Genre: Fiction—Young Adult & Fantasy
Completed: 4 August 2011
Summary & Review:
Jay Li has never had the chance to live a normal life. Since he was eleven years old, his grandmother has been training him in the ways of the Yellow Dragon Clan: one of the many ancient clans of people who possess animal spirits within them. At the close of his training, Jay is directed to follow his fate and he is led to a small town in the Arizona desert. Even though he tries to live a normal life by making friends and doing his best to fit in, Jay is soon forced to confront his dragon destiny and become the protector of the people living in the gang and crime infested town. But, he must first learn how to control and wield the immense power of the Yellow Dragon within him.
It was very difficult to write a short, concise summary because to really explain everything this book was about would take a lot of set up and background on all the animal clans, what exactly the animal-people are, etc. Needless to say, this was a very unique genre. It was a fantasy like you would find in a book set in some far off land or time, but it was taking place among modern, more real life problems like gang violence. DeLint was a talented storyteller and was able to meld these disparate worlds into a cohesive and readable novel.
Thank you to Luke, a fellow SC dental student, who not only recommended this book but loaned me his copy to read.
Rating: 7.5
Audiobook Update: I have listened to several more audiobooks lately, including Foreign Influence by Brad Thor, The Renaissance in a Nutshell by Peter Whitfield, and The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr. The last of those three books, The Lost Painting, was fascinating. Harr chronicled the 1993 discovery of Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ and included the history of the work, snipets of Caravaggio's personal life, and perhaps most interesting, the restoring and authenticating process of the painting.
No comments:
Post a Comment