![]() ![]() ![]() Cluess delivers well on an ambitious premise, tackling issues of the horrors of imperialism and assimilation while balancing an action-packed novel with a complex group of characters who elicit sympathy and revulsion in turns. Together they participate in battles of strength and wits, until they have to join forces to uncover the mysterious conditions surrounding their strange selection and the previous emperor’s death. This time around, the Great Dragon chooses untraditionally: Emilia is the second-born daughter of the Aurun family, prone to bursts of chaos magic Lucian is the second son of the Sabel family, recently discarding his sword for life as a monk Vespir, a dragon handler for the Pentri family, is having a secret affair with their daughter Ajax is the twenty-first bastard child of the Tiber clan, perpetually unnoticed and ruthless Hyperia is the firstborn of the Volscia, who murdered her younger sister to compete in the trial. When an emperor dies, the Great Dragon selects the firstborn of the five noble houses to compete in a series of trials with their dragons the losers are executed, and the winner made ruler. ![]()
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