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Title: Skyborn

Subtitle: Dragons and Druids, Book 1

Author: Leia Stone

Narrator: Vanessa Moyen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-17

Publisher: Leia Stone LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 44 votes

Genres: Teens, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Alone, on the run, and fighting for her life.

Sloane Murphy thought hiking the Grand Canyon alone after graduation would be an awesome adventure. Until she slips and starts to plummet to her death. Then the unthinkable happens.

She transforms into...a dragon.

After flying to safety and trying to convince herself she isnt having a mental breakdown, the hunters come for her. She runs, somehow managing to stay one step ahead of them. Until her luck runs out. Now the hunters have her, and they intend to kill, not capture.

Thats when he comes for her.

Logan Sharp is the last dragon shifter alive. Or so he thinks, until he gets word that the druids are hunting a red-headed female. His team takes her in, sheltering her because there is a truth she must learn: if the Skyborn die out, then so does humanity.

But Sloane is hiding a dark secret that she doesnt even know yet. A secret that could change everything.

Recommended age 16+ due to language.

Members Reviews:

Dumb lead character but promising story

This book is a good example of why you should push through some books until the end. For first 1/3 of the book, I was planning to give it an extremely low rating. It comes across as very childish in the verbiage and the main characters inner thoughts. Stuff like, "having a half naked dragon shifter hold me while he made plans fir his pet kitten made my ovaries ache fir his babies..."

I mean REALLY?

At one point the main character is told not to lie because someone is a Truth Witch. Do you know what she asked???? She actually asks, "What does a Truth Witch do?"

OMG... I SNATCHED MY HEADPHONES OFF AT THAT LINE!

Seriously, if someone tells you not to lie because a Truth Witch is here ant reasonable person would conclude that they can tell if you are speaking the truth. I mean it's in their freaking name.

So with a Main Character who wasnt so bright... I lost hope for awhile but I pushed on.

And then there was the constant repeating of the sames lines:

"If I die. You die."

"I have to remember that if he dies then I die"

"Don't run! If they kill you then they kill me"

I heard that shit so much I knew when it was coming. I did audio but I bet it's there once on every page for the last chapter.

The concept of the main story is a good one but wasn't delivered/developed well. I felt like the author should have actually given us less. That sounds funny but let me explain: Less is more some times. This first book would have done well with just the Druid vs Dragons theme. But the author attempts to explain the Fae and Fairie land that didnt directly affect the story. That portion should have been left out and left for future books. For me all it did was make me think harder on all the other things that didn't make sense. Example. Why track someone with a spell without putting an actual tracker on their car since they keep driving it to get away from you?

There was also this strange section where Sloan gives the story of her friend being raped. It was sooooo not what was needed there. This book hadn't earned the right to be "deep" and this section felt forced. If you're gonna be a light hearted giggly book with teenage banter and child like responses to emergencies then stick with it. Rape is are dark topic and the character just didn't seem mature/deep enough to pull it off.