The Dragon Keep

Seeds of Magic Book #2

by Marti Dumas, Stephanie Parcus (Illustrator)

Ten-year-old Jackie needs to learn to control her dragon familiar, but what she finds is a mountain full of secrets that will lead her to her destiny.

344 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 13, 2019

About the author

Writer:
Marti Dumas is a native New Orleanian with a passion for storytelling. When she is not teaching or parenting, she is reading or writing. She prefers to do some combination of the above within view of ancient oak trees or the banks of the river. Or both.

Narrator:
For over a decade Marti has narrated and produced audio books for use in educational settings, using her melodic voice to captivate audiences of children and adolescents. More recently, her honeyed tones have been featured in radio plays and television spots, and her first commercially available audio books were released in December of 2012.

Marti is a bel canto trained mezzo soprano and a versatile vocal performer, with a wide dramatic range and more than 20 years of experience in the performing arts. She speaks English and French, and works in a variety of accents and dialects.

Reviews

[Farah Mendlesohn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sequel to Jupiter Storm, this is a very different book. It remains some of the best character fiction I've read in a very long time (I am exhausted by the interchangabilty of protagonists in some fantasy). She totally nails childhood jealousy, competition and jockeying for primacy at the age of the protagonists, as friendship becomes less coincidental and more chosen.

What struck me tho' is how very scary this book was. It's not that it's not age suitable, it is. It's that Dumas has a very clear understanding of what scary actually is when you are a child, and it's the monsters you are expected by the adults in your life to respect and obey.