the end that's coming all too soon. Then when you read that same book or series a second time, you remember how much you liked it. You read a slower, softer path. With glints of things remembered and surprised at things not seen the first time. You are not in such a hurry, so you savor what you're reading more and better. All the really good books are like this. These are the ones we keep in our libraries. A good storytellers gift to us. I bid thee thanks, my fine Author, thanks for sharing your gifts with us.
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3,080 reviews18 followers
March 21, 2020
Dragon Heart Elf Heart

What a glorious series this was!!! I am very impressed with how these authors told their story! The characters were strong, the story hugely impressive and the plot old as humankind. Helping others. Too bad we have mostly forgotten how. This entire series is well worth your time and effort to read.

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What a glorious series this was!!! I am very impressed with how these authors told their story! The characters were strong, the story hugely impressive and the plot old as humankind. Helping others. Too bad we have mostly forgotten how. This entire series is well worth your time and effort to read.
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762 reviews6 followers
September 24, 2023
It is always nice to get back to old friends and this book lived up to my expectations. But since I'm never satisfied, I would like an extra book about the changed life in the village and how the chosen five live with their kin. The other books have focused of how each couple had to overcome their feelings of inadequacy. It would be nice to hear some everyday stuff about how they get around in everyday life.
17 reviews
January 1, 2019
Great series

This book was the.fifth in the series and was just as interesting as the first. Like the others it was difficult to put it down. I love the lessons of hope, strength and acceptance.
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459 reviews5 followers
January 13, 2020
A fun series that's quick and easy to read. I wasn't completely satisfied with this final book. There's a HUGE problem with not answering the whole time issue.

Basically the series is about the dragons/elves of the future trying to save the dragons from the past(who are at war with the elves).

Throughout the series the characters find ways to connect to the dragons in the past and since it was mostly through water speaking and dreams that worked for me. I honestly thought this was heading towards changing the past simply by teaching the dragons of old how to change.

It would've made sense. Here's some dragon/elf pairs and they're friends. In fact, the previous four books show that is happening. The dragons of old are learning to do new things, they've brokered a tentative peace with the elves. Their decisions to not attack when the elves are at their weakest leads the elves to start calling a ceasefire. Then the dragons start providing much needed food to the elves. Everything was slowly heading towards peace. No, it wasn't going to happen over night but it was clearly happening. Both sides were holding back on war and helping each other.

I thought okay, so it's a weird time loop where we help you get along with the elves and then you befriend each other and eventually move to our current location and in the future we have a happy community.

Instead it's "fly across the ocean for 2 days and you'll find the country we used to live in only it's also the past."

What?

No one is at all confused by the fact that flying to another continent just brought them to a time hundreds of years in the past. And then flying back puts everyone in the future!!! It doesn't make ANY sense. It doesn't explain how any of that is possible and it creates a huge timeline issue as um, are they going to then have all the same dragons that were born in the past be born in the future and eventually the present dragons will be born a second time in hundreds of years? Sooooo many paradox issues it's crazy.

So honestly, the whole route the last book took with "how are we going to help save them" was not only not the most sensible path but without any explanation it makes zero sense. Even with some other minor issues with this particular book, I found this to be the major one that really overshadows everything else.
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March 17, 2022
Let down

I blew through this entire series in 2 days. I absolutely adored Kellen, and anxiously awaited the book that would lead to her finding her dragon. The previous 4 books in this series were all one book dedicated to the finding and development of kin bonds between elves and dragons. And the final pair was to be Kellen, in this book. Instead of actually taking the time to properly build a bond between this elf girl and the ancient battle dragon who kills elves and hates them with this book and then finishing the series with a 6th to conclude the story line, it was all crammed into a mere 200 pages. It was a massive let down after the rest of the series.

I chose this series looking for something quick to read that would hold my interest, but I did become quite taken with the characters and the story being told. This final conclusion was confusing, smashed together, and seems like it was rushed to get it over with. For example: HOW does bringing the "dragons of old" (dragons literally born 25 generations ago and related to dragons living currently) into the present day to live to save them from a tsunami make any sense AT ALL?! Time Travel 101 says that's a no-no.

Nothing about the story line here makes any sense. They flew 2 days across an ocean, but somehow also managed to go back hundreds of years (with no clear explanation of how that actually happened or was possible). Just one of many things that really irked me regarding this final book. Was a pitiful ending to an otherwise delightful and fun series.
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361 reviews3 followers
October 19, 2021
All good things come an end

I really hated for this series to end! It's been quite an adventure.
I read a LOT of books by a lot of different authors. I've found many that are good at realistic dialogue, and creating characters you come to care about, but very few have the gift of making their characters come to life.
These authors create people you want to get to know, and spend time with. When you read the last word on the last page, you feel like you're losing friends.
Fortunately, you can always find them in the pages of their books anytime you want to visit them again.
I enjoyed this book as much as the other two. I would have loved at least one more that told us of the two groups of past and present dragons and elves working together to build a new life. I guess I'll have to write that one for myself in my imagination; or maybe in my dreams.
Waiting is over as things get real and the threat that has been looming over all their heads is imminent.
How are dragons who hate elves with a passion going to handle dealing with dragons who are kin with them? How are they all going to make it all the way over the vast sea; the hatchlings, the very young, the elders...and if they do, will they leave their fear and hatred behind, or will they bring it with them to poison their new home?
Read this terrific series and find out for yourself!
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137 reviews
May 23, 2020
I waffled a bit between 4 and 5 stars here, but ended up at 5 due to how much I love this series.

Yes, there are unanswered questions here and there, the biggest for me was the time traveling. I expected to see more of those left behind and what they faced, which was also a great disappointment to me. I really wanted to see more of the ancestors and their individual struggle with losing all they know and coming to terms with all that they will have. I also wanted to know more of the Queens and how they came to be what they are and what they can do, as it evolved a lot more here.

Kellen! It has been such a long time coming that I was beginning to question if a bond would happen for her. I was doing the happy dance. And Bariken, while not quite who I would have anticipated for her, is really an unexpected perfect fit.

Ultimately, the bottom line is I loved the book and was very sad to see the series come to an end.

Maybe someday we will have another look into this world that I have come to love. I would like to see how the village will evolve and change now. I would like to see how the different ones and their bonds make another change in their world.
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1,339 reviews67 followers
October 12, 2022
5 You. Will. Not. Take. Us. Stars

The Final Two is the fifth book in the Dragon Kin series by Audrey Faye.

I am so sad it is over. But I am so happy to see it completed. It has been a tumultuous building of dread to ponder what Lovissa was bracing for to strike at her dragons. I kept conjuring more elaborate traumas and tribulations. But I feel that this one feels truer to the tone of the story than anything that crossed my mind.

Kellan's eventual dragon bonding is as long-awaited as the great calamity that called for The Five, and threatened to end all of dragonkind. I am so content to see her finally manifesting her most coveted dreams, and standing so bravely. For one who thinks she is so small, she leads.

It was beautiful to watch Elf and Dragon come together. Bridge the divide of deep seated mistrust, scars of war that still eat at them, and face a perilous journey with very little more than faith to support their weary bodies. Further witness kin and dragon across time and great oceans conquer the laws of the universe to force their wills upon Fate.

The Final Two for as a title for this book is rather ironic..
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746 reviews
October 30, 2024
I really enjoyed this series and characters, although I was still waiting for the time loop to be resolved and was unsatisfied that it never was. How can the current dragons exist if the ones back in time were brought forward and stay there and the 25 generations in between them never exist? And so much time is spent revering the dragon queens, but we’re just ignoring the 25 in between that never get to be named except for the one just before Elhen, nor are they added to the mystical ash bowl… So while I thoroughly enjoyed the overall story and characters, the large time travel conundrum was completely ignored and never even acknowledged, and it could have taken just a few pages to resolve with something like saying they were delivered back in time at the new shores (except for the handful that were bonded across time that got to stay in the current time), and that’s how the current-day dragons came into existence from their ancestors.
146 reviews1 follower
June 15, 2020
Loved it

It starts off with the queen of the old dragons narrating. Then switches to modern times. (Well, modern times for the story.) And switches back & forth throughout the story.

I love how they show it's not easy for either dragon or kin. They have to work hard, independently & together, to learn & improve, and like life, it's always a work in progress.

The only problem I have is with the use of the word "kin". In my culture, it means relatative. Someone who came from the same gene pool. So every time dragon "kin" is mentioned, I keep thinking sibling, or cousin or aunt/uncle & try to figure out which dragon is being referred to. Sometimes it took me a while to remember. 😂

Anyway, I read all 5 books & loved them all. I was really happy with the outcome of this book.
31 reviews
January 14, 2020
I thoroughly enjoyed this series of books by Audrey Faye. The concept of Dragons and Elf Kin was a really good one. The characters were well thought out and I really enjoyed the interaction between the Elves and the Dragons. The concept of the trials, tribulations and joy of bonding with a dragon was great and at times made me laugh and shed a tear, all the ingredients for a good series. The idea of working together to save a species (dragons in this case) was wonderful and these books kept me enthralled and enchanted from the beginning. I can thoroughly recommend them to anyone who wants not only a good read but to be totally captivated by a completely enjoyable series with all the right ingredients of love, hope, friendship, drama and everything that goes along with it.
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11 reviews
November 13, 2022
Outstanding

I don't often read non romance anymore as I get older. However, I'm always up for a great adventure and fantasy. This series of books were extremely well written. Out of all of them I only caught a few grammatical errors, and those didn't take away from the story. I have to admit that I do occasionally get teary eyed from a book. The last book in this series dang near caused me to sob on my couch next to my 17 year old son. It pulled my heartstrings. Scratch that. It yanked those heartstrings. I read these books through Kindle Unlimited. I plan on buying hard copies as soon as I can financially do it. These will easily become a re-read series.
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307 reviews11 followers
September 7, 2024
2.5/5, rounded up because I'm happy for Kellan
Don't get me wrong, I really loved this series (although I thought Alonia & Trift's story could have been more fully developed) but this last installment made NO sense! It wasn't just a normal time paradox - you're going to get something of that nature any time you have time travel in your plot - but a complete lack of any continuity whatsoever! The way it was written, none of the "current" generation of dragons should even have existed. So many plot holes. The series feels unfinished, like they were just rushing to get the final book out so they could move on to other projects. Made me sad :/
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3,000 reviews12 followers
October 3, 2019
Very good series conclusion

I'm glad to finish the series. The best part is Kellen finally getting a dragon. The only bad part was that we didn't get any glimpse of how happy Kellen was for having a dragon. She waited years. Sapphire makes a sacrifice for Lotus, no spoilers you'll have to read the book. Very good ending especially acknowledging the grief and sadness of leaving a home land that gets destroyed.
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169 reviews2 followers
February 12, 2021
Lighthearted clean series

The way this author weaves her stories is enough to keep me interested no blood and romance required, that’s a high compliment. Her books make me want to be the best person I can be. The only thing I found confusing in this series is time. Is the dragon clan in the new lands family of the dragons of old that traveled away at some point? It’s the only explanation I can work out. If you liked this series try Bucky and the lukefahr ladies.
5 reviews
December 29, 2018
All five of the Dragon Kin books

I have enjoyed every one of the books. Each one is different and complete in itself but each one adds joyfulness to the previous one(s) in the set. The climax in the fifth one was a very satisfying yet somewhat unexpected conclusion. I reccommend that you read them all.
26 reviews1 follower
January 20, 2019
One of the best

I've read your books just in the past few days . One of the best dragon series I have read. Not many author put enough personally in the animals they make. I wonder if you have friends and family that are like your characters that sounds like fun times. Please write more books.
7 reviews
January 30, 2019
Faye as usual delivers

I have read so many books by this author and I remain in awe of her ability to make me care about her characters. Yes the action and storyline is great but her series Dragon Kin lets me laugh, cry and enjoy the characters beyond the action.
I would recommend her books to anyone who enjoys a well crafted story
ENJOY
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812 reviews7 followers
February 13, 2019
I loved this book and the story line. Audrey Faye writes a wonderful story that grabbed me from the very beginning and held my interest all the way through, not only this book but the entire series of five books. There is danger, changes but also love and adventure. I hate to see this series end but I can hardly wait for her next series to begin.
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70 reviews2 followers
June 6, 2019
Holy cow! Err maybe I should say dragon!

That was an awesome series! I really enjoyed it. There was no killing, sex, nor cusing and what an excellent story it was!

My hat's off to Audrey Faye, I sure appreciate an author that sticks to story telling without the all the Hollywood junk (sex, drugs, ect ect) used to sell a book nowadays.
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1,467 reviews53 followers
June 24, 2019
So sad it’s over

I really super enjoyed the tales of the chosen and the flight from the big wave! I loved all of the characters and I feel that this world could be bigger and maybe someday have more things to say! I will definitely check out the authors other series! These were such a delight to read!!
43 reviews
January 6, 2021
Another wonderful series

I have read all she has written and I look forward to the new series. I first read the witches books written by Deborah Geary who now writes as Audrey Faye. I so wish that series was still available so I could read all of the books again. I love all her books.
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1,203 reviews8 followers
April 1, 2022
Excellent book completing the story. I listened on audio and it was wonderful story time material. I could just listen and work on stuff and be entertained without a lot of work keeping up who was who. Good orator. This would be a great series to play for the young bit me in my 60’s enjoyed it as well.
28 reviews
April 16, 2023
A really good series

This well-written series is a solid story of bravery, acceptance, understanding, connecting and belonging, with very likable characters carrying the plot. It had me hooked from the very first book. Heartfelt, gentle, it offers universal lessons and a depth of wisdom that is refreshing. A good read for youth and adults alike...
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