While Sarah’s father goes to work on the settlement to build the house he will be gone all day and will have to leave her alone.
She takes comfort and courage from the cloak her mother put around her before she left and deals with family as best she can.Īs Sarah and her father arrive to the plot of land he builds and shed and Sarah is faced with her first real issue. While Sarah is there she observes the household and decides that is not what her own home will be like getting by the children about how Indians will harm her and living in a place lacking love. The next day the two arrive at a small settlement owned by the Robinson family. The first night Sarah and her father are in the wilderness she hears noises and distracts herself by saying that it is simply an owl or a fox or a skunk. Obstacles appear in her way such as sleeping out in the wilderness to confronting her fear of Native Americans. Along the way Sarah Noble must deal with the challenges of growing up as she must now depend on herself for a lot more things. I eagerly await the next entry in the series.Eight-year-old Sarah Noble and her father are setting out for Connecticut to go and build a house on the plot of land her father has purchased. It never gets in the way of the pacing, and really kicks up my appreciation for the novel as a whole. Every move is easily visualized, but only were necessary. As usual, Brassey's descriptions of swordplay are accurate, understandable, and intense. While I saw some of the twists coming, a few still managed to get me and make me say "yeahbutwha?"Īnd of course, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the action scenes. While the pacing slows down notably in this outing, what we get in exchange is a ton of world building and some equally exciting scenes. Some of the comedic beats may feel a bit out of place, but each has a place. The dialog feels very snappy and Buffy-esque, which is a welcome addition to any fantasy setting. The character archetypes at play are immediately recognizable, but for me they end up feeling surprisingly personal and believable, if a bit underdeveloped still in some cases. "Dragon Road" mixes up the pacing significantly, delivering more character development over a slower, more intriguing storyline. I deeply enjoyed the first book of this series, "Skyfarer", due primarily to its aggressive pacing, dynamic set pieces, and rapid-but-deep world building. Couldn't put book one down and eagerly wanting to devour book two when I get my hands on it.
This needs to be turned into a full fledged CGI movie because live-action will not do it justice.
Descriptive writing painted a perfect picture in my mind. "If Firefly was cowboys in space, then this is the swords and sorcery version. Here is my review for The Drifting Lands: Skyfarer (Book One): So the question to the writer now is "When will we see a book three?" You could omit the epilogue and this book would still deserve a follow up novel or ten. Of course there's a plot twist, but not the one you expected unless you caught the very subtle bread crumbs along the way. The action just kept building as you watched the characters keep developing from book one. It can be a fun stand-alone read, but you get some much more out of it if start with Skyfarer. The first book was great but this one was awesome, could not put it down.