I’ve been reading a lot of fantasy lately, and with Game of Thrones being over, I’m even more in the mood for something epic, even something that includes dragons (which isn’t quite my usual fantasy fare but I’m in the mood!). The first pages of this first impression hooked me right away by setting off my curiosity about a group of men who are a part of an order that is clearly on a mission for a magical object, though we don’t quite know what. Of course then the perspective flips to what I thought was another person, but no! Lo and behold, we have a dragon in play, and before I know it the men have been torched and eaten as breakfast for this recently awakened dragon. The scene switches again to what looks like a tavern with another new character, and at this point I know I want to read this book. There are a handful of characteristics present in my favorite books, a few of them being: they switch perspectives (check), the settings are described well enough that I can imagine the place in my head and wish I could be there to see it in real life (check), has storytelling vibes (check), and had an element of the magical and mysterious or even a bit of whimsy (check). This is sure to be a potential favorite!