Welcome to Bloodwing Academy.
Expect magic. Expect competition. Expect blood.
I didn't sign up for this. A half-fae in a school of highblood vampires? That's a recipe for suffering.
I'm Medra Pendragon, last of the dragon riders—or so they tell me. Funny thing is, there are no dragons left. Not a single one. But somehow, that hasn't stopped the vampires from deciding I'm worth capturing. Now I'm stuck at Bloodwing Academy, where the highbloods run everything, and blightborn like me? We're just blood in their veins, pawns in their games.
But that's not even the worst part. Enter Blake Drakharrow: cold, arrogant, and way too gorgeous for his own good. He's been tormenting me since the moment we met, and now, thanks to some ancient ritual, we're betrothed. He acts like he owns me, but I'm not going down without a fight.
Bloodwing isn't just a school—it's a battlefield. Highbloods fight for power, and if you're weak, you're dead.
Between deadly competitions, lies that could get me executed, and a dragon-shaped secret looming over my head, all I have to do is survive. Easy, right? Except I'm starting to think the real danger isn't the academy—it's what I'm becoming in this twisted game of power.
And Blake? He might just be the one who pushes me over the edge.
They think they can control me. They think they can use me. But they have no idea what they've awakened.
Genre: fantasy/paranormal
Publication date: June 2025
Mature content: yes
Review: Can you love and hate a book at the same time? These were more or less my feelings towards On Wings of Blood. The beginning of the book is intriguing, but at the same utterly silly. Medra "falls" on Sangratha (apparently having traveled between worlds) right before the start of a new term on Bloodwing Academy (literally, the day before - because, of course, she shouldn't miss any important classes) and all in the same day she's enrolled in the Academy, dubbed a dragon rider in a place where dragons no longer exist, and bound, as a consort, to the nephew of the man supposedly ruling the land. Also, students are in an academy apparently preparing for war, but they have been in peace for over a hundred years and all the past wars were waged between the ruling houses - since they are all getting the same training and no external enemies are mentioned anywhere, I failed to see why the academy was necessary in the first place.
And from there, the mess in the plot does not improve very much. The first half of the book seems a jumble of ideas you've read before in a host of other books of the same genre.
Ad yet...Blake and Medra sort of grew on me and I was curious about what would happen to them. The more I read, the more compelling the story got (despite all its flaws), so it became difficult to put On Wings of Blood down until the very end.
Which, of course, is a cliffhanger so - onto book two in the series...
Overall, On Wings of Blood is a book you need to approach with an open mind, ignore all those details that don't really make much sense and just go with the flow.
Happy readings!
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