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Dragonfall

By L. R. Lam
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A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! 

The bestselling first book in the Dragon Scales duology, in which long-banished dragons, revered as gods, return to the mortal realm.

Dragonfall is a slowburn, smoldering romance between a thief and the last male dragon who are drawn together by prophecy and an ancient artifact with the power to break the world.


Recommended by USA TODAY for readers of dragon-filled fantasy and Fourth Wing

"In Dragonfall, Lam has forged a fresh and intricate world, a smoldering romance, and a fire-new take on dragons." —Samantha Shannon, New York Times-bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree
 
"What you will find here may be exactly what you love in fantasy: Dragonfall is an intriguing blend of magic, a thief, trickery, and an unexpected dragon." —Robin Hobb, New York Times-bestselling author of Fool’s Assassin

"Dragonfall is a romance fantasy like you've never read before. A queer-norm world with new ways of telling tales, L. R. Lam is breaking boundaries and binaries yet again with a brilliant fantasy book that you won't want to miss." —Hannah Kaner, #1 Sunday Times-bestselling author of Godkiller

Long ago, humans betrayed dragons, stealing their magic and banishing them to a dying world. Centuries later, their descendants worship dragons as gods. But the "gods" remember, and they do not forgive. 

Thief Arcady scrapes a living on the streets of Vatra. Desperate, Arcady steals a powerful artifact from the bones of the Plaguebringer, the most hated person in Lumet history. Only Arcady knows the artifact's magic holds the key to a new life among the nobles at court and a chance for revenge. 

The spell connects to Everen, the last male dragon foretold to save his kind, dragging him through the Veil. Disguised as a human, Everen soon learns that to regain his true power and form and fulfil his destiny, he only needs to convince one little thief to trust him enough to bond completely--body, mind, and soul—and then kill them.

Yet the closer the two become, the greater the risk both their worlds will shatter.

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Surprised Face with Open Mouth“I have SO many thoughts about this book. Overall, it is a good book, but it falls short in so many ways. This is a fantasy book, and yet its magic system is not explained well, and it doesn’t really have many rules (other than, please eat enough after doing magic). Many times spells are just thought or told to us rather than spoken, and yet in pivotal moments they seem to have to be spoken. People have awareness of wards and magic, but there isn’t really a hard system to it. The world building is also, not memorable. I can tell you the names of the three countries, but I honestly don’t know what Vatra is. It kept getting mentioned at the end and I was just like, dang, I’m reading this book and I can’t even remember things I read this same week. There’s a ton of great descriptions throughout the book but I felt like they weren’t unique enough to help me feel that this place was alive or lived in. I can’t tell you what kind of societal era they are in because I truly don’t remember. There are city gates, towers, castles, hills, caves, towns. They use ships as the main transport. All these things are kind of generic fantasy-esque. The romance, also, was not needed. I am not a person who cares for romance in their fantasy books, and this romance wasn’t even well done or needed here. Indeed, even in the end, Everen mentions that it was possible all they needed was blood to cement their bond, not love. The ending parts of the book don’t even use the romance, but rather the trust and bond built up throughout the book from the shared learning, backstory, and experience. The tension of trust could have been done better without the consistent use of HEAT between the characters to symbolize their silly little romance. Which brings me to another point, the repetition of certain words. Everybody in this story HISSES in pain. What sort of human hisses all the time! Dragons, sure. But I just kept imagining cats hissing all the time. Lots of sparks of tension between our main characters. Lots of heat between skin. For a 300 page book, I felt the repetition could have been used so much better to describe feelings or world build or so much more. Backstory! I want to know more about Arcady’s past! Also, this book is called Dragonfall, and yet we get a scant few pages with dragons in them! Ludicrous! Stuck in a human form or humanoid/dragon form for the majority of the book. It just feels like a let down. BUT, a big but, the ending chapters of this book are so well done. An avalanche of information is thrown at you, and the final cementing of the bond and the veil ripping are beautiful chapters. The ending twist as well is masterful, and it leaves us with many questions. I’m not a huge fan of cliffhangers, and I really think this book could have been much much longer. If it was meant to be epic fantasy, this would have been only the first few parts of a book that stretches for 5 or so. But I’ll take it! The ending was heartfelt, beautiful, but I do wonder why Everen had to go back at the end. It was fate, he said. We shall only wait and see. And! I really enjoyed the originality of bringing a fantasy heist to life. The majority of the book focuses on this heist as the main point to get Arcady to school to then figure out the plaguebringer things. I liked how this brought them closer together, and the way it went wrong and turned out was a clever way to reveal the dragons to Arcady. It being entangled into this prophecy process and the whole fantasy setting was very unique. All in all, this was a hard one to sink into. I truly didn’t get hooked until 50-60% in. And especially when the romance started at around 20-30%, I was trying not to roll my eyes every chapter. But the storytelling and plot of the book are sound, and well done. So I’m unsure how to really feel about the start of this series.”
FormulaicLikeableMultilayeredClever plottingMagicalClunkyEasy to readOriginalRepetitive

About L. R. Lam

L.R. Lam was first Californian and now Scottish. Lam is the Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author of Dragonfall (the Dragon Scales trilogy), the Seven Devils duology (co-written with Elizabeth May), Goldilocks, the Pacifica novels, and the award-winning Micah Grey trilogy, which begins with Pantomime.

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