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Kiss From A Dragon
A fantasy novel set in the fictional realm of Evorene.
Kiss From A Dragon centres around the three Proudstone sisters - Cerana, Jana and Esteri. The young women's lives are turned upside down when Esteri, the youngest sibling, mysteriously contracts an ancient and potentially deadly disease.
Enlisting the aid of a local apothecary to diagnose Esteri's harrowing condition, the sisters soon realise there is more to this disease than first meets the eye.
The mystery of how Esteri first contracted the disease gives way to an even greater problem - how to cure it. According to legend, the disease can only be cured using an ingredient found from the most impossible of sources - a dragon. The problem is, dragons have not been in existence for centuries.
As the family are forced apart in an attempt to find answers and source an unlikely cure, Cerana finds hope in the form of an enigmatic young woman following a chance encounter.
But the little hope Cerana clings onto is fraught with danger, and she soon discovers there is an even more terrifying story to the disease - one that will have dire consequences for the entire realm should she fail.
How can you treat a disease, when the cure has not been seen for centuries?
Kiss From A Dragon centres around the three Proudstone sisters - Cerana, Jana and Esteri. The young women's lives are turned upside down when Esteri, the youngest sibling, mysteriously contracts an ancient and potentially deadly disease.
Enlisting the aid of a local apothecary to diagnose Esteri's harrowing condition, the sisters soon realise there is more to this disease than first meets the eye.
The mystery of how Esteri first contracted the disease gives way to an even greater problem - how to cure it. According to legend, the disease can only be cured using an ingredient found from the most impossible of sources - a dragon. The problem is, dragons have not been in existence for centuries.
As the family are forced apart in an attempt to find answers and source an unlikely cure, Cerana finds hope in the form of an enigmatic young woman following a chance encounter.
But the little hope Cerana clings onto is fraught with danger, and she soon discovers there is an even more terrifying story to the disease - one that will have dire consequences for the entire realm should she fail.
How can you treat a disease, when the cure has not been seen for centuries?
256 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 9, 2020
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February 27, 2022Okay I'm giving up (for now?) cause clearly this book ain't doing it for me. I've been reading it since June 2021 and I'm only a third of the way through...
June 15, 2020
First novel desperately seeks good editor for elimination of run-on sentences and adoption of active voice. Ability to offer guidance on writing authentic emotion and prevent hand-waving a plus.
This novel was a slog to get through. It was heavily weighed down by male gaze. Trite situations, predictable actions and outcomes, and cliche scenery made the slog even worse. Add in outlandish wardrobe choices, suddenly acquired talents, unbelievable antagonists, non-existent consequences and bizarre physics?
I'm still not sure why I finished the book - I think part of me kept hoping for a some sort of redemption that failed to materialize. It had to get better, right? No.
I'm normally not so harsh on first time authors, but there was so much wrong with this book. I especially took issue with an entirely unnecessary humiliating sequence of events to which one of the female characters, Jana, was subjected. I could not read it as anything other than gratuitous sexual cruelty featuring bondage and near rape. Were readers meant to think the perpetrator was evil? That was telegraphed from the moment they were introduced.
I give Kiss From a Dragon two stars because a.) I did finish it; b.) I was compelled to find out if all my predictions about the plot were correct; c.) it was just too fun to mock while reading out loud; and d.) the author's mistakes fueled a rousing discussion of writing as a craft.
This novel was a slog to get through. It was heavily weighed down by male gaze. Trite situations, predictable actions and outcomes, and cliche scenery made the slog even worse. Add in outlandish wardrobe choices, suddenly acquired talents, unbelievable antagonists, non-existent consequences and bizarre physics?
I'm still not sure why I finished the book - I think part of me kept hoping for a some sort of redemption that failed to materialize. It had to get better, right? No.
I'm normally not so harsh on first time authors, but there was so much wrong with this book. I especially took issue with an entirely unnecessary humiliating sequence of events to which one of the female characters, Jana, was subjected. I could not read it as anything other than gratuitous sexual cruelty featuring bondage and near rape. Were readers meant to think the perpetrator was evil? That was telegraphed from the moment they were introduced.
I give Kiss From a Dragon two stars because a.) I did finish it; b.) I was compelled to find out if all my predictions about the plot were correct; c.) it was just too fun to mock while reading out loud; and d.) the author's mistakes fueled a rousing discussion of writing as a craft.
June 23, 2020
I enjoyed reading Kiss From a Dragon, by C. D. Pennington and would rate it a 3.5. This book is a fantasy set in Eveorein where three Proudstone sisters live. When one of the sisters becomes desperately ill from an ancient disease, the other two siblings are forced to set out on a mission to find a cure.
I found the characters appealing and felt the story flowed well. There were several surprises in the story that I liked, and would love to read more about the Proudstones should there be a sequel. There a few editing errors, but they didn’t take me out of the story.
I am very grateful to the author and publisher for the Kindle book I received through Goodreads Giveaways.
I found the characters appealing and felt the story flowed well. There were several surprises in the story that I liked, and would love to read more about the Proudstones should there be a sequel. There a few editing errors, but they didn’t take me out of the story.
I am very grateful to the author and publisher for the Kindle book I received through Goodreads Giveaways.
August 27, 2022
Like reading a story written by a promising student. It's engaging enough that I did finish it, but has some significant issues with pacing and style - characters talking like modern teenagers despite a general "high fantasy" effort in the narrative etc. Oh, and the villain lives in an actual volcano like a cut price Bond villain.
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August 24, 2020
Three sisters who seem to have an ideal life together with a strong bond between the three. We all know nothing ever stays the same for long. The youngest gets sick and the other sisters seek advise and go on a search for a cure only to fall into more trouble....I liked the character's and can empathize with them having 3 other sisters myself. Thought it was a great adventure but think you could have left out the scene in the pit with the one brother...and you would have been able to add a YA genre label to the story.
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