Sarah Mac’s Reviews > Vengeance of Dragons > Status Update

It's not awful, but book 1 is better. This one kinda meanders around & has little to do with either skinshifting or the forbidden romance, which are the strongest elements of #1. I don't hate it, but at this point I'm just ready to be done & move on to something else.

CRISPIN: Ha! I win at life! The Mirror of Souls will make me an evul god of D00M!
MIRROR OF SOULS: Yeah...about that. Sorry, bro. But I'm waaaay more evul than you. My evulness boots your evulness in the ass with a cactus.
CRISPIN: ;_____;
ME: Heh. Ain't nobody gonna be the king of evul with a name like Crispin.

'His instincts told him to cut the thing loose--that he would regret claiming it. His heart told him to turn away, to go home content w/ the treasures from the ship's hold, to forget about the Mirror. Crispin wasn't in the habit of listening to his gut or his heart. If men were meant to listen to them, they wouldn't have minds. His mind told him that w/ the Mirror, he would be a god, & w/o it, he would be mortal.'

"Life is for the living. The dead made their choices & had their say while they still lived. Once they're dead, both their tongues & their edicts fall silent."

'The wind ruffled his hair, & the sun burnished the dark gold strands until they matched the heavy gold hoops in his ears. His pale blue eyes w/ their black-ringed irises seemed to pull her toward him, as if they exuded their own gravity. He was fiercely beautiful, as a wolf in his prime or a swooping falcon was beautiful--the air of barely leashed ferocity about him only made him more compelling.'

'He had thrown away his name, his Family, & his future for a stranger who was the born enemy of the Sabirs, a woman he had met in the flesh once, & that in a dark alley in front of the corpses of the men who would have killed her. He did not know if she could love him. He did know she had every reason to distrust him, & perhaps even to hate him.'