Lindsay Buroker - Dragon Storm, Revelations, Origins, Unraveled, and Gold Dragon

Author: Lindsay Buroker

Title: Dragon Storm, Revelations, Origins, Unraveled, and Gold Dragon (Heritage of Power #1-#5)

Language: English

Format: ebooks

No of pages: 323+322+376+302+417

Reading challenge: Several (or one very long) books from the same author so that you read at least 700 pages by the same author
Rating: 4½ stars

Read: 04.05 - 14.05.2018

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Born with a secret power he must hide…

Telryn “Trip” Yert has always been a little odd, with hunches that are too accurate to explain. Magic is feared and forbidden in Iskandia, so he’s struggled his whole life to hide his eccentricities. As a boy, he was forced to watch his mother’s execution. Her crime? Witchcraft.

Understandably, Trip wants nothing to do with the power that lurks within him, always threatening to reveal itself. Instead, he dedicates himself to serving as an officer in the king’s army, to battling pirates and imperial conquerors. He longs to become a soldier as respected and renowned as the legendary General Zirkander.

But his country is in need of more than a soldier.

After disappearing for over a thousand years, dragons have returned to the world. A few of them are willing to be allies to mankind, as they were millennia before, but far more want to destroy or enslave humans and claim the world for themselves.

There are few people left with the power to fight dragons. For reasons he doesn’t understand, Trip may be one of those people. But if he chooses to learn more about his heritage and the power he can wield, he risks losing everyone he loves and everything he longs to be.

I read the entire series back to back, and honestly, I don't think I could easily differentiate between these five books just because the plot flowed easily and honestly it just felt like one story to me. Sure, there were different plots to each of them, but the romance between Trip and one bespectacled officer made the story flow like one story for me.

I loved meeting some of my old favourites from Buroker's "Dragon Blood" series - some of those characters were more prominent, such as Jaxi and Bhrava Saruth, but they didn't take over the series as their own. It was still mostly Trip's story and really, really enjoyed it.

Buroker herself has said that Heritage of Power is a different series from Dragon Blood and if one wished, they could simply skip Dragon Blood before diving into this series, but I actually feel as if some of the reading experience would be lost that way. I have read all of the books in the Dragon Blood series and I still felt that some parts needed a bit refreshing as some connections between different characters or their backgrounds weren't as clear as they maybe could have been. However, Buroker did a great job at trying to describe these different relationships without spoiling the contents of the other series if a reader hasn't read any or some of those books.

And as always with Buroker's books - once you start, it's really, really difficult to stop and once you do finish with all of the books, you feel like you want more. I definitely want more as I need to know what happens to Shulina Arya and if she finds herself someone as well.