Review: The Keeper of the Kingdoms

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As the daughter of the Healer on High, my life was on course to become his successor.

That was until a dragon came out of nowhere and claimed me as his ryder.

But it can’t happen. I’m an academic, not a dragon ryder.

But more than that, I have to figure out where all the magic in the kingdom is going.

It’s slipping away and I’m the only one who seems to notice.

Now we’re fighting a war on two fronts and we won’t have enough power to win unless I can find out where it’s all going.

But my focus is pulled away because Nyx is crumbling and if I can’t heal him, we might lose him and lose everything else in the process.

I’m drowning. I can’t fix it all alone.

Then help comes from and unlikely source.

From a dragon. My dragon.

Jaxus is not at all what I expected him to be.

There’s intelligence rolled in with all that muscle and I don’t know what to make of him.

All I can do is accept his help and hope that together we can find the key to saving the twelve kingdoms before we lose it all.

Genre: fantasy

Publication date: September 2024

Mature content: yes

Review: The Keeper of the Kingdoms is the second book in the Flyers of The First Kingdom series and closely follows The Ryder of the Night. And although each book features a different set of main characters, there's a background story that flows from one to the other, so it's better to read the series in order.  

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While I did like Kiera and Jaxus, I felt some parts of the plot were a bit confusing, with contradicting details here and there, and the wording was downright weird in places. Some chapters were really good and others not so much. 

If this was a stand alone book, I wouldn't actively recommend it. As it's book 2 in the series, it's a must read if you want to keep track of the underlying plot and move on to book 3.

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