This short story (55 pages) is told almost entirely from
the perspective of Liam Cuelebre, the son of Dragos and
Pia, affectionately known to us as Peanut. Peanut is a
Wyr, a dragon who can take human form, like his father.
Peanut is only 6 months old, but he has been growing
rapidly in both body and mind. He looks like a large 5
year old boy, and is already doing high school algebra with
Hugh. His parents decide it would be beneficial for him to
go to elementary school and socialize with other children.
They feel he will be so powerful when he is grown up that
there will be no one capable of providing checks and
balances to him, so he must learn to think of others, and
earn that lesson early, as he will have to police himself.
Liam goes off to his first day of school in first grade,
which is quite momentous. He figures out how to deal with
elementary schoolyard bullies, stands up to an adult bully,
and gets a girlfriend.
"Hey, would you like to be my girlfriend for a couple of
days?"
A startled wash of color stained her pale cheeks. She
stared at him. "Only for a couple of days?"
He had forgotten- she didn't know who he really was, or
anything about him. "Or maybe a week. It's kind of hard
to explain," he told her. "I'm not going to be a kid for
very long, so I can't make any long-term commitments."
Liam is learning how to control his temper and grow up
emotionally, and it's heartwarming to see. I love how Thea
shows us that he is still a child, showing how when he gets
scared it makes his tummy feel funny. We are inside his
head watching him process what to do when he interacts with
others at school, and seeing how an Elder child works
through issues. Dragos tells him, "If you were to talk to
humans about this, they would probably say that things
should be handled in a different way, and I respect that-
but Liam, it's important to remember, we're not human, and
neither are those boys. They're stronger than humans, more
dangerous. They're predators, and they crossed a line.
You know what happens when Wyr go bad, don't you? They can
hurt a lot of people before they're brought down."
We also see a little of the behind-the-scenes of how Dragos
is recovering from his memory loss from Pia Saves the Day
(Elder Races 6.6). This little snippet is enough to
quell
my jitters for the next full length Elder Races
novel, but
I'm craving the next release, Night's Honor, with its
expected publication date of September 2014.
Dragos’s son Liam Cuelebre (a.k.a. Peanut) is springing
into
existence, reminiscent of the first of the Elder Races who
were born at the beginning of the world. At just six months
of age, he has already grown to the size of a large
five-year-old boy. He can read, write in complete
sentences,
and his math skills are off the chart.
A white dragon in his Wyr form, Liam also holds more Power
than almost anyone else. In an effort to give him a taste
of
normality, no matter how fleeting, his parents Pia and
Dragos enroll him in first grade.
They hope school will help teach Liam how to relate to
others, a vital skill that will help him control his
growing
Power. But school has a surprising number of pitfalls, and
relating to others can be a tricky business.
When a classmate is threatened, Liam must quickly learn
self-control, how to rein in his instincts, and govern his
temper, because there’s no doubt about it—he is fast
becoming one of the most dangerous creatures in all of the
Elder Races.
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I am happy to read your every review and always like how beautifully you transmit information and how accurately describe the details in your reviews, something like that I read on https://sky-writer.com/academized-review/ where I read a lot about an academized review. (Finlay Elliott 7:40am August 21, 2019)
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