Born of Dragons (Age of the Sorcerers—Book Three)

Born of Dragons (Age of the Sorcerers—Book Three) did not disappoint. It picks up where book two of the series, Throne of Dragons, left off, with the queen beside her husband’s unresponsive body wondering when he will awaken. Morgan Rice does a masterful job at making the reader care about a royal family. Unpredictable scenarios carry the royal siblings across the realm where mystery, magic, and subterfuge, challenge their strengths and weaknesses. 

Princess Lenore faces marriage to a power-hungry nobleman’s son who is only using her so he can become king. Her sister, Erin, who never wanted to be a princess, is fighting to prove her skills to gain a place among the Knights of the Spur, and a third princess is exiled with the scale sickness. 

The remaining princes offer just as much drama and won’t disappoint, but I’m not going to spoil the read by mentioning the details here. Let’s just say you won’t be disappointed. Then throw in the elements of magic, the old sorcerer and the unlikely young peasant, Devin, finding powers he never knew he had. 

All of these characters play integral roles in this unfolding saga, along with a host of secondary characters that make things exciting at every turn. Even with a large cast of characters, the writing is done well. All the characters are relevant, interesting, and unique which helps to keep them all straight.

I do love this story and plan to get the next book in the series to find out what happens next to these characters I’ve grown to love and hate. The only reason I give the book 4 stars instead of 5 is that I really don’t like the way the book just ends without tying up threads of the story in a satisfying way. Instead, it picks up in the next book. That’s fine. But it is not my preference and since it is my review, it gets 4 stars for that reason.

If you enjoy clean fantasy with relatable characters and plenty of action I recommend Born of Dragons to you. It offers hints of romance, magic, dragons, and an encroaching war ready to take over everything that’s good. You won’t be disappointed.

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