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Dragons of Andela #1
Harness the Fire
Life wasn't easy on Andela. If you happen to be a fire dragon, like Zeira, status in the eyes of your peers is everything. However, when you possess a unique delivery system for your pyrotechnical abilities, public gatherings become situations to avoid.
When an unknown force begins to threaten the peace they have with their neighbors, Zeira decides to answer her king's call for help. After all, if she could just find herself a kai, then perhaps, with the help of her rider, she could overcome her ... disability, and earn the status she so desperately craved. The only problem was, where was she supposed to find one of the elusive bipeds?
Setting out on a mission to find herself a rider, Zeira defies advice and logic and heads north, out of her home region. With the danger of Fading weighing heavily on her mind, Zeira encounters other dragons with similar plights, but nothing could prepare her for what's waiting for them out there!
When an unknown force begins to threaten the peace they have with their neighbors, Zeira decides to answer her king's call for help. After all, if she could just find herself a kai, then perhaps, with the help of her rider, she could overcome her ... disability, and earn the status she so desperately craved. The only problem was, where was she supposed to find one of the elusive bipeds?
Setting out on a mission to find herself a rider, Zeira defies advice and logic and heads north, out of her home region. With the danger of Fading weighing heavily on her mind, Zeira encounters other dragons with similar plights, but nothing could prepare her for what's waiting for them out there!
- GenresDragons
275 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 31, 2021
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About the author
Jeffrey M. Poole
44 books231 followersJeffrey M. Poole is a professional writer living in picturesque southwestern Oregon with his wife Giliane, and their dog, Kinsey the corgi. He is the best-selling author of cozy mystery series Corgi Case Files and of fantasy series Bakkian Chronicles, Tales of Lentari, and the Dragons of Andela. He is presently plotting out his seventeenth mystery novel and writing his fifteenth fantasy novel.
Jeffrey’s interests include astronomy, archaeology, archery, scuba diving, collecting movies, and tinkering with any electronic gadget he can get his hands on.
Proud member of:
SFWA - Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
MWA - Mystery Writers of America
In September, 2020, the Corgi Case Files mystery series was picked up by Columbine Publishing Group and published under its mystery imprint, Secret Staircase Books. Beginning in 2023, all three fantasy series will also be published under the Secret Staircase Books imprint.
Fans can follow Jeffrey online at www.AuthorJMPoole.com or on Facebook at: Facebook.com/BakkianChronicles.
Jeffrey’s interests include astronomy, archaeology, archery, scuba diving, collecting movies, and tinkering with any electronic gadget he can get his hands on.
Proud member of:
SFWA - Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
MWA - Mystery Writers of America
In September, 2020, the Corgi Case Files mystery series was picked up by Columbine Publishing Group and published under its mystery imprint, Secret Staircase Books. Beginning in 2023, all three fantasy series will also be published under the Secret Staircase Books imprint.
Fans can follow Jeffrey online at www.AuthorJMPoole.com or on Facebook at: Facebook.com/BakkianChronicles.
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August 9, 2021
Amazing
Fantastic new series from a fantastic author. I have read everything he has written and absolutely love his books. He is one of a handful of my favorite.
Fantastic new series from a fantastic author. I have read everything he has written and absolutely love his books. He is one of a handful of my favorite.
February 9, 2022
I have mixed feelings about this.
On one hand, there is a plotline that even if not pioneering can make for a good story, a good level of world building, some funny parts.
On the other hand, everything seems to happen too fast and easily. Wether it is the action, the gathering of the group or the way Zeira overcomes her "condition".
About the latest, I don't feel it right that something that kept her mocked by her kin to the point her becoming a recluse, is overcome just so easily. This could have been leveraged to give substance to the character.
Before Zeira's first encounter, I was rather expecting a character the like of Marc Secchia's Blitz, a sympathetic draconic antihero you rapidly come to care for. Nothing of that sort happened.
So, overall for me, no thrill raised by the story or characters, nor urge keeping me reading even when I really gotta go.
On one hand, there is a plotline that even if not pioneering can make for a good story, a good level of world building, some funny parts.
On the other hand, everything seems to happen too fast and easily. Wether it is the action, the gathering of the group or the way Zeira overcomes her "condition".
About the latest, I don't feel it right that something that kept her mocked by her kin to the point her becoming a recluse, is overcome just so easily. This could have been leveraged to give substance to the character.
Before Zeira's first encounter, I was rather expecting a character the like of Marc Secchia's Blitz, a sympathetic draconic antihero you rapidly come to care for. Nothing of that sort happened.
So, overall for me, no thrill raised by the story or characters, nor urge keeping me reading even when I really gotta go.
June 29, 2022
Yes, there be Dragons!
Immerse yourself in a world of dragons! And better yet, from the dragons point of view.... Zeira has decided she wants a rider, and is convinced if she searches long enough she will find the perfect one! Her quest turns out to be a great adventure..... This was an entertaining read for me. Quite different from what I'm used to reading lately. Don't get me wrong, there is drama, action, friendship, some humorous dialogue and also some dragons who are good at ridiculing Zeira, but she persevered through the whole thing, and she does end up with some very good friends. But I think what was best of all is the personalities of the dragons. Be aware this book ends with a cliffhanger, but as far as I can tell there is only one more book to read so I'm ready to dive in!
Immerse yourself in a world of dragons! And better yet, from the dragons point of view.... Zeira has decided she wants a rider, and is convinced if she searches long enough she will find the perfect one! Her quest turns out to be a great adventure..... This was an entertaining read for me. Quite different from what I'm used to reading lately. Don't get me wrong, there is drama, action, friendship, some humorous dialogue and also some dragons who are good at ridiculing Zeira, but she persevered through the whole thing, and she does end up with some very good friends. But I think what was best of all is the personalities of the dragons. Be aware this book ends with a cliffhanger, but as far as I can tell there is only one more book to read so I'm ready to dive in!
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May 25, 2022Great story
The characters are so different they fit really well together. Can't wait for the next book. I have a feeling this adventure will be more exciting than the last.
The characters are so different they fit really well together. Can't wait for the next book. I have a feeling this adventure will be more exciting than the last.
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