Before we even get onto the review I just want to talk about the hardcover I received. The cover is unreal. It has a little charm on the spine of the book which I’ve never seen on a book before. The inside has pictures throughout at the start of the chapters. With brief descriptions of each of the dragons.
It’s been well designed and it’s going to look really nice on my book shelf once I finally decide to put it up.
I was lucky enough to be on this blog tour. I’m so glad I was as I really enjoyed the book. I was suprised at how much Robin put into this especially as its only 200 pages. The amount of action in this book has you engrossed from the start. I literally couldn’t put it down. I loved it that much I read the book the very afternoon I received it. (which is pretty quick for me)
This book is my two favourite genres in one book. Sci-fi and fantasy. What more could you ask for. Dragons in space. Actually in our solar system. The dragons actually dwell on the planets in our solar system. Which I thought was pretty cool.
The book starts off with a lad called Stan who has the most annoying sister ever. To be honest we’ve got annoying little sister. Stan loves anything to do with space that hes got a telescope in his bedroom. Stan runs up to his bedroom after he hears a clash coming from his room.
Stan notices that his telescope is lying on the floor. Stan is furious that this has happend and its obvious that its only one person could do this. Stan could hear something rattle inside the telescope and he obviously thinks that one of the lens have fallen out and ruined his telescope. Stan decides to put it back together and looks through it when he gets the biggest fright of his life.
What Stan was expecting was to see the moon in all her glory. Except he saw an eye of a dragon. Which he wasn’t supposed to have seen. What happens next unfolds a lot of untold stories and adventures for Stan to the point where they would become unbelievable if he dared to tell someone.
Book Extract
Chapter I
The whole universe: every planet, star, black hole and life form started with a single atom exploding into a great void of nothing. Right after that, came the Dragons.
If Stan Pollux had known he would be spending the rest of his summer holidays in the outer reaches of our solar system, he would have put on different underpants.
The ones he wore the morning when it all began were too tight and had a faded picture of Ben Ten on the back, which made them look like the child superhero had been specially assigned by the Pants People to guard his butt.
Right now, however, he had more important things on his mind. He looked at the pieces of his broken telescope and thought angrily about his little sister.
‘You’re so stupid! You broke it and even after you were told not to go in my room, or touch my stuff!’ he’d shouted. She was the one who had smashed his telescope but he was the one who got into trouble for making her cry, when it wasn’t her fault, according to their mother – although of course it was! She’d knocked the telescope over. It was obviously all her fault.
He spent the afternoon being made to do chores.
Later, when he got into his room it was ablaze in a blood-red glow from the setting Sun. He got into his pyjamas, watching as the skies had darkened at the top of the window frame and one or two stars winked into view: tiny silver dots millions and millions of miles away.
Stan shivered once more, in spite of the summer evening, closed the curtains quickly and turned on the electric light. It was one of those nights when everything felt weird and a bit spooky.
By the time Stan had got his telescope back on its stand, properly screwed in, and had checked it carefully for dents, the sunset had receded to a fiery fringe on the horizon and the skies were as bottomless and black as infinity itself.
Stan’s palms were sweaty as he handled the cool tube and it was then that he finally admitted to himself that he felt nervous. But was it just the telescope? Everything felt creepy tonight. He took a deep breath, removed the lens cap and peered down the eyepiece.
Nothing. And, yet, there was something about the deep blackness at first glance that didn’t look like right: it almost felt as if he was staring into a hole in Space, and as if, from the end of this long, dark tunnel, something was hiding. And waiting.
Stan shook his head. He was just imagining things. He glanced up … nope, the Moon was bright in the sky between two large oaks at the end of the garden. Stan checked he was pointing it in the right direction for him to see its reassuring silvery light and looked again.
Nothing. Just a deep, flat blackness. OK, so his telescope was broken! Stan felt his fear driven away by anger. Resisting the urge to rush downstairs yelling, or straight into his sister’s room, Stan swung the scope around …
An evil-looking eye, from the depths of Space, sprung open and stared back
Biography
Space and dragons what more do you want in a book. Probably the easiest review I’ve done. If you read this far thank you. You could’ve read this short review lol.
