A thief with mysterious ancestors trying to finally rise from poverty. A dragon, the last of his kind, who finds himself trapped in the human world. When they are forced to work together, they form an unlikely team – any they actually have no clue what the other one actually is… I wasn't expecting the romance to be such a significant part of the book, but it really is, Of course, I understand that not everyone will enjoy this aspect of the book, but personally, I thought it was chefs kiss. Long ago, you see, humans and dragons lived in the same world. But as the dragons recall it, they were betrayed and exiled without cause. The humans, meanwhile, have all but forgotten dragons as real, present beings: instead, in Loc, they worship dragons as gods, the source of their magic, but remember nothing of human-dragon history. The spell connects to Everen, the last male dragon foretold to save his kind, dragging him through the Veil. Disguised as a human, Everen soon learns that to regain his true power and form and fulfil his destiny, he only needs to convince one little thief to trust him enough to bond completel - -body, mind, and soul - and then kill them. Dragonfall has the now familiar structure of a multiple first-person point-of-view novel. Each chapter is told by a single character. There are three main points of view: Everen, Arcady, and Soren. I have not mentioned Soren before. Arcady and Soren have twisty minds, and I enjoyed their points of view a lot. Everen was a little less fun, but I expect him to become more interesting in the next books.

How does magic work? Arcady has a cylindrical amulet and does something and thinks about the dragon gods and boom, magic.

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It was different from most of the writing styles I’ve seen through the years. It was fascinating but it was dragging A LOT sometimes that I found myself skimming more than I’d like to admit. There is a thin line between poetic and “get to the point ffs” and this book played jump rope with it.

Sometimes I feel like I'll never read a good book again. Sometimes I have to settle for an "it was ok" one. Over the years, humans forgot this. Dragons did not. They have been spying on humans, collecting prophecies, and waiting for their chance for revenge. Set in a unique and wondrous world, Dragonfall is a soaring and fiery love story that will burn or melt your heart. Lam's prose is delicate and gorgeous yet sharp, and will leave readers pining for the next book.”—Wesley Chu, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the War Arts Saga The most straightforward description of this novel gives the impression that it follows the conventions of an enemies-to-lovers romance set in an epic frame. That’s slightly misleading: Dragonfall leans as hard if not harder into its epic concerns as it does its personal ones, and while neither are short-changed, readers primarily interested in stories with a romantic emphasis may find this novel does things they don’t expect.They aren't a very competent thief, and they frequently overreact, scream, and generally cause a scene.

Arcady is a thief. Their family fell out of favor and their grandparent was held responsible for creating a plague. Their plan is to steal enough money so they can go to magic school and work their way up the social ladder under a false identity. They want to look for evidence their grandparent was innocent. Molly Powell, editorial director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to the Dragonfall trilogy from Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment. Leah Spann at DAW snapped up North American rights from Mushens in an exclusive submission. Dragonfall will be published in May 2023 in the UK and US simultaneously. If it was possible, Arcady lives an even bleaker life than Everen, suffering is a constant in her world. She grows up an orphan, making her living as a thief after suffering a horrendous event in her youth. The start of Dragonfall sees her stealing a powerful artifact from the body of the Plaguebringer, the most despised man in Lumet’s history, in an attempt to get revenge on the world that has wronged her. What she doesn’t realise is that her actions are the trigger to an even more significant event, with her spell dragging Everen through the Veil and into the human world. The premise for Dragonfall immediately grabbed me. We are introduced to a world in which dragons have been banished to a dark, dying home after being betrayed by humans. The twist? So much time has passed since this betrayal that humans now worship dragons as gods – even though their deities want nothing more than to return to the world and wreak a terrible revenge on humanity. If there’s one word to sum up the worlds depicted in Dragonfall, it’s bleak. On one hand, we have the dragons living in a world that is basically a smoking ruin, one volcanic eruption away from destruction. On the other hand, we have Lumet, the human nation where much of the story is based. Poverty is rife, the rich hoard magic and wealth, and the nation is still recovering after being devastated by a deadly plague called the Strike. An intriguing world, forbidden romance, unique magic, and of course, as many dragons as your heart could possibly desire.” —Tara Sim, author of The City of DuskArcady lives in an abandoned shop called Loc and Key, a pun that only works in English. Their magic is done using something creatively called the Old Tongue, with phrases like, "Ar-réal vanok vaugain." It looks pretty far removed from English. How are they related? An aspect that didn’t quite work for me was the storyline involving Sorin, essentially a warrior acolyte under the thrall of a shadowy individual. I didn’t find her few chapters particularly engaging and thought her storyline just distracted from Everen and Arcady. I also felt her narrative ended in quite a predictable way and perhaps would have been helped by a few more chapters to really flesh out her characterisation.