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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Melanie Rawn
Genre : Fantasy
When I first read Melanie Rawn’s fantasy series that begins with Dragon Prince, I fell in love with the idea that people could their colors to send messages on the sunshine. It’s a phrase I use often in a text message: “I’m sending blessings/increased health/love to you on the sunshine.
Melanie has created a stunning fantasy world of political rivals, power-hungry relatives, a love story, magic, and dragons. As he watches his father battle the old dragon, the crown prince, Rohan, knows in his heart that someday when he rules the desert, there will be no more killing the magnificent beasts. His Aunt Andrade is Lady of Goddess Keep where she trains her faradh’im, commonly called Sunrunners. These Sunrunners can send messages across the continent by weaving their colors on the sunshine. Lady Andrade plans to marry Sioned, a gifted Sunrunner to the prince. The High Prince Roelstra plans to marry one of his four daughters to Rohan in hopes of eventually gaining control of the continent.
“Sioned whirled around, looking to the east from whence the call had come, specifically for her. She automatically opened herself to the colors brushing against her mind. She wove rays of light back across the fields and valleys, over rivers, and and vast grassy sea of Meadowlord. The threads met and her own colors tangled with those of Lady Andrade. There was a second presence. Sometimes when the light was chancy—at sunset or sunrise especially—faradh’m worked together. But Sioned was certain that the person with Andrade was not trained, though there were unmistakable gifts in the bright colors of amber and amethyst and sapphire swirling with the pattern of a powerful mind.”
“Sioned’s eyes were wild as she proved herself worthy—and more—by tangling the other farahi in light. But it had gone on too long. Andrade sense the strain of the conjure and the moonweave drag on her own perceptions. With the skills possessed only by a Lady or Lord of Goddess Keep, Andrade quickly gathered strands of light, sorting and separating. It was as if she unraveled a fine silk veil made of a thousand colors, each painted in silver and Fire, then rewove them into the unique pattern that was Sioned.”
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