Obsidian review - written by Kimberly Loth

Attention! This review may contain spoilers that could reveal the story line or events that occur over the duration of the book. If this does not bother you, or if you would just like to get a better feel of what this book is about before you read it, please feel free to carry on and enjoy this review. 

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Quick overview:

Obsidian is heir to the throne, when he becomes dragon king he has to serve his time as a human. Being human posses a lot of difficulties as he tries to figure out his future... As well as who will be apart of it...

Dare-devil Aspen, isn't afraid of anything, not even dragons, if anything she is in love with one... 

Join Aspen and Obsidian as they figure out the truth about themselves, their past and their future... 

(Book 1 in the Dragon Kings series: Obsidian by Kimberly Loth)

Read the full summary and check out other books by Kimberly Loth on this Goodreads link.

Personal opinion of the book:

I absolutely adored this book! It was written so well and had so many plot twists that I didn’t see coming. Before I get any further into the review, I want to warn you that the ending of this book MESSES YOU UP! I seriously loved this book so much, but oh gosh! The ending. That just physically hurt me!

The imagery for this book, as well as its setting was so well thought out and I was so very impressed. I did feel as though, by the end of the book I had major attachment issues to the characters and the way that the, Aspen, the female lead’s, personality was written really made me want to jump up and go exploring. Aspen was a kick-ass daredevil who wasn’t a ditsy damsel in distress, and I really liked that.

The character Obsidian/Sid was very different to how I imagined him from reading the blurb, but he was such a sweetheart and was super-hot!

Overall, let’s just say that this is one of the best fantasy books that I have read in a while. I haven’t really found many dragon books that are actually well-written and have a good story line, but I highly recommend this book! 

If you like... then try...:

If you liked the Dragon Kings series I recommend reading the Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvanter. To be honest these books are not all that similar, but I just feel as though both of them were connected in some way... We for me at least. 

Read the full summary the first book in the Raven Boys through this Goodreads link.

Star rating (out of 5):

This book was an amazing read and I enjoyed it so much, I must say, I am a little disappointed that it was only 120 pages long... But every single page was filled to the brim with excitement and left me wanting more. So, I give this book a rating of 4.55/5 stars!

Exclusive excerpt from the book!: 

A gorgeous, humongous black dragon. Aspen’s pulse raced, and a huge smile formed on her lips. She needed her freaking camera. She didn’t dare move, afraid he would fly away.

She’d never seen a black dragon before. He moved toward her until his gigantic head was nearly above her. Twenty feet up, but still right overhead. His wings quivered, and his jaw opened, revealing teeth as long as swords. Silvery black flames erupted from his throat. The forest behind her disappeared. He didn’t set it on fire; he disintegrated it, leaving only smoking ash-covered stumps.

He closed his mouth and brought his head down. Aspen’s heart fluttered, and she took a small step backwards. Her palms began to sweat. He turned his neck so she could look straight into his eye, the sea-blue disk as large as her upper body. His lids clicked every time he blinked. His eyes were haunted, like he was carrying the weight of the world.

Aspen traced one of the scales under his eye, marveling at the feel of it on her fingertips. She inhaled. He smelled like a campfire. A sharp pain stung her ankle, almost like a snakebite, and she jerked her hand away in surprise. As she lifted her foot up and looked down, the dragon jumped. Aspen took a few steps back in an effort to stay upright. His wings opened, and he hovered for a few seconds. Then he was gone.

She’d waited years to come face-to-face with a dragon and could’ve done a thousand different things. Instead, she stood there like a dumbass. The highlight of her life and it was over in thirty seconds.

Her ankle burned. It had to be a snakebite, and she cursed herself for being the third person in the history of Yellowstone to be bit by a prairie rattler. She hobbled back to the car, knowing the snake was long gone. Surely the reptile had warned her, but she was so in love with the sight in front of her that she ignored the ground.

This would put a damper on the Hawaii trip. Aspen’s sister was going to kill her. She called at least three times a day for the last two weeks. Her parents wouldn’t be happy about this latest development either.

The only hope was that it was a dry bite with no venom. Which was possible but not probable. Considering how bad her ankle burned, she wouldn’t be that lucky.

This was the third time she’d been bit. The first had been a cottonmouth in Florida—a dry bite. The second had been a cobra, and that was just a result of stupidity. She was twelve and wanted to pet it, assuming since it was in a glass cage it wouldn’t strike. She ended up in the hospital for a week.

She peeled away her sock in search of two tiny dots. Instead, a swirl of black cover her ankle. She gasped.

An intricate inch-wide tattoo looped and swished, encircling her entire ankle. The pattern was deliberate, a marking of some kind. Where on earth had that come from? She thought for a minute of what would suddenly cause a tattoo to appear on her ankle. Unless it hadn’t suddenly appeared. Had she done something dumb the night before? She thought about the evening and couldn’t find any gaps.

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Thanks so much for checking out this review! This was such an exciting book to review as it was my first ever ARC!!! 
Getting chosen to read and ARC is so exciting and I really loved the book! 

Only bad thing is that because I read it even earlier than it's release date, now I have to wait even longer for the second book to come out!!! But alas, I loved this book and although it was quite short and found that it had the worst cliffhanger ending... 
Regardless, I really LOVED this book!
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Until next time, keep reading!

-Shelbi (Book Ambrosia)