When forced to choose between safety with the dragon organization Talon and being hunted forever as an outcast, Ember Hill chose to stand with Riley and his band of rogue dragons rather than become an assassin for Talon. She’s lost any contact with her twin brother, Dante, a Talon devotee, as well as Garret, the former-enemy soldier who challenged her beliefs about her human side.
As Ember and … Ember and Riley hide and regroup to fight another day, Garret journeys alone to the United Kingdom, birthplace of the ancient and secret Order of St. George, to spy on his former brothers and uncover deadly and shocking secrets that will shake the foundations of dragons and dragon-slayers alike and place them all in imminent danger as Talon’s new order rises.
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That ending!! I have to read the next one right away. I’m hooked on this series. I have no idea where it is going to go but I’m here for it.
I don’t really know what I think about Soldier. It had great moments with intense twists, romance and interactions as well as drama I really enjoyed. On the other hand though, between those moments there were a lot of lolls and actions that bugged me a bit.
The start of Soldier was not the best. It wasn’t bad or anything, but it didn’t feel like much was happening other than the characters running around and Ember having almost a mental breakdown. The story did pick up though as soon as Garret entered the picture again, and albeit some slow moments after that, the plot kept me invested well enough until the very end. What did it mostly was the romance and drama, which I felt had a bit more room in this book compared to the previous one and had more twists surrounding it to keep it interesting. However, even if it was interesting it also felt a bit trite and forced at some points.
Now this series is most likely meant for a younger audience than little old me so I have tried to be open minded while I read when it came to some of the things the characters said and did. However, I at some points couldn’t help being a bit annoyed over the characters thought process, or lack thereof, walking right into traps (one being very obvious when it was set up by someone they knew was extremely unreliable) not once anticipating that it could be a trap. Or just the sheer luck they often had to survive impossible situations and fights against all odds. I hate using TSTL to describe characters, and I didn’t think any of the characters were stupid necessarily, but TSTL is the closest and easiest way I can describe it. If these characters where to go trough what they did in real life they would be dead ten times over.
Despite all that though I can’t dispute the things that I liked about the story. Though the whole triangle drama was a bit overused it did breed some good intense and heartbreaking scenes. I loved the team they became as well as the conflict within it. I loved the revelation later on in the book as well as in the ending. Especially the tragedy the book left us with, which makes me want to pick up book two immediately.
This series IS engaging and does keep you interested in what’s going on. However, there’s just something missing that prevents this series from being great.
I am confused about one thing. This is a series about dragons. Not were-dragons. Not half-dragon half human. It’s dragons who take on human shape to hide. They have NO human inside of them. But the whole love triangle thing is Ember having two sides, a human half and a dragon half. uh, what? She doesn’t have a dragon inside her, she IS a dragon. This whole thing would have made sense as a shifter romance, where shifters are partly human. It doesn’t make sense that a dragon mimicking human.
Great series.