The Ballad of Falling Dragons
Sarah A. Parker's The Ballad of Falling Dragons continues the Moonfall series with a king running out of allies and a woman who'd rather chase death than face her own past. It's romantasy built around dragons, a rising magic-fueled catastrophe, and a central couple worth the wait.
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Kaan Vaegor is out of time, and no amount of magic can buy him more. The Ballad of Falling Dragons picks up the Moonfall series with his kingdom fraying at the edges and letters to old allies going unanswered one by one. Sarah A. Parker doesn't pause to re-teach the mythology she built in When the Moon Hatched, and that's the right call for the book she's writing, but it does mean this isn't the place to start. Readers new to Raeve and Kaan should read book one first, or half the weight of what happens here will land flat. Raeve is the harder character to love on the page, and Parker seems to know it. She's carrying blood on her hands from a kill already behind her when the book opens, still burning for vengeance, and still tangled up in feelings for Kaan that complicate every decision she makes. The plot corners her into an actual choice, chasing her own death or fighting for a future, and that choice forces her stubbornness and self-protection into the open instead of letting her simmer behind closed doors forever. Readers who found her guarded in book one may still find her slow to open up here. That's a fair complaint, and also, oddly, part of what makes her growth read as growth instead of a switch someone flipped.
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