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"The world of the quest is finely realized, and the writing action-packed." "--Bookbag"
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Dragon's in Areth each have a single predestined rider and a single life mission, given to them by the Oracle. But this once all-powerful being is now fatally damaged and fading fast...Only the dragons and their riders can save it! Nolita is terrified of dragons! Learning to fly her day dragon would be dangerous enough without irrational fears to contend with and a vicious dragon-hunter on her tail. With Elian, another novice rider, Nolita seeks the first of four Orbs, whose combined power can restore the Oracle. Only Nolita, as a day dragon rider, can claim it. To do so, she must face her worst fears, and face them alone...
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Mark Robson is very underrated and once again proves that he is indeed a good author.
I loved the Darkweaver Legacy and I love stories of dragons and Firestorm doesn't disappoint I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
I loved the Darkweaver Legacy and I love stories of dragons and Firestorm doesn't disappoint I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
Format:Paperback
Nolita, Kira and Elian are trying to save Dragon-kind. On the other hand Husam is trying to kill Ra. The best part of the book is when Elian saves a man at war and when he saves Longfang, it was very exciting.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Accidental find of a gem
14 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Firestorm is a dragon story, first and foremost. I've always held a special place in my reader heart for dragon stories, so this one was perfect to settle in to read while my fireplace warmed the chill from my bones.
The story is told with deft strokes, creating characters that have believable problems, dragons with credible weaknesses, and a plot that was at once familiar and yet kept me guessing.
This YA fantasy lacks nothing that I can possibly think of. I read it through in about two days, namely because each time I set it down, I had to read just "one more chapter". The story unfolds between riders who are discovering their dragons for the first time, especially one particular young lady, Nolita, who is swamped with a terrible phobia toward both heights and large beasts--not a good combination for any dragonrider.
Worse, when she and her friends finally do arrive at a mystic Oracle that maintains dragon and dragonrider society, Nolita discovers that she and three others must hunt out four orbs against all opposition, in order to save the Oracle. With her paralyzing terror of dragons, how can she possibly assist them in their life's quest?
The most interesting portion of the story, for me, was the classification of each dragon. I've seen them classed by color, size, temperament, and all sorts of things in many books. But instead, Robson chooses to use the idea of the time of day when the egg first hatched to determine the types. A dawn, day, dusk, and night dragon. And each dragon is the most powerful at those specific times. It made the story richer, and ensured a permanent sense of the "ticking clock" tension that I so love in stories I read.
The author, by the way, is a former pilot. This adds a huge amount of realism to the descriptions of flight, down to even the problems of thin air, freezing temperatures, and g-forces that many, many dragon stories completely ignore.
I've already planned to purchase the other three books and add them to my collection. Not only to support a fellow author, but also to enjoy an excellent series. This easily gets four stars from me, and I have a fair idea that rating will rise as I read the others in the series.
The story is told with deft strokes, creating characters that have believable problems, dragons with credible weaknesses, and a plot that was at once familiar and yet kept me guessing.
This YA fantasy lacks nothing that I can possibly think of. I read it through in about two days, namely because each time I set it down, I had to read just "one more chapter". The story unfolds between riders who are discovering their dragons for the first time, especially one particular young lady, Nolita, who is swamped with a terrible phobia toward both heights and large beasts--not a good combination for any dragonrider.
Worse, when she and her friends finally do arrive at a mystic Oracle that maintains dragon and dragonrider society, Nolita discovers that she and three others must hunt out four orbs against all opposition, in order to save the Oracle. With her paralyzing terror of dragons, how can she possibly assist them in their life's quest?
The most interesting portion of the story, for me, was the classification of each dragon. I've seen them classed by color, size, temperament, and all sorts of things in many books. But instead, Robson chooses to use the idea of the time of day when the egg first hatched to determine the types. A dawn, day, dusk, and night dragon. And each dragon is the most powerful at those specific times. It made the story richer, and ensured a permanent sense of the "ticking clock" tension that I so love in stories I read.
The author, by the way, is a former pilot. This adds a huge amount of realism to the descriptions of flight, down to even the problems of thin air, freezing temperatures, and g-forces that many, many dragon stories completely ignore.
I've already planned to purchase the other three books and add them to my collection. Not only to support a fellow author, but also to enjoy an excellent series. This easily gets four stars from me, and I have a fair idea that rating will rise as I read the others in the series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Kids on Dragons
18 Jun 2011
Format:Paperback
So far as I know, the whole dragon riding thing was invented by Anne McCaffrey who built a career on it. Or was it Ruth Stiles Gannett with "My Father's Dragon"? Anyway, Ruth's dragons are kind of for little kids and Anne's dragon riders spend more time talking politics than actually riding dragons. So clearly there is a need for a dragonrider book for younger teens that hasn't been entirely filled by Cornelia Funke. So here comes the Dragon Orb series to the rescue.
I think many ten-year-olds will be well satisfied by this. As an adult, I liked the idea of having one of the dragon riders having a real fear of dragons, but I'm afraid the whole thing felt a little contrived to me. The dragon characters all have a magical "dragon sense" by which they always know what they are "supposed" to do. Supposed by what odd god, I do not know and the book does not ask. I have to suspect that it is the author's device for getting the characters to do what he wants them to do without having to invent any motivations for them. So the characters sort of just get dragged through their adventures for no obvious reason. When dragon sense runs out, we have an oracle to give fresh marching orders. And the final quest seems to be more like a final exam administered by impartial judges than an actual battle against the forces of evil. A few of the characters are well developed, but others, like Firestorm, the title character, don't get any real development until the last chapter. So this is an OK book for young readers, but doesn't really stand out from the crowd.
I think many ten-year-olds will be well satisfied by this. As an adult, I liked the idea of having one of the dragon riders having a real fear of dragons, but I'm afraid the whole thing felt a little contrived to me. The dragon characters all have a magical "dragon sense" by which they always know what they are "supposed" to do. Supposed by what odd god, I do not know and the book does not ask. I have to suspect that it is the author's device for getting the characters to do what he wants them to do without having to invent any motivations for them. So the characters sort of just get dragged through their adventures for no obvious reason. When dragon sense runs out, we have an oracle to give fresh marching orders. And the final quest seems to be more like a final exam administered by impartial judges than an actual battle against the forces of evil. A few of the characters are well developed, but others, like Firestorm, the title character, don't get any real development until the last chapter. So this is an OK book for young readers, but doesn't really stand out from the crowd.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The best!
7 Nov 2008
Format:Paperback
My 10 year old has read this book THREE times already (in between loaning it out to his friends!) Need I say more??? I can't vouch for the content as its never free long enough for me to read it, but am told that "this is the best book, EVER!"
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