Review of Flying Blind (The Dragon Diaries #1) by Deborah Cooke

Description 

Zoë Sorensson is perfectly normal, except she's been told she's destined for great things. Zoë's the one female dragon shapeshifter of her kind. But Zoë is at the bottom of the class when it comes to being Pyr and her powers are AWOL, so she's sent to a Pyr boot camp.

Zoë quickly realizes that she has to master her powers yesterday, because the Pyr are in danger and boot camp is a trap. The Mages want to eliminate all shifters and the Pyr are next in line-unless Zoë and her friends can work together and save their own kind.

My Thoughts
Look at the cover, I love the cover, the dragon part of it is just stunning, the fact she looks like she wants to tell me something and her eyes are so stunning. The title is also very intriguing. The main reason for me to read this was because my sister said it was good and said I could read it. Never say no to a book.

I am glad I didn't say no, because I loved it. From start to finish more stuff kept happening for me to go "I want more, I need more". I think I read the first 2 chapters and then I was like, I am so glad I'm reading this. This book has an interesting storyline, and great ideas thrown into the book. The pace of the book was in an interesting pace and it kept me reading until the very end, and even then I wanted more. The characters in this book are well thought out, and also the emotions in this book was well done. The concept of being a shapeshifter is very interesting (I really want to be a shapeshifter). The POV is focused around the main character Zoë.

Zoë is such a brave and amazing girl, she's known that she's the only female Pyr but she hasn't got any powers ,well none she knows about. In this book she does things which she thinks is right, she solves problems which no others have, and she goes through some hard stuff. She's strong and confident when she needs to be.

Megan is Zoë's friend in school, she's not in this book much, but I feel sorry for her as she cant know what Zoë is.
Nick, Liam, Garrett are Zoë's friends and they are Hot there to go to boot camp too. They play a big part in this book because they help Zoë throughout the book, until something happens and it seems they are turning against her. Out of all of these 3 boys, I preferred Liam, to me he was the kindest and most supportive of Zoë.
Jared at first I wasn't too keen on him, he came out of the blue, and I felt something was wrong, but as i got more into the book I realised he's a nice and kind guy who really does want to help Zoë.
Isabelle to me seemed like a stuck up girl, but as the book went on, I really started to like her. She helps when she can and she is a really nice girl.
Adrian, when I first met him in the book I had warning signs in my head saying "He's trouble". He helps out everyone and they just go along with it thinking that he is meant to be at the book camp but as Zoë discoverers some stuff not everything is at as it seems.
There is more characters including her Dad and many more but I feel this book revolved more around these as they were all at the boot camp and they were all with Zoë. I loved most of the characters even the evil and mean ones.

My overall opinion of this book is, it was amazing and stunning. I loved the whole book. There wasn't a time where I felt it was boring and to have a need to put it down. I read it so quickly because I loved it.
I would recommend this book to EVERYONE who reads YA, who loves a book about dragons or shapeshifter's.

Tara

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Get A Taste: Flying Blind

Rea of Rea's Reading and Reviews and I often read very different books but sometimes find interesting new books to potentially add to the ever-growing monsters that our TBR piles have morphed into. However, we know that we do not have 100% the same taste and we wanted another way of getting a look at these books...

Do you ever feel like getting a bit of a taster for a book you’ve been thinking of reading but aren’t fully sold on yet? Do you feel like sharing a taster for your current read with the world? Well, here’s your chance.

Each week the random number generator will pick a number between 1 and 100 for books with pages or 1 and 25% for ebooks. We figured that these numbers would keep us out of spoiler territory. Open your book to the specified place and pick a paragraph. Share it with the world!

This week its: 
Page number: 22
Kindle/ebook: 13%


My Teaser: 

'"Better make your shot next time, Jameson," Suzanne hissed. "I don't like losing." She tossed Meagan's glasses carelessly toward her, probably hoping they'd break when they hit the tiles.'


This was very hard to pick somthing which wouldn't give away anything from the book.
I have read this book and the second one and they are both great :)
If you love YA and books with Dragons and magic then this book is for you :)


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The Cover Wars: Flying Blind

Rea of Rea's Reading and Reviews and I decided to get together to do a weekly meme where we would compare covers of the UK editions of books with those of the US editions.

The aim of this is to just have a bit of fun. We put ourselves in the position where we see both of these books side by side in the bookstore. Which would we choose? Why that one and not the other?

This week, we will be comparing the UK and US covers of Flying Blind by Deborah Cooke, I have read this book and I loved every moment of it, it is definitely a book for everyone to try to read.

The First book is the UK version and the Second one is the US version.

Tara says: I can't help but think that on the US version the girl looks very depressed and serious about something. What’s more, I know this book is about dragons and there's only a small picture of a dragon. The UK one has a much bigger picture of a dragon and the girl’s hair being messy makes me want to read more. I also like the girl’s eyes in the UK one. I am going with UK though they both look very similar.

Rea says: Honestly, if I came across either of these books in the store I’m not sure I’d give them more than a passing glance. The US one is fairly generic. The girl’s got the Kristen Stewart sort of look that’s become so popular since the Twilight movies came out. To me, she also looks… well, bored. In contrast, the model on the UK cover has got that come-and-let-me-tell-you-a-secret look in her eyes. I’m not sold on the hair covering one side of her face, though. In the end, I’ve brought it down to the text of the title and the image of the dragon. I prefer both on the UK cover so UK it is.

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Week 7:     US: 1    UK: 3    Draw: 2


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