Realm of Dragons (Age of the Sorcerers, #1)

by Morgan Rice

“Merely that the Northern Kingdom recognize the truth: that it is, and has always been, a part of the greater kingdom ruled by the kings of the south.” Godwin heard the renewed gasp that went around the room.

Lol why would you send an itty bityy noble to make a statement like that? That didn't make any sense. Especially as seen as a "gift" for a fellow king's daughter. Usually you would make threats like that at war negotiations or something. I dont even have a degree in history and i know this WTF???

His father wasn’t going to listen, wasn’t going to act. That meant that Rodry had to do it. Rodry had to be the kind of man who would act to defend his kingdom and his sister from these insults.

Rodry plzzzzz 🙄

“If you draw that—” the ambassador began. Rodry’s sword sang from its sheath.

🙄

Besides, he didn’t need their help for this. He was a Knight of the Spur, and they were not.

Sure

“These are the consequences of your actions. My father was right. What are you going to do? March an army half a dozen at a time across one of the bridges? You came here to do nothing but insult, and I’m going to show you up for the fool you are.”

Uh... Rodry didn't you just see a dragon a couple days ago. Now's not the time to be starting shit.

“Manhandle a dead body?” one of his friends, Kay, said. He made a face. “We’re noblemen, Rodry.”

Oh boo hoo

“That would impress her…” Kay mused aloud. “May I take the ambassador’s horse?”

Kay will be coming back in a body bag

He had heard the stories of the past, of the conflicts that had shaped the two kingdoms, of knights and dragons and more.

And you dont heed any of what those stories are trying to tell you????

when there was a threat to the kingdom, a strong man always rose to fight against those enemies and drive them back. Well, today, Rodry had been that man.

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Let the south play at war. Rodry was strong enough to keep them all safe.

Suuuuuurrree

“Your majesty?” Devin said. “Have you heard of star metal?”

The Valerian steel of this world, i see

Rodry said. “I mentioned it once to Master Grey and he refused to speak of it. The stories…”

You didn't seem to care much about stories last chapter you weakbrained bigot™

“If it’s given to her directly, it doesn’t form part of her bride price, and it comes back to her should the marriage be annulled,”

Dowry still makes me sick

For Brother Odd,

*group therapy voice* Hiiii, Odd!

He would seek to be the best monk that he could be, try to be the perfect brother, embrace their ways of peace.

You could be an RPG War Monk?

Devin could understand that; he’d found the prince to be honorable and just in a way that his brother wasn’t.

So much pride in all that "honor"

They weren’t wolves, though, or weren’t anything like normal ones. These were huge, muscled things that shambled on their hind legs, leaving the knifelike claws of their front legs free to swipe.

Interesting

They knew just as well as Devin what was about to happen: They were going to die.

Eh... I feel like you'll be fine!

All of it could be done, she could be cured, and all she had to do was break the egg, destroy the burgeoning life within. Nerra wasn’t sure she could do that.

GURL. You are dyingggg. They're are plenty of other dragons. Drink the damn yolk!

“I can’t do it,” she said. “I won’t. I won’t kill you, even for this.”

🙄🙄

The hole widened, and claws followed, a small, reptilian body slinking through the space as the egg continued to fall apart.

Welp i guess u were too late to drink the yolk anyway

The dragon lay there on her chest, making a rumbling sound that Nerra assumed was one of pleasure. It turned to one side and gave a kind of hiccup. A small burst of flame came forth from its mouth,

Cool beans

Finally, the baby dragon seemed happy with it, and it chomped down on the meat. When it was done, it sat there, staring at Nerra expectantly.

Good to see that the beast is born self-sufficient

No, the dragon was safest here.

Didnt a boy see you put the egg in there a couple chapters ago?? Edit: Yes, yes he did.

“It’s getting worse.” “That’s…” Lenore stared at her arms. “I thought it was under control.”

How unaware is this family about anything?

“Does Father know about this?” Lenore asked. “I’ll talk to him. I’ll talk to Master Grey, force them to work harder to find a cure.”

Very unaware it seems 🙄

but she knew that the world was better with the dragon in it… even if it cost her life.

Debatable

Bern sat with people around him laughing and buying him drinks,

*therapy voice* Hhiiii, Bern!

Bern; he was a mountain of a man who could crush a skull in his bare hands if it came to it, and had tattoos across both shoulders that wove their way down his arms as if to pick out the muscles. There were a lot to pick out.

Interesting

egg!” For a moment, Bern considered hitting the boy for saying something so stupid. Then he saw the fear in the lad’s face.

I feel that

A dragon’s egg was enough to be worth the risk, and a princess… well, she could go missing as easy as a peasant girl in a forest this size.

Eh

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE The creatures continued to circle and Devin didn’t know what to do.

Devin please do something interesting for once in your life

He’d done that accidentally, but could he do it deliberately? Could he actually use magic on purpose?

Completely forgot about the mysterious magic plot line

He wasn’t sure what happened then. It was like something in the fear, the certainty of his own death, flicked some kind of switch in him, changed something in him in a way that seemed familiar. Devin recognized this feeling, because he’d felt it once before. He tried to reach down into it, tried to remember the sensation of it. In that moment, looking at the world, he could see something close to another world layered on top of it, a place composed of writhing energies, and with things there that moved like shadows on the edge of sight.

Imma just say it: This whole paragraph could have been written better if just one, just one editor was hired for this book.

Devin understood in that moment how to pull the energy of that other place through himself, knew how to do it the same way that he knew how to breathe.

What in the Gary Stu is going on here?????

He reached out, and, as easily as if he were pulling aside a curtain, he ripped aside a fragment of the barrier between the two places.

Huh????

In that instant, power spilled out into the world, in a wave of force that rippled out, sending the wolf-things reeling back.

????????

Only Devin seemed to be able to stay standing there, perhaps because he’d been the one to do this.

I mean, I guess????

As suddenly as the flames had come, they were gone, extinguished with a whoomph of inrushing air.

The way the narrator says "whoomph" sounds like he's taking a big bite out of a Whopper™

Did you do something?” “I don’t know,” Devin said.

Neither does the reader cuz wtf was that scene?

only felt the effects of the force he’d called.

The Force, Luke....

“That was… impressive,” Sir Twell said. “Whatever it was.” “Very,” Sir Halfin agreed. “Can you do it again?”

Please don't. The writing will get worst. I know it!

Now that he had the ore, he had a sword to make, and then he had to decide who to give it to, and who to anger. Then there was the question of the magic.

I feel like the magic takes precedence over a man being mad about a sword but ok

The tower that housed King Ravin’s throne room

Yet ANOTHER fucking character POV!!! Ugggghhhhh! *cough* i mean- *group therapy voice* hiiiiiii Ravin 🙄

He had employed not one, but three architects, so that no one of them would understand the whole picture of it, with its passages and its secrets.

Oh aren't you just the greatest 🙄

Of course, he’d ensured that everyone involved died shortly thereafter.

There is not one original thought put into this book is there?

his great sword, Heart Splitter,

Sounds like a widow's dagger than the name of a great sword but ok.

that he was not the same barbarous fool his father and his father’s father had been.

Not the impression im getting but ok

Instead, the latest of his concubines knelt in the finest silks beside his throne, a slender chain from her ankle running to his hand.

I never understood why female slaves that were raped by their masters were called concubines??? Just call them what they are: sex slaves. And call their relationship what it is: a rapist and their victim

Did they understand that there was no point where it ended, that every day meant dealing with the problems of a kingdom, trying to gain more, be more, to pay for the rest of it? Of course they didn’t.

Yeah, cuz they're not power hungry kings. they're people trying to survive in the kingdom of one.