Title: Thunderlight
Author: Adrienne Woods
Series: The Dragonian Series (#2)
Genre: YA Fantasy
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing
Release Date: Nov 24 2014
Editions/Formats: eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
Vibrant, scale swathed wings… Abilities that can be harnessed by a chosen
few… Dragons…
All this may seem like old news, but for seventeen year-old Elena Watkins the world of Paegeia is not finished revealing all its secrets. During a summer break intended for relaxation, she discovers that her harrowing adventure to retrieve the King of Lion sword wasn’t the destiny foretold by the cryptic Viden, a dragon with the ability to see a person’s true fate. The words inked onto the page of the mysterious Book of Shadows remains black and Elena must return toDragonia
Academy to discover their
true meaning.
All this may seem like old news, but for seventeen year-old Elena Watkins the world of Paegeia is not finished revealing all its secrets. During a summer break intended for relaxation, she discovers that her harrowing adventure to retrieve the King of Lion sword wasn’t the destiny foretold by the cryptic Viden, a dragon with the ability to see a person’s true fate. The words inked onto the page of the mysterious Book of Shadows remains black and Elena must return to
Upon her return to the magnificent castle she has to face a challenge of
a different kind, keeping her boyfriend Lucian McKenzie, the Prince of Tith and
love of her life, away from the dangerous new student, Paul Sutton. As a
Wyvern, Paul has made it his mission to claim Elena as his rider but he is
proving to be more perilous than at first glance.
Everyone knew that Wyverns were bad news, and just as evil as the
darkness that lurked inside Blake Leaf, the Rubicon forced to fight against his
inner nature every day. But Elena can see a small light lurking in the
darkness, a destiny still unfulfilled; to prove that Wyverns can be claimed.
Will Lucian’s dark
secret about Wyverns and Elena’s need to prove their true nature cause their
love to be torn apart? And which of Elena’s friends will be sacrificed this
time if she is wrong?
~ * ~
Excerpt:
SUMMER WAS ALMOST over but everyone’s spirits
were high as Sammy searched for something in her room. I had recently arrived
at the Leaf’s after spending the first weeks of my vacation with Becky. Sammy
was in rare form this evening as she bounced off the walls of the room with
barely contained excitement.
Elena, cheer up! We’re going to the Warbel
games and I know it sucks that Lucian won’t be there, but I promise, you’re
going to enjoy it, okay.” Sammy spoke fast as I moved out of the way of one of
her shirts as it sailed toward me.
“Sammy, it’s not like I’m trying to be like
this, I just really miss him …” my lips puffed out a breath. “Tell me again why
the Warbel games are so mind-blowing.” I tried to change the subject away from
Lucian. He was still away on a hunting trip with his father and the girls had
decided the best way to brighten my mood was a sport that basically sounded
like Greek warfare. I still had no clue what the Warbel games were about even
after Sammy tried to explain it to me as she searched for the jersey of her
favorite team. It sounded exciting as words like soldiers, attackers and
scorers made it into her lengthy explanation.
“Because it’s the Warbel games,” she simply
said.
The only thing I retained was that Warbel was
some sort of dragon and human sport that they loved to play on this side of the
wall. She also said that Dragonia had a similar game at the beginning of each
school year, but it wasn’t as dangerous as the real one. I became even more
confused when she started talking about raiders and incantations and couldn’t
figure out how all of it came together.
Guess I’ll have to see it before I can really
understand what it’s all about.
“The one thing you need to understand is that
the game we are going to tonight is really dangerous,” she added as she
continued to tear apart her closet, “and that the humans who participate are
extremely well developed magic wielders, for their own safety as much as
winning the game.”
Okay, awesome. I thought sarcastically as I
still had no clue what the Warbel games were about.
Sir Robert had gotten
five tickets for all of us from a friend who couldn’t make tonight’s game.
Lucille, Becky’s mom, had also gotten tickets
for her, Becky and George, so we were all going to the game together.
I had spent the first three weeks of my
vacation with Becky and Lucille. Lucille was not a typical mother, but was the
most selfless person I’d ever met. She also seemed way too young to be Becky’s
mom and looked more like Becky’s older sister. She hated it when I called her
Mam or Mrs. Johnson, and insisted that I called her by her first name. She was
a lot like Becky in a sense, they shared the same type of fashion choices and
clever comments, but she also had a love of art, which Becky didn’t have. That
part connected with me one hundred percent.
Becky and her mother lived in the totally
opposite neighborhood of the Leafs, and they had more money than I could even
dream of. I guessed it was why Becky was a bit of a brat. Staying with them
made me realize what type of a person she could be sometimes. Having all that
money made Becky bossy and turned her into someone I never thought I would be
friends with. But the thought of not having her around to give me her two cent
comments, especially when I didn’t ask for them, was unthinkable. She was also
one of the bravest and fiercest girls I knew and the best friend, apart from
Sammy, a girl could ask for.
Author Information:
Adrienne Woods was
born and raised in South Africa, where she still lives with her husband and two
beautiful little girls. She always knew she was going to be a writer, but it
only started to really happen about four years ago. In her free time―if she
gets any because moms don’t really have free time―she loves to spend it with
friends, whether it’s a girl’s night out, or just watching a movie. She’s a
very chilled person. Her writing career started with Firebolt, book one in the
Dragonian series. There will be four books in total, including a further two to
three books, which will be stories that take place within the Dragonian series.
Her other series, Dream Casters, will be released mid-2015. She also writes in
different genres, and her woman’s fiction, The Pregnancy Diaries, will be
published under a pseudonym. And then, she has a paranormal series by the name
of the Aswang series, which will consist of about ten novels. And if that
wasn’t enough, there is another series, Guardians of Monsters, which will be
released in 2016.
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