It's like the start of a bad joke: a Master of Tomes, his apprentice, and ninety world-saving records get lost at sea.
Mei Li really wishes the joke wasn't her life. For two years she's been stranded in a remote village with no knowledge of where her master is or what's going on in the world. What she does know is one: she refuses to be sacrificed to the "god" the villagers think live on the mountain, two: she fully plans on negotiating with said "god" (who, luckily for her, turns out to be a dragon more than happy to rescue her).
Her relief over being rescued is short lived when she learns that her master is still lost, along with the tomes detailing how to reseal and fix all the upcoming problems for the next decade. And at least four world disasters are due to be prevented in the next two months. To make matters worse, the Tomes Masters are the only people in the world who carry the knowledge of how to reseal the pesky problems like five-thousand-year-old sleeping demons and disintegrating harbor walls.
With her master gone, everyone is looking to Mei Li for answers she doesn't have, but still has to procure. Her options are to solve the disasters—with high potential for the world ending—or somehow find Master and the missing tomes.
Right now, Mei Li wants to go back in time and punch her six-year-old self for being an idiot. Being able to read books all day is not worth the stress of dealing with ancient, evil things on a regular basis.
My Review:
Yeah, this book was so fantastic! The world was so interesting, and the characters were fantastic to read about, and yeah, Honor Raconteur just writes really addicting books. It's some combination of her writing and all the other listed above elements. I just love them so much!
This book, we're introduced to the world, to the characters, and shown that it's a pretty dire situation. Basically, once everything starts, it's a bit like they're chickens running around with their heads chopped off. There's just so much to do, and not a lot of knowledge of how to do it, that panic was fun to read!
One thing that was really interesting to me, was the fact that dragons have feathers in this book for wings. Which isn't the norm, at least that I can think of. Instead their wings are leather, basically, and scales. So that's interesting, especially since there's a bit of grooming that came into play in this book.
We were given a ton of hints of the future-which is the past for the older characters like Shunlei. And the one part does happen in this book, though right at the very end. I'm thinking that depending on the pacing, the next part, which almost certainly will happen, will be in the next few books. Maybe the next one, but I don't know...
This book was so fantastic, and I can't wait for the next book in the series!
Author: Honor Raconteur
Series: The Tomes of Kaleria #1
Read: February 21st, 2020
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really good, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2020 Book!
Publisher: Raconteur House LLC
Published: December 3rd 2019
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