The Swooning Moon Saga: Wing Walker

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Pub Date 27 Jul 2018 | Archive Date 27 Sep 2018

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A girl with a quest to find a sage dragon. Dragons can alter reality, everybody knows…Everything could still change. 


After the Alliance bombed eighteen-year-old Cassie's home world, only the megalopolis Capitol survived under its blue dome. In the wilderness, among thousands of broken-down amusement parks, awaits a harsh world: dragon poachers raid the air, while gangs of youth pace the marshlands looking for magical items to sell for a few coins.


Cassie just ran away and joined the scavengers. She is heartbroken from a tragic accident, but on Swooning Moon, everybody knows dragons can alter reality. All she needs is a sage dragon’s Oath…Right?


More used to dragon-singing at her parents’ opera house, she doesn’t exactly know her way around, but she finds an ally in Jay Tachebana, the rascal son of the most affluent mobster, who flies around in samurai attire in his father's billion-dollar racer craft hunting dragons.


When Cassie and Jay venture deep into uncharted grounds, they discover there's a good reason why Swooning Moon is encased in guard spells--and underneath the spell walls, something is awakening.

A girl with a quest to find a sage dragon. Dragons can alter reality, everybody knows…Everything could still change. 


After the Alliance bombed eighteen-year-old Cassie's home world, only the...


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The most crucial aspect of Finnberg’s novel that stuck with me revolves around the characters themselves. All too often characters blend together and don’t come across as genuine. There is nothing unique and noticeable to the readers in these characters. They tend to just fall flat. However, in wing walkers, this is not the case.

I loved how the author craftily provides each character their own tones and personalities. This was most evident in the speech and movements of each individual. There are a lot of memorable features. As a reader, it made my heart happy. I could easily point out who was speaking without being told something. A technique that takes talent. The most favorable part of the book is how interesting the world is and all the mystical creatures involved. I loved the dragons. Finnberg brought a new twist with this one. Each dragon has their own diverse traits leaving me feeling like everything in the book had a rich flavor. This was enough to hold my interest!

The very first scenes left me crying buckets at the tragedy and emotion reading the situation through Cassie’s eyes. The sympathy she possesses for the creature she sees being harmed is heartbreaking. It totally toyed with my emotions.

The only thing I thought could have been done better is the middle. I did find myself getting a tiny bit bored. The middle felt slightly slower. The pace of the novel isn’t a very fast one to begin with. I do love how touching and caring the main character is. She is an absolute sweetheart. The ending of the novel left me feeling rather surprised but do not want to discuss too much of that because I am attempting to not reveal spoilers. It is definitely worth picking up and reading!

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Very well written young adult fantasy book. Kept the supposed grown up interested and engaged throughout and very much wishing for more!

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Her best friend has died and she has gone to another world to find a dragon she can heal and get an oath she can use to bring her friend back to life. This world has been bombed and it's filled with old theme parks, dragons and poachers...

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Besides getting dirty and seeing black wispy things to scare her, she's not having much luck. She finally sings hoping to draw one out. She finds one, but the poachers come and grab it. They cut off the wings so it will be subdued on the ride back to the compound. She's upset to see that but she can do nothing about it. Then another dragon shows up and starts attacking. One of the poachers tells her to come inside the ship for safety. She does. She also finds she likes him.

She meets Wingwalkers that use old songs and lore and make friends with some of the dragons. She hangs with them for a while but moves on.

She and Jay (the poacher) get closer the more they see of each other. He helps her search for dragons. As she searches she meets other beings who tell her to let her friend live in her memories, she's never really gone.

This was very good read. It is a well-drawn out space opera that was fun to read. I'd read the next book in this series. I see her and Jay becoming a couple...

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Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Destroyed worlds and dragons? yes please!
This books is very fast-paced in some parts but the demeanor of the animals and the interactions with the characters is so well done. It makes me jealous i'm not a summon-singer! There is intrigue and danger on almost every page, i wanted to be on this adventure with Cassie.
Some of the side characters could have used a little more detail but this book had me hooked from the beginning and i couldn't stop reading, and reading, and reading.
If there was a second book i would definitely read it only to find out what happens AFTER. there were a few moments in this book that felt extremely rushed over, they were touched on for a page or two and then were done. We have to culmination to a big battle yet the whole thing is only a few pages with very little detail? i wanted more! more Heroism and more connecting with the dragons to do real damage. I would've liked a better resolution to the end of the book instead of this chopped ending where I'm left with too many questions.

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I was immediately attracted by the blanket and you see Jay and Cassie in front of a dragon and a big fair wheel behind.

Cassie is looking for a wise dragon because they can change the course of things. At the age of eighteen, she ran away and joined the scavengers, her heart broken by a tragic accident, she wanted a wise dragon to take an oath. She will meet Jay and they will venture into unknown lands.

A first volume that I devoured in one fell swoop so much I hooked on the story so moving, captivating and full of suspense and twists and turns as well as the characters, especially Cassie. Looking forward to reading on.

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Loved the dragons and scifi aspect of this book. Some parts were slow, but stick with it and you will be rewarded.

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