Thunderlight picks up exactly where Firebolt left off (thank God!). Elena continues to try to find her way through the world that is Dragons, Dragonians, jughead boys with mysterious intentions and her ever evolving issues. Elena meets a new classmate who is also a Wyvern. Wyverns are a species of dragon but have two hind legs only instead of four legs like your commonly known dragon…yes I googled it. Paul’s, the wyvern, intentions are not necessarily known throughout the book. You get mixed feelings from all of the book’s characters regarding the Academy’s new pupil, but who knows his true intentions. You see Elena and Lucian’s relationship continue to develop, Elena herself continues to mature and learn more about herself as an adult, and Blake just continues to be Blake.

Firebolt set the platform for many fan theories surrounding Elena’s parents, who they really are and who she truly is. Is she a dragon, a dragonian or both? Guess you’ll have to read it to find out 🙂

My Opinion:

I couldn’t put it down! I read this book in less than two days…

I just had to keep reading!! I honestly wanted to strangle Elena myself a few times and knock Blake around too. I honestly thought I had this book figured out. I just knew who Elena’s parents were, what the plan for her was and that she was going to claim Blake. I can honestly say I ended this book with the phrase; “Are you kidding me?!”.

This novel was written very well in my opinion. Adrienne’s writing style very much fits my reading style. I like stories with a lot of options for multiple theories, I like a good even split of romance and magical mystery, and I like having a strong female lead character that I can find similar attributes within myself.

Elena is very stubborn and doesn’t listen to anyone else’s, forcible may I add, suggestions on what her actions should be. She beats to the rhythm of her own drum and fully believes in the reason behind what she is doing. That is because what she is doing she does with the full capacity of her heart. She is a heroine that I would want my daughters to want to be. Plus, she kicks butt…literally.

This novel was very well written. There wasn’t any grammatical errors, typos or horrible noun/verb discombobulation. There wasn’t a ton of filler in the book that would stray you from the main point of the story. The storyline itself kept a good pace in my opinion. I didn’t get bored or sidetracked with sidebar activities that the characters partook in. They all seemed to tie together in the end and that is always impressive to me.

The only reason I did not give this book 5 stars was because I felt the story could have focused more time on Elena and less on the development of Paul’s character. Once the novel ended, I can see that Paul’s character development could have been intention to the further development of the story but I still wish I could have seen more character development of Blake or the relationship development between Blake and Elena. ( )