On Wings of a Dragon by Cora Taylor is a great book I found because School Library Journal is having me review the sequel. I hadn’t read or even heard of the first book, but I am so happy that SLJ asked me to review the second because I got to discover another very talented Canadian children’s book author.
On Wings of a Dragon is the story of two girls. First is Kour’el who is trapped alone in a tower cell until she finds a tiny dragon who used to be a Great One, or huge dragon. Her story is how they grow stronger, and the dragon grows bigger, and they escape. Meanwhile, Maighdlin, a girl in a small village is gathered up by the queen’s soldiers and taken to the palace to work as a servant girl. Servants are always disappearing from the castle and never return to their villages, so it is seen as a death sentence. Her grandfather and another girl’s boyfriend follow the girls in the hopes of rescuing them.
The many stories converge into a single story by the end and readers will find themselves in a rewarding book that is fresh and new, despite its traditional epic fantasy setting. The characters are multidimensional and sparklingly written.
Recommend this to fantasy readers, especially those who enjoy dragon stories or stories with strong female protagonists.