![]() She has spent her life as part of a traveling caravan of free traders. Readers first meet Halani in the first book in the series. I knew there would be a big pay-off because this author always delivers, but I wondered how long it would take the pacing to pick up. ![]() Honestly? It took me a few chapters to really become engaged. Most of the action takes place in the second half, which means that the first half is build-up and backstory, learning about our characters and watching their relationship unfold in a sort of leisurely fashion. While Phoenix Unbound kind of kicks off the series with a bang, Dragon Unleashed is paced in an unhurried way. This book felt different than its predecessor. Dragon Unleashed is the second novel in her Fallen Empire series and features a draga on a quest and an earth witch who is a member of a traveling group of traders. I’ve never made any secret of the fact that I am unabashedly a Grace Draven fangirl and have loved all her work. “You will always have a place among us, a place beside me, in life and beyond death when the earth sings us to dust and tells the wind of how Halani of the Lightning loved a draga and he loved her in return.” ![]()
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