A review by paula_s
The Dragon's Promise, by Elizabeth Lim
4.0
I read this book from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review
From a spoiled princess to an incredibly brave and resourceful woman. Shiori’s journey in “The Dragon’s Promise” picks up immediately after the events in the first book. It’s not much I can tell without spoiling that wonderful book (which you should read) so let’s say that because of what happened our heroine Shiori and her paper crane companion Kiki follow their friend Syriu, the young water dragon, to the Dragon King’s realm deep under the sea. The must find the ‘Wraith’, and return its heart-pearl. I can’t tell you how that precious yet dark pearl happens to be in Shiori’s hand but it belongs to the dragon and she was told to give it back, leaving her six brothers and Takkan back home in Kiata. She must be quick because time runs differently in the deep blue sea, much slower than in the human realm.
In this book Shiori will meet new friends and foes and she will have to be brave and smarter than the Dragon King Nazayun and his court of marine fauna. There’s magic in her but that doesn’t guarantee that she will succeed in her mission and there is still darkness under the mountains back home which may or may not be restrained.
This book is darker than the previous one, for the perils Shiori and Kiki find along their journey are difficult and quite dangerous. The tension is almost overwhelming for them and the reader can feel themself more and more engaged in the story. Shiori can trust no one in the dragon realm with the exception of her loyal companion; the dragons and the demons are wondrous creatures but they are also twisted and untruthful and terrifying. Once again Elizabeth Lim delivers an utterly compelling story, masterfully crafted and mesmerizing. She’s like one of the storytellers of old and I need to read everything she’s written in the past and whatever she writes from now on.
Magic, myths, legends and untrustworthy creatures. All set in a fantasy world with a beauty that comes from the east and Studio Ghibli, sometimes. I couldn’t put his book down until I finished it. It is the second and final book of a bilogy, one in which Shiori, Takkan, and her brothers grow, mature, and become a true family with unbreakable bonds and faithful loyalty that will resist and vanquish everything, even death.
From a spoiled princess to an incredibly brave and resourceful woman. Shiori’s journey in “The Dragon’s Promise” picks up immediately after the events in the first book. It’s not much I can tell without spoiling that wonderful book (which you should read) so let’s say that because of what happened our heroine Shiori and her paper crane companion Kiki follow their friend Syriu, the young water dragon, to the Dragon King’s realm deep under the sea. The must find the ‘Wraith’, and return its heart-pearl. I can’t tell you how that precious yet dark pearl happens to be in Shiori’s hand but it belongs to the dragon and she was told to give it back, leaving her six brothers and Takkan back home in Kiata. She must be quick because time runs differently in the deep blue sea, much slower than in the human realm.
In this book Shiori will meet new friends and foes and she will have to be brave and smarter than the Dragon King Nazayun and his court of marine fauna. There’s magic in her but that doesn’t guarantee that she will succeed in her mission and there is still darkness under the mountains back home which may or may not be restrained.
This book is darker than the previous one, for the perils Shiori and Kiki find along their journey are difficult and quite dangerous. The tension is almost overwhelming for them and the reader can feel themself more and more engaged in the story. Shiori can trust no one in the dragon realm with the exception of her loyal companion; the dragons and the demons are wondrous creatures but they are also twisted and untruthful and terrifying. Once again Elizabeth Lim delivers an utterly compelling story, masterfully crafted and mesmerizing. She’s like one of the storytellers of old and I need to read everything she’s written in the past and whatever she writes from now on.
Magic, myths, legends and untrustworthy creatures. All set in a fantasy world with a beauty that comes from the east and Studio Ghibli, sometimes. I couldn’t put his book down until I finished it. It is the second and final book of a bilogy, one in which Shiori, Takkan, and her brothers grow, mature, and become a true family with unbreakable bonds and faithful loyalty that will resist and vanquish everything, even death.