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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I love Shana Abe's Drakon series! ( )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. 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. 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. 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. no reviews | add a review
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