From the limitless imagination of bestselling author Julie Kagawa comes the next fantastic adventure in the Talon Saga.
Deserter. Traitor. Rogue.
Ember Hill left the dragon organization Talon to take her chances with rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues. But Ember can’t forget the sacrifice made for her by the human boy who could have killed her—Garret Xavier Sebastian, a soldier of the dragonslaying Order of St. George, the boy who saved her from a Talon assassin, knowing that by doing so, he’d signed his own death warrant.
Determined to save Garret from execution, Ember must convince Cobalt to help her break into the Order’s headquarters. With assassins after them and Ember’s own brother helping Talon with the hunt, the rogues find an unexpected ally in Garret and a new perspective on the underground battle between Talon and St. George.
A reckoning is brewing and the secrets hidden by both sides are shocking and deadly. Soon Ember must decide: Should she retreat to fight another day…or start an all-out war?
Title: Rogue (Talon #2)
Author: Julie Kagawa
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Publication Date: 4/28/2015
Review:
Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Teen for providing me with an eARC of this book to read and give an honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
I enjoyed Talon so wanting to read the second book was a no brainer. I love the idea of dragons in a book, it's more unique than other beings I've seen so far.
This book picks up where Talon left off. Ember is Rogue, she's in cahoots with Cobalt, and they are on a mission to save Garrett.
For me, this book started off great and with a blast. I had high hopes. But once Garrett was saved, the rest of the book suffered from "middle book syndrome" though this is not even the middle book in the series since there are 5. The action scenes seemed a bit contrived. As if they were inserted into the book as filler. Many of them didn't move the book along as I'd hope. So the pacing ended up being slow. We did see much more dragon action in this book, though, so that was pretty cool.
I did love the different POVs. I'm always happy to read a book this way as it gives me insight into each characters brain and how they think and see things. And it's always interesting to see how they see things differently from their counterparts. This one still gives us Ember. Garrett, and Cobalt/Riley but as shown in the last chapter of Talon, we now have Dante. I have to say, I do not like him. I know that's part of the plot but I felt his character was very flat. And, while I know the dragons may be much older than their human years, Dante's voice was much older. Given the fact that he and Ember are the same age, and she comes across as much more naive, I felt his character was off.
There's still romance in this one. The building up of the love triangle. But it's not a central part of the plot, perse. It's mostly Ember contemplating why she is attracted to both guys and figuring out her human versus her dragon side when it comes to that attraction.
Does the end of the book come with a cliffhanger? Kind of, sort of, but not really. I mean the next book is called Soldier so, although you watch what happens with Garrett, you still know more is coming.
Kagawa's writing remains entertaining though very typically YA with it's love triangle trope and the FMC always making stupid mistakes that get her in trouble. But overall this series remains fun and I will continue on to see where it leads!
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