This week I have returned to my books and I have had
my head buried in Blood of Requiem: Song of Dragons 1, by Daniel Arenson. The
story is a bloody tale about the last weredragons - people who can shape shift
into the mythical beasts. The book starts ten years after the last resistance
was wiped out. Kyrie, who was a child at the time and escaped suddenly finds
himself on the run after the person who has been hiding him for the last decade
is murdered.
While on the run, Kyrie meets the weredragons lost
king, Benedictus, who he implores to help him fight back, but the king refuses.
Things change when their hunters - lead by Ben’s brother, Dies Irae, catch up
with them and attack with their griffins. The rest of the story sees the two
team up with other survivors as they flee for their lives before making a final
stand.
Blood of Requiem has a flowing style with a lot of
great action. This is tempered with some very poetic parts in the narrative
that make it an easily enjoyable read. The book however does focus a little too much on
action and this does account for about ninety percent of the pages. It would
have been nice to have seen more pacing in parts to let the reader digest what
is going on. I also found the part of the dragons being able to talk a little silly.
But this is not a child’s fantasy novel as there is rape and other graphic
scenes within its covers.
Blood of Requiem gets 6/10.
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