Review: The Dragon Sickness by Ava Richardson

Title: The Dragon Sickness

Author: Ava Richardson

Series: Alveria Dragon Academy #2

Genre: Dragons/Fantasy/Ya/Romance

Publisher: Self-Pub

Publication Date: December 26th, 2018

Edition: Kindle Edition, 367 pages

Source: Purchased

Purchase: Amazon US

Synopsis:

Their power is in the strength of their bond. But deceit threatens to break it. 

   It’s official. Kaelan Younger has finally been accepted as a dragon tamer at the Akademy. Yet even as she begins to learn the extent of her powers, a mysterious illness stalks the dragons and threatens Prince Lasaro. 

   More than her bond with the prince is endangered when Kaelan seeks help from a most unlikely source. As a result, the lies to cover her deception mount. But with the enemy’s armies gathering at Alveria’s borders, Kaelan will do whatever it takes to save those she has sworn to protect—even if it means sacrificing herself. 

   Now Kaelan and Lasaro must find a way to heal the dragons and harness the depth of their connection in order to stop the treachery from within. 

  If not, a once great nation will fall.

Review:

On to the second book in the bind-up. And I gotta say, that I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first. 

The plot, while more detailed, was less interesting for me. There seemed to be two plots competing with each other. The sickness attacking the dragons, and Mordon trying to connect with Kaelan. 

While there was no annoying love triangle, there was still some mildly annoying angsty BS of "losing trust in each other". It wasn't petty things, but still, I know they are teenagers but jumping to a conclusion so quickly that they can't be trusted before talking to each other first was annoying. Especially considering all they've been through in such a short amount of time I would hope they'd give each other the benefit of the doubt first.

Both plot lines were interesting and did add something to the world, but as I said, they felt like they were competing with each other a little. The plotline with Mordon added to the worldbuilding of the magic of Dragons, and that was really interesting to read. I liked reading those scenes a little bit more than I did with Kaelan kind of stumbling over herself trying to cure everybody on her own. For someone who is supposed to have a lot of courage she sure does let people walk all over her a lot, I hope she stops that in the next book.

The romance continues to be a nice part of the plot. I'm curious to where things are headed at this point, especially with a plot device involving a prophecy that was added to this book. I kind of hope it's used the way I think it is. If it doesn't I hope it's still used in a good way.

This was a quick read, I read it in a few hours.