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The Dragoneers (The Chronicles of Susah)

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The Dragoneers is difficult to put down once you start. I really loved the characters and the action was non-stop. Its a great read and I recommend it to everyone.

Normally, I don't read much fantasy genre, but if The Dragoneers is an indication of how the genre has evolved in recent years, I'll need to start. Unbelievably, I was on the edge of my seat for the opening chapter to see if Susah was going to survive. Books don't do that to me, or at least they never did before. I'd never imagined the Nephilim looking the way C.D. Sutherland describes them--more scary than any dragon. Sometimes, I felt like I could actually see the "invisible things" that only Susah could see. I don't want to spoil the story, but I recommend reading the free sample if you have any doubts--this is a great book. Dragons, giants, lightening bolt guns and I actually felt like the story was real while I was reading it. I think it would make a great movie. Waiting for the next book in this series, in the meanwhile, need to check out some of the recent fantasy books to see if they compare.

I have been a fan of the fantasy literature genre ever since I was a child. I have eagerly read and enjoyed many books such as the the Harry Potter series, the Lord of the Rings, the Inheritance Trilogy, the Dragonriders of Pern, and the Chronicles of Narnia. I was therefore excited by the idea of this book.

However, Book One of the Chronicles of Susah is different from all of these other series I mentioned - this particular book is set in historical places, coincides with ancient events, and is peopled with some familiar (and some not-so-familiar) characters. The idea of a time-forgotten, strong feminine-character from thousands of years ago is enchanting! I found myself saying, "Aha!" as the story unfolded and I saw this spitfire of a character filling in the spaces between the concise Biblical accounts of these events.

I also very much enjoyed the mental picture developed by the story of what the world might have looked like before the catastrophic flood as told in Genesis. The speculation of an ice shield is something I've never encountered in my readings before. The way that this younger, less-tainted Earth was described is fascinating to me.

The idea of people from early Biblical times having advanced technology is also something I've not read before. Alternative power sources, advanced weaponry, and the ability to see and hear things that are invisible to most other people make the story of a catastrophic, world-wide flood even more devastating! To think if technology like that had existed before the flood, it has taken civilization over 4000 years to even come close to "reinventing the wheel", so to speak.

I have very much enjoyed this book. It has a quick pace, and excellent descriptive imagery. I found the violence and demonic activity to be intense but believable. The description of society fouled by a tangible demonic presence was disturbing, but it also makes you pull for the heroine and the humans all the more.

I am looking forward to getting to read subsequent books in this series. I hope you will read and enjoy this work of fiction as much as I did.

Loving all things dragon, I was quite happy to get this book. It delivers. There's plenty of good action, characters you can easily envison and the author handles his biblical theme very nicely. The bad guys are bad enough, the good guys not too smarmy.I am looking forward to the next installment!!!

Refreshingly new storyline and plot with enough twists to keep you wondering, well-written with great style and most deserving of a 5-star review, can't understand why anyone would rate it lower unless that have a hard time accepting there was a created world, which might be offensive to some. However, even though this book explores historical Bible accounts via the setting, it does so creatively with no preaching or appearances of God. Noah, a secondary character, reports God talked to him, but it is just referred as a past event, we never read about the actual event. The main character questions blind obedience to the norm of her day, those norms seem fairly logical. The story isn't about "religion" so much as it is about a group of "special forces" protecting the Garden of Eden, and how one interesting girl named Susah plays in that goal. At $2.99, the read is well worth it. I"m ready for book two.

The Dragoneers, a neo-Biblical-based thriller passing itself off as fantasy, proved to be a roaring good yarn that will keep any audience riveted. On the con side of the book, I saw a couple of misplaced pronouns, suggesting additional editorial scrubbing would help this book, however, on the pro side it didn't slow down the pace of an outstanding myth-like adventure. I had to reference Genesis to make sure Susah and her mother Emzara weren't mentioned there. The author made those characters seem so real, as if he had material from somewhere else to validate the extended family. I was pleased to discover no profanity or explicit sex scenes were in the book, I think this is a good read for YA and adults. I'm in-line for the next book of this series.

I got this book during a promotion because it was free and had a stack of 5-star comments. I horde free ebooks when they pop up and read them when I can get to them, the ones that suck I delete, others I keep, I never make comments....and then there was The Dragoneers. High energy start, tons of of action/tension followed by a little pause to show me the fascinating world of the heroine, prefect presentation, then right back to more action. I starting reading this Friday and made it through chapter 14, not ready for another round of action, I went to bed. Then at 2 o'clock Saturday morning I woke up literally sweating from a nightmare that I was facing Abaddon! Gulp. Any who, I had to open the book and finish reading it--nice it was Saturday so no school. Who is this author and why hasn't he written before and where the blazes is the next book? What a ride. Read it and see for yourself, however, be careful of where you stop, or you might have nightmares.

I really enjoyed reading about Susah. She is fictionally placed in a time where it seemed only men mattered. The writers of Genesis ignored her, building up her father and her brothers accomplishments, but they would not have done so well without the women who supported and most-likely gave them not only "inspiration" but also ideas. Susah fights her way in and earns the respect of her fellow dragoneers. Loved the book, I want more of her story.

Awesome book, fantastic story, could not put it down! Really enjoyed it. A great blend of fantasy, syfi...good vs. evil. Can't wait until the next installment is out...looking forward to it!

Side note:

Hope to see this book and the subsequent installments available through additional venues. I wanted to read this and since I don't have a Kindle (I have the Nook), my wife got the book on her Kindle.

The reviews brought me to this book. I found the plot to be multi-layered, several secondary threads leading off from the primary hero's journey of Susah, which cause me to wonder about them. What is the connection between Dachux and Emzarra that riles Noah so much? Was there a romantic relationship years ago? At the extreme, could Susah be Dachux's daughter? Another is did Lilith kill Unotis's previous wife? If so, how did she get away with it? The "crystal skull" - - - what's up with that? Is that Abaddon talking to her? If so, he seems very different in person that he does on the phone. And Zammam, he's more unlikeable than the "Harry Potter" antagonist Draco Malfoy. In a another sort-of parallel, Zammam's father, Commander Belewe, is another bad guy, like a military version of Lucius Malfoy, without the magic--not that there aren't plenty of "special" abilities floating around in this book. While just a secondary character, what's up with Noah? He seems to have superhuman abilities, but he stays consumed in building the boat. I guess if God tells you to do something, you have a lot of other things you don't do. I don't get too excited over prequels, so hopefully, some of the background threads will be elaborated on in the next book, without having to read a book and adventure set in a time before this first book. "The Dragoneers" is well worth the read.