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The Dream Thief by Shana Abé
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The Dream Thief

by Shana Abé

Series: The Drakon (2)

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I love Shana Abe's Drakon series! ( )
  C.Leistikow | Oct 24, 2009 |
This was the second in the Drakon series. Although I do like the writing style of Shana Abe, something about this book just didn't do it for me. I didn't find it nearly as good as the first - Smoke Thief. This is about Zane and Lia. They were not very interesting characters like the first book. Most of the book is about them traveling to different places on thier way to find Draumr. It was to say the least, boring. I had a hard time getting through to the end which was quite uneventful. It left more questions then it answered. I am dearly hoping her next book will be better than this one was. ( )
  littleflwers | Jul 29, 2009 |
I really loved this book. It is better IMHO than the first book in the series, The Smoke Thief. This one actually has a plot and isn't just a tale of the romance between two drakon. Well written, if you lose yourself in her prose you can really believe that her world is real. ( )
  Kirconnell | Jul 13, 2009 |
Didn’t work for me nearly as well as the first book unfortunately. I don’t particularly care for Lia and I actively disliked Zane for much of this book. ( )
  ph8 | Jun 12, 2009 |
Zane, the urchin boy who served the beautiful Smoke Thief of the first book has now grown into a sleek and dangerous master thief, one of the few humans allowed to know about and work with the drakons, dragon shape-shifters who live hidden amongst 18th. century English society. He is bidden to search for the legendary diamond, the Draumr, by the drakon lord, for a reward that will make him wealthy. He sets off for the Carpathian Mountains, where the diamond was rumored to be hidden.

Lia is the young daughter of the Lord and Lady of the drakons, but has always felt unimportant since she cannot change nor seem to exhibit any powers. However, she may have precognition and a special sense for the diamond, although no one believes in her. She feels Zane is important to her future and that of the drakon, and she has always secretly had feelings for him. Against all the harsh rules of the drakon, she is determined to aid him in finding the diamond, a jewel that is also crucial to the survival of her people.

Again, the best thing about the tale is the beautiful language Abe uses. But Zane and Lia are also fascinating characters. I think I like this tale the best of the Drakon books. ( )
  aprillee | May 20, 2009 |
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In the remote hills of northern England lives a powerful clan with a centuries-old secret. They are the drákon, shape-shifters who possess the ability to Turn—changing from human to smoke to dragon. And from the very stones of the earth, they hear hypnotic songs of beauty and wonder. But there is one stone they fear....

Buried deep within the bowels of the Carpathian Mountains lies the legendary dreaming diamond known as Draumr, the only gem with the power to enslave the drákon. Since childhood, Lady Amalia Langford, daughter of the clan’s Alpha, has heard its haunting ballad but kept it secret, along with another rare Gift....

Lia can hear the future, much in the way she hears the call of Draumr. And in that future, she realizes that the diamond—along with the fate of the drákon—rests in the hands of a human man, one who straddles two worlds.

Ruthlessly clever, Zane has risen through London’s criminal underworld to become its ruler. Once a street urchin saved by Lia’s mother, Zane is also privy to the secrets of the clan—and is the only human they trust to bring them Draumr. But he does nothing selflessly.

Zane’s hunt for the gem takes him to Hungary, where he is shocked to encounter a bold, beautiful young noblewoman: Lia. She has broken every rule of the drákon to join him, driven by the urgent song of Draumr—and her visions of Zane. In one future, he is her ally. In another, her overlord. In both, he is her lover. Now, to protect her tribe, Lia must tie her fate to Zane’s, to the one man capable of stealing her future—and destroying her heart....

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