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5th Compass #1
Daxton
Daxton’s life was ideal. He spent his time blissfully hunting and roaming in the backwoods with his best friend Barton, and his beloved dog, Fang.
But on his eighteenth birthday, his parents reveal a startling fact: they aren’t his birth parents, he was abandoned on their doorstep as a baby left with nothing but a note, a sword, and a compass.
Daxton hurls himself towards his fate on a search for answers, accompanied by Barton and a witch who knows far more than she’s telling. Meanwhile, a king is waging war against the most hated female pirate in Stonehaven - the swashbuckling Silverblade, and Daxton is about to be swept right into the very center of it.
With an exciting and colorful cast, Daxton is a story of friendship, of thrilling action and adventure on the high seas, and of treasure not buried but hidden.
But on his eighteenth birthday, his parents reveal a startling fact: they aren’t his birth parents, he was abandoned on their doorstep as a baby left with nothing but a note, a sword, and a compass.
Daxton hurls himself towards his fate on a search for answers, accompanied by Barton and a witch who knows far more than she’s telling. Meanwhile, a king is waging war against the most hated female pirate in Stonehaven - the swashbuckling Silverblade, and Daxton is about to be swept right into the very center of it.
With an exciting and colorful cast, Daxton is a story of friendship, of thrilling action and adventure on the high seas, and of treasure not buried but hidden.
- GenresFantasy
438 pages, Paperback
First published April 8, 2019
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About the author
Erica L. Drayton
12 books22 followersErica L. Drayton was born in the Bronx in NYC. She began writing stories almost immediately after she learned how to read and write from her mother, a former English teacher. As a gay, black, woman, Erica used storytelling as a way to express her feelings through poetry and fantasy novels at a young age.
After college, she took her continued passion for storytelling and developed it further, into writing short stories, eventually challenging herself to write 100 word stories.
She lives with her wife, young son, two dogs, and eight chickens in the Capital Region in Upstate New York.
After college, she took her continued passion for storytelling and developed it further, into writing short stories, eventually challenging herself to write 100 word stories.
She lives with her wife, young son, two dogs, and eight chickens in the Capital Region in Upstate New York.
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October 4, 2019Read and reviewed for SPFBO5 (2019) as part of The Fantasy Team: https://fantasy-hive.co.uk/2019/08/sp...
I had high hopes for Daxton, but this wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. As a reader, I savour turn of phrase in dialogue and terminology when describing things to anchor myself to the story, but when these are misused (i.e. nautical terms in the case of Daxton) I find myself thrown out of the scene. When a story is really strong, or the characters especially compelling, I can look past the minor details and things like punctuation and spelling, but in this case it’s a narrr and not a yarrr from me.
I had high hopes for Daxton, but this wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. As a reader, I savour turn of phrase in dialogue and terminology when describing things to anchor myself to the story, but when these are misused (i.e. nautical terms in the case of Daxton) I find myself thrown out of the scene. When a story is really strong, or the characters especially compelling, I can look past the minor details and things like punctuation and spelling, but in this case it’s a narrr and not a yarrr from me.
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