4.5 StarsLENGTH: 388 pages (80-100k words)GENRE(S): FantasyAUDIENCE: AdultCOVER DESIGN: Elsa KroeseTHE RUNDOWNLlandry Sanfaer is a talented jeweler who suffers from severe social phobia, her only friends being her parents and her pet. But when she begins to make jewelry from some stones she found in a hidden cave, the luxury of a quiet life is quickly taken from her. Everyone wants a piece of her jewelry, and some are so desperate that they would kill for it.Welcome to the Seven Realms, three in perpetual light, three in perpetual dark, and one with both day and night. The world is complex and fascinating, the people in it well developed and non-human in many ways. The book provides a comfortable sense of space and environment without dwelling for long on descriptions or back story, and the writing itself is smooth and enjoyable. The plot continues to develop throughout the book, free of holes and discrepancy and always with subtlety. Likewise, the magic system is both original and reliable. The only thing in the story that might be considered inconsistent is a sudden and seemingly out of place profanity....read more at UndergroundBookReviews(dot)com! I'm not going to say this book was "bad", because it wasn't but it just didn't appeal to me. There's something about making up new words that is kind of irksome to me. If it happens once or twice, I'm okay with it but in this book there were tons of made up words. :( I think I understood why she did it because it's a fantastical story but it got kind of overwhelming, at least for me and well, suffice to say I'm choosing not to continue the Draykon odyssey. To each his own.
Do You like book Draykon (2000)?
I loved this book. There's just something about the way it's written that I really like.
—ewrenn78
Not for me, too childish and flowery in tone, and none of the characters interested me.
—Mob
long book. took me quite a while to actually enjoy it and get into it.
—kalitty
