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The Dragon's Egg (Brightmoon Book 6) by [Pauline M. Ross]

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Book 6 of 9: Brightmoon

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A stand-alone epic fantasy set in the Brightmoon world…

Garrett has been many things in his time… street hustler, warrior, professional gambler, spy. He’ll do whatever is asked of him, legal or not. Now he’s paid to search for those with a touch of magic in them. But magic is unpredictable and hard to find, and he doesn’t have much luck until he meets Dru, whose family claim she hatched from a dragon’s egg. She looks different, doesn’t say a lot, and likes to talk to the chickens, though they don’t listen much. There might be real power behind her strangeness, if she could only learn how to reach it.

When Garrett is asked to escort Dru on a journey, accompanied by a scholar, a princess, a guard and a priest, it seems like a simple enough mission, until they fall into the hands of raiders. Garrett has lived on his wits all his life, but he’ll need all his talents, and a little magic too, to get them out of this mess and reach safety.

If he can manage that, maybe he’ll find out the secret of the dragon’s egg, and the girl who hatched from it.

Book 6 of 9

Brightmoon
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Publication date

May 1, 2016
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14 - 18 years
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All the books in the Brightmoon Annals are complete stories, and may be read independently of one another, with the exception of The Second God, which is a sequel. However, the later books contain fun references to events, characters and objects from the earlier books. For best enjoyment, the recommended reading order is:

The Plains of Kallanash
The Fire Mages
The Mages of Bennamore
The Magic Mines of Asharim
The Fire Mages' Daughter
The Dragon's Egg
The Second God (Sequel to The Fire Mages' Daughter)
Findo Gask's Apprentice
The Dragon Caller
The Return of the Mages

About the Author

I live in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland with my husband. I like chocolate, whisky, my Kindle, massed pipe bands, long leisurely lunches, chocolate, going places in my campervan, eating pizza in Italy, summer nights that never get dark, wood fires in winter, chocolate, the view from the study window looking out over the Moray Firth and the Black Isle to the mountains beyond. And chocolate. I dislike driving on motorways, cooking, shopping, hospitals.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01F2JXJQK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sutors Publishing (May 1, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1734 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 259 pages

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I live in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland with my husband. I like chocolate, whisky, my Kindle, massed pipe bands, long leisurely lunches, chocolate, going places in my campervan, eating pizza in Italy, summer nights that never get dark, wood fires in winter, chocolate, the view from the study window looking out over the Moray Firth and the Black Isle to the mountains beyond. And chocolate. I dislike driving on motorways, cooking, shopping, hospitals.

I also write traditional Regency romances as Mary Kingswood.

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lucyblue

Fabulous!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2016

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Dear Pauline Ross - you are an epic storyteller and an accomplished writer and I am so thankful for you in my reading world! I read a lot, usually 3-6 books per week, and rarely do i give 5 stars, usually 3 and occasionally 4, and way too many books i simply don't continue reading for various reasons. But you continue to surprise me in the best way! I love love love this dragon's egg book - another epic tale! What i enjoy most about your writing is how you tell a story without explaining - so much is left unsaid, until it unfolds in the narrative of the storyline, and the mystery of that keeps me intrigued, and the scope of the tale keeps expanding, and somehow it isn't confusing but rather builds suspense and i now trust that you will enlighten me at some point. Thank you!

My least favorite book in this brightmoon world so far was the second god precisely because much of the mystery was missing and it focused more on romance and completing an already known story rather than an epic tale. Series are almost always disappointing to me for those and other reasons. Way too many authors use them to not write the whole book initially and publish tiny little 200 page things (or even less!) that don't deserve to be called a novel, stopping in the middle of the story so they can publish the next one as a new book. I avoid those authors and mention them only to say how much i appreciate that you tell the whole tale. It is interesting to see previous characters in other books, tho in this one i drove myself crazy trying to find Garrett in previous books. (Did you read Sherri Tepper's last book that pulled in characters from many previous books that really had little or nothing to do with one another?) I absolutely love how he calmly did what he had to do in the end even though it almost broke him. I feel you bringing this whole world together somehow and it excites me even while i dread it because i so love how the various cultures have dealt so differently with the same worldwide event. In case i wasn't clear, the romantic element is a turnoff for me so i hope it doesn't devolve into that - thus far you have mostly kept that in the background, or at least enough so that i can enjoy the story, and again i'm grateful for your imagination, writing ability, great editors and especially that you simply keep writing.

I write few reviews because 1. i read too much to write about it too unless something is particularly good or bad, and 2. i personally dislike reviews that tell me the story before i read it so i'd never do that, but sometimes, like now, i simply must write and say thank you! You are moving right up there with Sherri Tepper in my world, except her books are much longer which i truly love, and those are high honors indeed. So again, thank you, from an avid reader who is a big fan.

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Ghost Ride the Whip

Reviewing the one stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 18, 2016

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Sometimes when I read a good book instead of a plain review, I attempt to explain the one stars and in this case, 3 stars. First about the comments referring to sex. There are no actual sex scenes in this book. There are about four mentions of sex or marriage arrangements. I think some very conservative people found the mere mention if a same sex marriage or a polygamous marriage offensive. I am a monogamous heterosexual and all I can say is Grow up, people! Once a researcher type asks to have sex as she has never and wants to research the experience. There is no graphic description. Just "so I agreed, but she didn't not seem to feel anything and never asked again. If that is disgusting sludge to you, I suggest you stick to children's stories. Another comment was it was slow, I did not find it slow. Sometimes slow people can't keep up with well written books. Again, children's section. I will say I don't think the different POV's were necessary. I'd have stuck with Garrett. All in all, I'm glad I ignored the bad reviews and read it. I will read others by this author.

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LJG

An Impossible Feat, All The Books Are Excellent!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2022

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A series of books about mystical places and times. I really don’t know how the stories can be so unique and so interesting! A mystery in itself!

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C. St John

This is book 6 in a great series, all one the world of Brightmoon

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 9, 2018

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This is book 6 in a great series, all one the world of Brightmoon. I've read all 9 of the books and found the whole series a very good entertainment and like a visit to really another human world, similar and quite different than ours. Each one of the books is a great stand alone story, and they all fit together like a great tapestry. If you're looking for a great read, I really recommend the whole series, starting with book 1. It is clear the author is a woman, paying as much attention to how people dress as how they fight, there is a good mix of magic and romance, politics and fighting, yet the characters of both sexes are well developed and end up being people you miss when the stories are finished.

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Shaunti-#1 five star of course the last story of the four Izzy Masterpiece of the book after that

KEPT MY ATTENTION TO THE FINISH!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 24, 2016

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Well, the book was interesting enough for me to finish reading all of it. The main thing that threw me off was so many grammar errors -- especially the subjunctive case. I think Pauline Ross may be British, and we DO know their English is different from American English. Maybe they don't recognize the subjunctive case, but things like that jump out at me and hurt my eyes. "Subjunctive; grammatical mood that expresses doubts, wishes, and possibilities." Like, " I wish I were in Dixie," not "I wish I was in Dixie." Other than that, the writing and story telling was very good, and it kept my attention long enough for me to want to buy the squeal.
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Mary Wild

Deceptive, intriguing story.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2016

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A girl who still looks to be a child. She is intractable, odd, and vaguely frightening. She is more than 30 years old. Many believe she came from a dragon's egg and carries the seeds of magic.
A man, a soldier who fights, loves to gamble and loves the ladies. A person not given to deep thinking, who always says the odds.
A lady, a servant, who sees herself as a princess. She rules only the kitchens with haughty and as much grandeur as she can manufacture.
These 3 set out on an errand. Seeking the isle of magic. Searching for an answer about their girl from the dragon's egg, and if that truly is her birthright.
Many lessons and changes as the trip advances.
Nothing is what you expect.

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Judith L. Jay

Good story but hard to read to the end.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 14, 2017

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It is good. I had a difficult time liking the characters and caring enough about them to read to the end. Not sure that "liking" the characters is a requirement for all though.

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Mages!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 2016

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I really fell in love with this book. A far different world than the one we know - is it fantasy, or does it really exist somewhere? I dislike books that are seen from one character's view, then another's, but it works well in this book. Dragon's eggs that are NOT dragons, but people! Many adventures & mysteries herein!

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jennifer

because I liked the pretty cover

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 9, 2017

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This is my first Pauline M. Ross book. For whatever reason instead of starting at the beginning of the series with a book I already own, I decided to jump in here, at book six, because I liked the pretty cover, and the summary sounded more up my alley. It helped too that I had read in another review that I didn’t need to start at the beginning with this series. Which is true, I didn’t have a single problem keeping up. There were enough tidbits though, that I kind of wished I had gone back to book one, because those tidbits hinted at a huge, and full world.

The story was written in a nice clear engaging style, that ramps up as it goes, making it hard to put down and easy to pick up again. I did find the pov’s a little odd at first, because everyone is third person, but Garret- who is in first, and we see none of Dru. I don’t mind reading mpov’s, I just found it odd that Garret’s was different (Dru’s was understandable).

After I got used to them, I quite liked the way the pov’s were used to open up more of the people and world. As the story progressed, we see the other characters who have rather bad opinions about their travelling companions at times, learn more about each other and their backgrounds etc.. and those views start to soften towards one another. And I found with Garret’s magic-which was that he could see through other’s eyes, it felt more like something we were involved in as well, from a firstpov, instead of just watching him as he did it.
Also, even though we don’t get a pov from Dru, she is very central to the story and we see her change and “grow up” by the end of the book. I really liked Dru.

I am not going to go into the plot because I don’t want to ruin the way it unfolds. I will say, I like where it went.

I do think the only drawback I had to jumping into book six of a series of self-contained stories, in a world as large as this one feels like it might be- was that the story felt like it just quickly touched down in every place they visited, and there were quite a few.
With those little tidbits of the bigger picture I felt a bit like a tourist trying to stuff a country into a week’s holiday. I was torn at times, when the story moved on because I kind of wanted to explore the area some more. Luckily, I can go back and do that at some point.

I should note that all the covers are now as pretty as this one.

c/p from my goodreads