The Dragon's Promise Book Review

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The Dragon's Promise

Six Crimson Cranes #2

By: Elizabeth Lim

★★★½

Princess Shiori made a deathbed promise to return the dragon's pearl to its rightful owner, but keeping that promise is more dangerous than she ever imagined.

She must journey to the kingdom of dragons, navigate political intrigue among humans and dragons alike, fend off thieves who covet the pearl for themselves and will go to any lengths to get it, all while cultivating the appearance of a perfect princess to dissuade those who would see her burned at the stake for the magic that runs in her blood.

The pearl itself is no ordinary cargo; it thrums with malevolent power, jumping to Shiori's aid one minute, and betraying her the next—threatening to shatter her family and sever the thread of fate that binds her to her true love, Takkan. It will take every ounce of strength Shiori can muster to defend the life and the love she's fought so hard to win.

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Thank you to Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for the arc! All thoughts are my own.

First off, cover appreciation that is gorgeous 🥵😍👏🤌

First off, I think Six Crimson Cranes would have been great as a standalone. But, this didn't hurt. I could see how passionate the author is about this book through the writing, but for me, this one didn't get to it's predecessor's level.

The Dragon's Promise begins where Six Crimson Cranes left off. Shiori is going to fulfill her promise to Raikama and give the pearl back to its rightful owner: The Wraith. But problem is she ALSO made a promise to Seryu to give the pearl to the dragon king.

The positives!!! 😍😍😍

- THE WRITING! Elizabeth Lim's writing is so great!!! It's descriptive but not TOO descriptive and it's so pretty and flows very nicely.

- SERYU!!! He's one of my favourite characters in the duology, so happy he got more page time in here. I felt bad that he did so much for Shiori only to get rejected 😭😭 but he's such a cinnamon roll i love him. THIS LINE MADE ME FAKE SOB THOUGH...

"Then I'll have to find you when you're reborn - before your strands have time to knot with his again."

- KIKI!! She is adorbs I love her.

- The plot was good, nice twists and turns.

The negatives 😞😞😞

- The biggest thing, it was just so SLOW! Honestly I was a bit bored. I think the author could have cut a hundred pages and made the whole thing more concise.

- Takkan and Shiori, I feel like Takkan has reason to love her and he does and he's totally romantic and all. But Shiori loves him just because?? It feels a bit wooden and stiff from her end. (I wouldn't have minded Shiryu 🥰)

- I feel like Shiori was almost dying every chapter. At the start it was like oohh cliffhanger!! But then it happened again... and again and it just felt boring.

All in all, good book! But it could have been a little shorter ❤️

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