Dragon's Awakening (High Council) [Kindle Edition]

Dawn Ibanez (Author)

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Product Description

Chance Dupree is a young Elemental Mage. She has lived her life in hiding and has spent most of her time to the study of Magick. Now, a member of a team of Hunters, she meets one Demon that changes the very fiber of everything she believes.

Christobal Cavolcanti has spent the past two thousand years searching for two things. His revenge, and the reincarnation of the woman he loved. One Halloween night, he finally finds her. The reincarnation of his gentle love... but when she puts a gun to his throat, he begins to realize that Chance may have his love's soul, but she's her own woman.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 390 KB
• Print Length: 289 pages
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001HL0FRO
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #301,512 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Dawn Ibanez (1978-present) is a self-published author that was born and raised on Staten Island. In junior high school, Dawn discovered a passion for writing. But it was while in high school she discovered her other love, Anime. By the time she went to college, Dawn had written a number of stories for her own entertainment, as well as the entertainment of friends. While down in Norfolk, she started to write under the name Midori Bond and has produced several fanfiction stories still posted around the web.

Since leaving the fanfiction world, Dawn is now a dweller in the Paranormal Romance genre. She has always had a soft spot for creatures that go bump in the night. It led her to start her own small label, Nightwhisper Publishing, in 2009. So far, only her novel Tangled Temptations has been produced by it.

Dawn currently lives in Maryland with her family. No pets as of yet, she's still mourning the loss of her beta fish Rai 2 years ago. :)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Tale - Confusing Telling, February 1, 2010

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Tracy "One Good Book Deserves Another" (Fort Myers, Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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I have nothing but respect for the originality and scope of the author's vision for Dragon's Awakening. It truly was a large, engaging plot with lots of delicious layers and subplots. Unfortunately, the scope and breadth of the story seemed to overwhelm the author and the technical skills necessary to tell such a tale just weren't up to par in this book. For me, it significantly lessened my overall enjoyment of it.

At times choppy and disjointed and at times muddled with mistakes and odd word errors and name confusion, there was no flowing prose to take a reader through the journey of the tale (I'm still not too sure if I just missed something when the author was writing about the vampire Al and the incubus Arkham, who was referred to as Al...despite rereading several sections). Instead I often found myself feeling like I was jumping and hopping around like an asthmatic bloodhound, trying to follow the scent of the story to the end. A strong editor and a few (more?) rewrites would've benefited this book and given the reader a true gem of a story.

Again, the story itself, while not written cleanly, was unarguably brilliant. Good character development, and the characters - some tortured, some flawed, some champions, some a little of everything - were varied and interesting, and really fit well into the plot. And the plot was incredible. I would've liked the exposition to be a little meatier and the world-building to be a little more clear - I had and have questions that I would've liked answers for - but the thought involved to create the world as it was intended is impressive. Very original.

If I could split the review, I'd give the ideas behind the story and the plot of the story a solid 5+ stars - but the way it's written, the technical aspect of the actual words on the page (or screen, for those Kindle aficionados like myself), only 1 star. I've settled on the average here.

I would consider reading a sequel, as there are several threads that are left hanging at the end of this book, and characters whose lives I'd like to revisit, but I'd want to see what other reviewers say about their reading experience first, I think. It's difficult for me to say that, but the mistakes and general lack of a solid prose were quite bad here.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great story, January 13, 2010

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I really liked this story. I loved the flow and how she covered all of the characters' stories and connected them. Whoever edited this as an ebook didn't do a good job. But if you can look past that it is a good story overall.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't anyone proof before printing??, February 5, 2010

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F. Cabrera - See all my reviews
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The story is decent, but the amount of typos make it a very unpleasant read. I don't think I've ever read a book with so many typos. It's distracting and really takes away from the story. That being said, the story isn't great either.