Title: Forest Dragons Book 2: The Huntress Trilogy
Author: Paul Fletcher
Publisher: Page Turner Press and Media
ISBN: 978-1643766003
Pages: 210
Genre: Adult Fantasy Fiction
Reviewed by: Beatrice Makowski
Pacific Book Review
Forest Dragons Book 2: The Huntress Trilogy starts out innocently enough. We meet Kira a huntress and her two companions – male dragons Rakasaye and Kajika. The story starts with all three of them preparing for the upcoming Cold Times, until we learn Kira does more with Kajika than just hunt. Poor Rakasaye feels left out and is jealous of them both!
Not for the faint of heart this book of fantasy includes quite the complicated love triangle. The dialogue between the three characters reads quickly and the pages turn fast for readers who are excited to see what happens next. After Rakasaye approaches both Kira and Kajika about his feelings – he is gone from their dwelling. The love triangle continues throughout the story as the three work together to solve the mystery of an intruder wreaking havoc on neighboring villages. In the second episode of Fletcher’s trilogy – we meet more characters both dragon and human. As the story develops, readers travel forward and backwards through time, understanding several aspects to a winding adventure.
The strong huntress, Mira has great power over the dragons. She speaks to them and learns more about their kind. She takes great and tender care of them. She can hold her own against them both in wit and in strength, but there is still much she must learn about other dragons. This story is the result of a dragon-obsessed imagination running rampant – Mira serves as the anchor and human connection to a mysterious world of dragons that humans have only been able to dream about.
Forest Dragons is not the typical dragon fantasy tale that is suitable for all ages. Fletcher not only includes perverse relationships between humans and dragons, but their language can be quite crude. This book should not land into the hands of a teenager who understands very little about relationships between humans, let alone dragons.
Fletcher’s storytelling style is carried by heavy dialogue featuring humorous jabs by all characters. Though there are serious moments in the story, someone always seems to be cracking a joke or making a snide remark. This trilogy is better read in chronological order and the books do not stand alone well. Due to the nature of the story the second book ends leaving the reader in suspense, awaiting to find out what occurs in the third and final book of the trilogy.
