In the Time of Dragon Moon
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4.9 • 7 Ratings
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
In this rich medieval fantasy novel, a young healer of mixed blood—half Euit, half English—inherits an impossible task and turns to her only possible ally, the king’s nephew, for help.
“The author’s world-building is detailed and fascinating, and Uma is a strong, admirable heroine.”—School Library Journal
Beware the dark moon time when love and murder intertwine . . .
Uma Quarteney lives far from the mighty Pendragon castle, on the southernmost tip of Wilde Island. Half Euit, half English, she wants to become a healer like her Euit father so that she’ll finally be accepted by her tribe. But the mad English queen in the north, desperate for a second child, sends the prince to kidnap Uma and her father and then demands that Uma’s father cure her barrenness.
When her father dies, this impossible task falls to Uma. If she can’t ensure that the queen is with child by the time of the Dragon Moon, she’ll be burned at the stake.
The threat increases when a murderer slays a Pendragon. Uma reaches out to her only possible ally: Jackrun Pendragon—the king’s nephew, who is rumored to have human, fairy, and dragon blood. Together, they must use their hidden powers to outwit a secret plot to overthrow the Pendragon throne, and find a way to accept all the elements—Euit, English, dragon, and fairy—that make them who they are.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Despite her half-English blood and the fact that she's a girl, Uma wants nothing more than to be accepted as the next Adan (healer) of her father's Euit tribe. But when the English queen, Adela Pendragon, learns that Uma's father has developed a viable fertility treatment, she kidnaps Uma and the current Adan, holding their tribe hostage until the two of them help her conceive. After Uma's father dies, Uma is left alone in the strange world of the English court, harassed by the tyrannical Prince Desmond and beholden to Queen Adela's often-violent fits of madness. The one bright spot in Uma's life is Jackrun, the prince's cousin, who fulfills a prophecy through his unique bloodline: fairy, dragon, and human combined. Despite the Pendragon name, this story, set in the world of Carey's Dragon's Keep and Dragonswood, calls back to Arthurian legend only obliquely, with the author continuing to develop her own rich traditions and political intrigue. Readers who come expecting a traditional fairytale will find their assumptions disproven by the unexpected obstacles in Uma's path. Carey steers these plot twists gracefully toward an unorthodox but satisfying conclusion. Ages 12 up.
