When a mysterious stranger brings word of a dragon, Jason’s whole world changes.The northern mountain village offers protection from the threat of dragons, but is a difficult place, especially for a misfit like Jason Dreshen. His days are spent hunting for food for his family, praying for warmth, and trying to hide his strange silver eye that grants him dragon sight.When a stranger visits during … a stranger visits during the local Freedom Festival searching for a different kind of dragon, everything changes.
Forced down the mountainside, Jason learns the truth of powers he’d only heard about in rumors. While running from deadly Dragon Souls, he finds he might have more of a connection to magic than only dragon sight. In order to save himself and stop the Dragon Souls, he must learn a truth about himself that leads him closer to the one thing he fears above all others: dragons.
Somehow, he might be the only one able to protect them from the Dragon Souls, but how can he protect what he hates?
Ice Dragon is the first book in The Dragon Misfits fantasy adventure series.
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Ice Dragon was entertaining, fast paced, action packed and very well written.
Am looking forward to the next book in the series.
Over half the book passes before you meet the dragon, so dragon lovers may be disappointed. The story builds around Jason, a young high mountain villager with one blue eye and one silver eye, who hunts to keep his mother and sister alive. The loss of his father, killed by a dragon, has left many scars on Jason and his family; they live in poverty and often face scorn. An unexpected encounter with the Dragon Souls, who recognize the meaning of his silver eye, draws Jason into danger, a dragon encounter, and a choice that will set him on the path to change dragon kind.
Jason is a young man, a hunter who lives in the cold desolate mountains trying his best to provide for his sick mother and sister. Since his father’s death Jason has lived hating dragons who had killed his father as he saved Tessa a young woman from the same village. Jason was different to the other young man of the village and was often bullied by Reltash and his cronies, who were all bigger than him. Jason had the dragon sight which singled him out as a misfit and life was tough for the family who barely survived from day to day. On the night of the festival a stranger comes into Jason’s life and changes his life forever. Therin Dargish also has the dragon sight and he gave Jason a dragon pearl, but he did not know how to use this or its value so when he travelled down the mountain to a town he thought to trade this for supplies. William, another young man offered to help him but all he did was get poor Jason into trouble. Jason was very naïve, never having been off the mountain before. He encounters Old Henry when the dragon souls were trying to capture them and Henry saved their lives. The young men end up in Dragon Haven, where everything Jason believed about dragons was turned on its head, as he met the resistance, people who were out to fight against the dragon souls and who believed in the freedom of dragons. Once back on the mountain with Therin pursuing him Jason finds out more than he anticipated as he realises he has dragon sight for a reason! It took me a while to get into the book as it seemed as though all Jason did was flounder in the ice and snow of the desolate mountain top where he lived, but once the story finally got going I found myself engrossed in the tale of the experimentation on the dragon eggs and I am now looking forward to reading further into the story of the dragon misfits that were created.
Great book a bit long on description but basically ok
Dragons, ah such neat creatures. Jason a boy from an isolated village in the snowy mountains. His father was killed in the mountains by a Dragon he thought. He had to be the provider for his sister and mother. Jason went looking for game on the mountain but was surprised by some guy hunting dragons. This story is delightful with vivid characters. Good storytelling, good book, next please.