Ratings Overall: 7 Sensuality: 6 Fantasy Element: 10

This is an Official Review by a Fantasy Romance Writer Official Reviewer

Review for Dragonborn
Author: Jade Lee
Date of Review: 01/18/08
Reviewed by: Stacy Cooper

Reviewer Comments: Dragonborn by Jade Lee takes place in a fantasy land. Just as the title suggests, there are dragons, and humans who carry the dragons until they are ready to be born. Those humans are called dragonborn.

Natiya is a poor dancer who carries a dangerous secret. She is incubating the queen dragon egg. At a time when dragons and the dragonborn are hunted and killed, she risks it all for revenge against the emperor who ordered her parents killed. She dreams of the day when her dragon hatches and together they destroy the emperor and his copper dragon who have ruled the land for over a hundred years.

Kiril is the king’s dragon hunter. He is seeking all who may challenge the emperor’s rule. After witnessing his cousin’s radical change during the incubation period, he believes that dragons corrupt their human incubators. He hunts and kills both the dragon and the dragonborn.

One night he finds Natiya, and things begin to change. He discovers an interest in something that doesn’t involve dragons, or so he thinks. He soon decides that Natiya is hiding something and plans to discover any secrets her dragon scholar parents might have left to her.

He is in a race against time, though. For the emperor is not a patient man. He is searching for something and his search is leading him to Natiya.

Natiya is an inexperienced person without power. With the egg she gains the possibility of power and all that comes with that. She learns that having power also means having enemies and hard decisions. This all works to create a person with a mission.

Kiril comes across as set in his ways, but Natiya has the power, unknown to her, to influence him. He is willing to change and to open himself to the possibility of being wrong and that is something that is great in a hero.

Overall, Dragonborn is an interesting story. Ms. Lee has mixed a new land with a new terminology to create a fun journey for her reader.