The Adamantine Palace

The power of the Realms depends on its dragons, guarded by their handlers and bred for hunting and war. But a mysterious liquid administered to them is all that stands between the Realms and disaster, keeping the dragons in control and strong a Prince thinking of power and plotting murder to get it and a Queen set on using her daughters to gain a powerful prize adds to the mystery of a missing dragon in this powerful story,... Read Full Review

Far from being the romantic creatures of fantasy, the dragons that inhabit Stephen Deas's debut are implacable nightmares held barely in check by the alchemists who keep them under control. Due to the vicious scheming among the rulers of the Realms, a dragon has escaped her masters and sets out on a single-minded path of vengeance against her captors. But the danger to the Realms goes largely unnoticed as Prince Jehal and... Read Full Review

Prince Jehal is known as the Viper because of his vicious march to sit on the throne of the Kingdom of the Endless Sea. He poisoned potential rivals and tortured those reluctant to support his claim. The Viper allowed no opposition to survive his reign of terror. At the same time that the Viper murders his way to the crown, the white dragon Snow telepathically communicates with her handler Kailin. Snow wants freedom for... Read Full Review

This is the first book I've read by Stephen Deas, and it won't be the last. Firstly, I have to say that I love dragons, so reading a book where dragons are the core of the realms, had me hooked pretty early on. The prologue of this very exciting book shocked me so much that it propelled me deeper into the story right away. In a world where dragons exist and are bred and looked after by the Scales, and then ridden by dragon-knights,... Read Full Review