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Adrienne
Woods was born and raised in South Africa, where she still lives with her
husband and two beautiful little girls. She always knew she was going to be a
writer, but it only started to really happen about four years ago. In her free
time―if she gets any because moms don’t really have free time―she loves to
spend it with friends, whether it’s a girls night out, or just watching a
movie. She’s a very chilled person. Her writing career started with Firebolt,
book one in the Dragonian series. There will be four books in total, including
a further two to three books, which will be stories that take place within the
Dragonian series. Her other series, Dream Casters, will be released mid 2015. She
also writes in different genres, and her woman’s fiction, The Pregnancy
Diaries, will be published under a pseudonym. And then, she has a paranormal
series by the name of the Aswang series, which will consist of about ten
novels. And if that wasn’t enough, there is another series, Guardians of
Monsters, which will be released in 2016.
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Title: Frostbite (#3)
Author: Adrienne Woods
Series: The Dragonian Series
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing
Release Date: 9th March 2015
ISBN: 978-0-9946641-1-2
Synopsis
(Back blurb)
Losing Lucian McKenzie, the Prince of her heart and discovering her true identity has made Elena Watkins' life almost unbearable. However, new trials will test the 17 year-old's strength and push her to limits she didn’t think were possible.
Only a mysterious offer from Blake Leaf, the Rubicon and a dragon predestined for evil, reveals there may be a light at the end of Elena’s dark tunnel.
With the life she thought she knew crashing down around her, Elena will have to face a monumental decision about the fate of Paegeia. She can either make peace with Blake’s demands or try once again to unravel the Queen’s secrets that lie deep within her dragon, Tanya La Frey’s, heart.
The third heart pounding novel in The Dragonian Series by Adrienne Wood
Excerpt One
I WAS BACK INSIDE that
cave, the one where Lucian lost his life. I looked around but I knew he wasn’t
going to come for me, he was dead. Then
what the hell am I still doing here, staring at a psycho who claims to be my
dragon?
“You really thought
that I was your dragon, Elena? Seriously?” He laughed that sadistic laugh that
made my insides twist and turn in all directions.
“Get away from me you
freak,” I spat.
His hand connected hard
against my cheek, it burned and my ears rang for a couple of seconds.
“I’m not a freak, I’m a
patriot.”
“Patriot?” I laughed as
loud as I could. “You are a murderer!”
Another strike. The
Elementals clucked like crazy, they could feel the danger all around them and
must have felt helpless. It was beginning to drive me insane.
“Stop it you mongrels,
or I’ll skin you alive,” Paul yelled and for some reason they listened. He
looked back down at me again. The point of his knife was close to my throat.
“It’s funny how everyone around you knows who you are, Elena, except you.”
“What are you talking
about?”
He laughed again. “I
guess they like to play mind games with you, like to keep you in the dark.” His
eyes met mine. “Some friends you have.”
“Stop that, you know
nothing about my friends, or what friendship is.”
“Why? Because they all
end up betraying you at the end of the day. Take it from me; it’s better to
live in the dark. You can do whatever you want, be whatever you want. Your
friends don’t give a shit about you, and neither does your dragon.”
“You are not my
dragon,” I yelled again.
“Oh, I know that, and
for some sick, twisted reason your true dragon wasn’t bothered one bit that I
claimed you as my rider.”
“You are lying.”
“Am I?” He looked
around. “Then where is your dragon, Elena? Why isn’t it here?” The Elementals’
clucking noises drowned the rest of Paul’s words. I could see his lips moving,
but their sounds of pure panic drilled through my brain, making it impossible
to hear what he had to say. It grew louder and louder and then a cannon shot
rang through their cries.
I jumped up in bed,
soaked with sweat. It was like, the gazillionth time I’d had that dream. I
could still hear their clucking and it made me feel like I was going crazy, but
still, no tears came. My heart felt as if it was bouncing inside my ears. No
matter how many times I had the same dream, I could never hear Paul’s last
words as the Elemental sounds kept interrupting him. But there was one thing
that I knew was a lie, I didn’t own a dragon. I was a dragon, and that was one piece of information I still
struggled to deal with.
Bonus Excerpt
DEATH WAS MY constant
companion. I’d escaped its icy clutches three times in my short life.
My first brush with the
spirit I now knew as Death was the night I learned who my father truly was. The
night I witnessed his transformation into a dragon on Interstate 40. The night
we were attacked by dragons. I lost my hero that night, and my world was
completely turned upside-down when I was whisked away to Paegeia: a world where
dragons and magic exist; a world located inside the Bermuda Triangle, hidden
from the human realm behind a magical wall.
Humans have the ability
to penetrate the wall, but if they try to exit Paegeia, they are instantly
disintegrated.
I used to call it my
one-way ticket to Neverland. Now it has become my home.
While the wall may be
limiting to humans, dragons are free to come and go as they please, and they’ve
done so for the past nine hundred years, hiding amongst the human race to
protect the weak, help the poor and trade with the rest of the world.
The second time I
almost died was right after I received my foretelling from the Viden.
Foretellings are a type of prophecy intended to lead the people of Paegeia to
their destinies, but the Viden gives them in a messed up way, in the form of a
riddle.
Mine could mean
anything, but I knew now that it would only bring death. What the words in my
foretelling meant, I still needed to figure out. The question was, would it be
worth it?
The first time I
thought I had figured out my destiny was when I went to retrieve the King of
Lion sword. It was formidable, magical and could slay evil in any form. Brian,
a Sun-Burst dragon, died saving my life, and the lives of my friends who were
dumb enough to follow me into the madness.
The second time I had
the opportunity to fulfill the twisted words of the opaque riddle was when I
had the opportunity to claim Paul, a Wyvern, to prove once and for all that
Wyverns had the capacity to be good like all the other dragons. Once again I
was wrong, and my only love, Lucian, paid the ultimate price. He died saving my
life, but not before I turned into a dragon myself.
I was a dragon, I had
always been a dragon, and I had never known. It was still a mystery why I
hadn’t been able to shift before, and they were still studying why only my
anger and fear had brought on the change.
To be honest, I didn’t
care about my foretelling anymore. People I loved died, and I couldn’t stop
feeling like all of this was my fault.
Losing Lucian took a
huge toll on me. I didn’t want to live, but for some reason now that I wanted
to die the spirit of death didn’t come to claim his prize. Instead I was left
with a hollow feeling deep inside my chest, one that would never be filled. I
was left with a broken heart: ice cold, as if no amount of heat could ever warm
me again. Arianna is right, I am like
poison.
No, not poison.
The people in my life,
the ones I love, didn’t die from my touch, their deaths were written in the
choices I made. All of them were on death’s list; waiting for the day they
would take their last breath.
I’d paralyzed their
lives, their futures. I was like ice, like frost freezing their hopes and
dreams. I was the living embodiment of frostbite.
~ My Review ~ 5 HEARTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I
am in love with this YA series. It is a beautiful flowing storyline with many
hidden areas that keep coming out adding more excitement and intrigue. The
dragon interpretation is described in stunning detail making you to want to be one.
The
characters are well developed throughout this book and the two before this. There is an
underlying message of love for family and friends, friendships that endure hardships
and misunderstandings, and unrequited love.
Elena
struggles a lot in this book with the loss of her beloved Lucian and where
Blake fits in her life. When Blake and Elena are together the reader feels how
much they care for each other.
My
only area of discontent is with Blake’s feeling sorry for himself. I am ready
for him to step up to the plate and get over himself.
This
story answers many questions left unanswered in the first two books but it
leaves one big one unanswered. I am waiting on pins and needles for the next
book.
I
was gifted an ARC in exchange for an honest opinion via Fire Quill
Publishing.
~ My Rating ~ 
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