The night's chaos left us breathless. Now the real nightmare begins.
A second dragon has awoken – her heart tainted and her power commandeered by two ruthless highbloods whose cruelty knows no bounds.
My dearest friend teetered on the brink of death. A dragon saved her, but now she's tied to him in a way I can scarcely understand. What will this new bond do to the woman I've come to love as a sister?
And then there’s Blake. Once my relentless tormentor – he betrayed me again, nearly condemning Nyxaris to a cursed, stone-cold fate. Now something has shifted in him. His gray eyes hide a secret he’s desperate to keep.
I saved Blake’s life, despite everything. Yet now my every heartbeat questions where we go from here.
With Bloodwing Academy in turmoil and a new headmaster no one saw coming, only one thing is certain: This is going to be one hell of a term.
Genre: fantasy/paranormal
Publication date: March 2026
Mature content: yes
Review: The Wings that Bind is the third book in the Bloodwing Academy series, and closely follows On Wings of Blood and A Bond that Burns. It's not meant to be read as stand alone.
Honestly? I don't know what to think of it. On the one hand, I'm hooked onto the story (I will be anxiously waiting for the next - and hopefully last - installment to be published). On the other hand, there were several things that bothered me in this book.
One: I don't like how the author drops words that seemed to be purposely included to remind us of other books. Like parapet. I know it's a common name, but write it in the context of a story with an academy + dragons and I'm instantly making a connection to Fourth Wing. Same as the Veil, which is a new thing added to the plot (and not duly explained in any way) and that reminds me immediately of Helen Scheuerer's books, for example.
Two: I don't like how some characters are totally inconsistent and how some parts of the plot seem to be abandoned in favor of a new twist every few chapters. I can't wrap my mind around Regan's change of attitude for example. Or on how we went from a story with a more or less military academy and vague references to dragons, to something with wolf shifters (no idea how Kage came to be like that), dragon shifters, a plague that we never saw coming (and that seems to last for just a couple of chapters), and much, much more. It's like the authors is trying to cram all mainstream genres of paranomal and fantasy books onto one single story.
And then you these absolutely beautiful parts:
“Let me tell you that I love you more than anything in this world or any other. I love you more than the sum of your sins. My heart chose you a long time ago. Maybe before I even got here.” The lump in my throat forced me to pause. “You make me feel like I’m falling, like I’m tearing apart at the seams. But free? I will never be free of you. I can’t be. I choose to be chained to you. I choose to be claimed. I would never choose to be free. Because this feeling is everything. You aren’t just in my heart—you are my heart. You are written in my blood.”
This has got to be one of the best declarations of love I've ever read. I'm not entirely sure how Medra and Blake got to this point, but it's sure worth re-reading this paragraph several times over.
So yes, I will read on even if I don't like these books all that much. Does that make sense? Probably not, but at least it's par with the disaster this plot is turning into...
Happy readings!
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