FIRST EDITORIAL REVIEW – 5 STARS

Got a 5 stars  Editorial Review from Reader’s Favorite  – happy the reviewer liked my story. I hope more readers will enjoy it and tell that to AMAZON! 

“Well written and genuinely absorbing… Very highly recommended.”

Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers’ Favorite

5 Stars 

In Michael Tars’s There Be Dragon, Kwe, a twenty-second-century special operative, is hurled from a skyscraper during a mission and awakens in Kalador, a kingdom that has just called for a new divine protector. Three young women searching for the legendary Lord Dragon find him in the snow. Kira sees his arrival as an escape from a promised marriage, while her friend Maya has a father preparing to sell her. Nora, Kira’s eleven-year-old sister, is certain her pompoms attracted him. Kalador accepts Kwe as the Dragon reborn, but he knows nothing of the role or the world around him. Neighboring demigods are testing the kingdom’s borders. Meanwhile, the power inside Kwe is beginning to answer fear with fire. To protect the country that claims him, he must learn what becoming its Dragon will demand.

Michael Tars’s There Be Dragon is serious science fantasy, and Tars is excellent at showing what it costs Kwe to be treated as divine when he still sees himself as a man. The most impressive part is how Tars handles power. Kwe knows Kira has been told that binding him to Kalador could save her country, so he refuses to treat her willingness as simple consent while that pressure exists. Tars makes that moral question part of Kwe’s character rather than pausing the story to explain it. The organic humor arrives at exactly the right moments. My favorite is the High Priest deciding Yoda was a legendary Dragon who trained the great Sky Walker after misunderstanding Kwe’s references. Well written and genuinely absorbing, readers who enjoy science fiction crossovers with epic fantasy will adore this. Very highly recommended.