Eleanore Jones, Lora, is a poor sixteen year old, just finishing up her first year as a charity student in a prestigious boarding school in England. The year is 1915 and England is caught up in the war but she is more than just any orphan, she is Drakon ... a being with magical abilities that allows her to turn into a dragon. She soon finds herself caught up in THE DARKEST NIGHT with so much on her young shoulders.
With the war, her friend Armand turns his family mansion into a convalescent hospital, giving Lora a job as part of the nursing staff when she would have been sent off to an orphanage in Scotland. He does this for a number of reasons but he doesn't want her to go. They soon find that Armand's brother is alive and held prisoner in Germany. It is she with her abilities that has a chance of rescuing Aubrey from the prison.
THE DEEPEST NIGHT is an enchanting, magical paranormal adventure. Lora continues her learning experience without Jesse (from The Sweetest Dark) though his voice is still part of the book. Armand, whom she calls Mandy, is the only person she can turn to who understands what it is to become a dragon. She is a strong, loving character, but who is witty and human enough to be able to give back a few digs to the prissy girls at the school without being overly bitchy, something I thoroughly enjoyed. My biggest complaint of this book is that if the reader had not read The Sweetest Dark which was the previous book, they might find themselves a little lost. Some background explanation would have been helpful, but in no way did that lack take away from the beauty and magic of this young adult book.
A rich portrait of post-Victorian England, The Deepest
Night seamlessly blends thrilling romance with riveting
history and adventureβperfect for fans of Libba Bray and
Lauren Kate.Itβs 1915, and sixteen-year-old Lora
Jones is finishing up her first year as a charity student at
Iverson, a prestigious, gothic boarding school on Englandβs
southern coast. While sheβs always felt different from
everyone around her, now she finally knows why: She is a
drΓ‘kon, a rare, enchanted being with astonishing
magical abilities. As war hits Britainβs
shores, and Lora reels from an unimaginable loss, she finds
that her powers come with grave and dangerous
responsibilities. At the request of Armand Louis, the darkly
mysterious boy whose father owns Iverson, Lora will spend
her summer at his lavish estate. To help the war effortβand
to keep Lora nearβArmand turns his home into a military
hospital, where Lora will serve as a nurse. For Armand is
inescapably drawn to herβbound to her by heart-deep secrets
and a supernatural connection that runs thicker than
blood. Yet while Lora tries to sort out her
own feelings toward Armand, fate offers an unexpected
surprise. Lora discovers there is another drΓ‘kon, a
prisoner of war being held in Germany. And that only she,
with her newly honed Gifts, will be able to rescue him.
With Armand at her side, Lora will cross enemy
lines on an incredible missionβone that could bond her to
Armand forever, or irrevocably tear them apart.
Beautifully written, deeply romantic, and filled
with daring adventure and magic, The Deepest Night is
a mesmerizing novel of the enduring pull of destiny, and the
eternal strength of love.
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