Moonbreeze

Written by Adrienne Woods

Narrated by Kris Koscheski and Erin Moon

The life of a star-studded royal has not been kind to eighteen-year-old Elena Watkins. With a Council breathing down her neck and a dragon that refuses to accept her as her rider, she must convince everyone that she is ready to rule Paegeia like her parents before her. But she has made a promise to her father King Albert, that she will not go looking for him and free the people of Etan. Elena has promised to never truly fulfill her destiny.

However, situations out of her control will soon force her to confront herself and the evil that seeks to destroy her. Elena must look inside herself to discover if she can defeat the approaching darkness, be accepted by the people of Paegeia, bring her dragon back to light, and fulfill the destiny written in their stars.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Aug 29, 2017
• ISBN: 9781541472549

Adrienne Woods

Adrienne Woods resides with her family on the East side of Joburg, Gauteng. If she isn't writing, she is reading and love to spend time with her two beautiful little girls. You can find out more about Adrienne Woods at www.authoradriennewoods.com   

Reviews for Moonbreeze

[catajane · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This author really could have benefited from an editor prepared to encourage her to cut unnecessary scenes. There are so many sub plots that have no explanation.

One of the most hilarious parts of this listen, was an accidentally unedited moment in which the reader was like "There's no punctuation at the end of this phrase to indicate of it's the end of the sentence or the chapter, so I'm just going to read it again" And then she literally re-reads the last phrase HA. Had me laughing out loud that the reader was sassing the poor writing and they failed to cut it out in the final audio publication.

As other reviewers have mentioned, there are a lot of parallels to be had between this series and Harry Potter. Just in the sense that the author was clearly inspired by elements of that series, and re-invented it with dragons. There's also some blatant borrowing from Cinderella and Mulan in the Frostbite book. This just kind of adds to the fanfiction vibe of this series, and it feels like it's not a professional book?

I honestly don't know why I'm still tolerating this book series. Ever since the first book, the author has used the phrase "I giggled" EXCESSIVELY. Like, nothing can possibly merit this much giggling from our main character, who has endured a whole pile of terrible in this series. It's like the author doesn't want to use the words, 'I said' or some other speech indicator. The phrase "I/he chuckled" was used nearly as many times as the male equivalent to the giggle. I started calling Elena 'the Giggler' at some point in book two, and she continues to live up to this moniker. The other overused phrase: "I stroked my face hard." Is there truly no other phrase with which to convey frustration or stress? This woman needs a thesaurus.

Anyway, back to the book's plot: There's a lot of unnecessary lying to our Giggler in this book. She goes through a horrible trauma, and then her supposed-love is like nah let her think I don't care and never did. And everyone is confused, but they promise not to tell, and they say we support you in your farce lover-boy. Then, he basically lies to her more by letting her believe his dragon-form is someone other than him--even though previous books have established that the Giggler knows that dragons & their human forms are one entity, not two split personalities.

At least the author gives the Giggler some therapy in this book after nearly four books of really bad times. She giggles in therapy too, but at least she gets some much needed help.

[J Ro · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This was a hard listen. Story seemed to drag out a lot. There is mature content that is quite sensitive and can be distressing that wasn't necessary to the story.

[anthea lincoln · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book was not as captivating as the previous book and I wasn’t as enthralled to begin with, but towards the end, it definitely redeemed itself. What a great way to end a book.
I did struggle at times with the relationship issues with Blake and Elena and the way everyone else’s relationship with the couple dragged on or went around in circles. It was just quite frustrating and drawn out, but definitely improved towards the ending.
There were incidents that definitely are not too YA also, but they were still handled well with no explicit details etc.