Ember and the Ice Dragons

· Balzer + Bray · Narrated by Fiona Hardingham
3.0
3 reviews
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8 hr 47 min
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A stunning middle grade fantasy about a girl who used to be a dragon and her adventure to save her new home—from Even the Darkest Stars author Heather Fawcett. Perfect for fans of the Nevermoor and His Dark Materials series.

Ember St. George is a dragon. At least she was before her adoptive father—a powerful but accident-prone Magician—turned her into a human girl to save her life.

Unfortunately, Ember’s growing tendency to burst into flames at certain temperatures—not to mention her invisible wings—is making it too dangerous for her to stay in London. The solution: ship Ember off to her aunt’s research station in frigid Antarctica.

Though eccentric Aunt Myra takes getting used to, Ember quickly feels at home in a land of ice storms, mischievous penguins, and twenty-four-hour nights. She even finds herself making friends with a girl genius called Nisha and a mysterious orphan named Moss.

Then she discovers that Antarctica is home to the Winterglass Hunt, a yearly tradition in which rare ice dragons are hunted for their jeweled scales. Furious, Ember decides to join the hunt to sabotage it from the inside.

But being an undercover dragon isn’t easy—especially among dragon hunters. Can a twelve-year-old fire dragon survive the dangers that come her way in the Antarctic wilderness and protect the ice dragons from extinction?

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3.0
3 reviews
Brooke Stern
July 31, 2024
I honestly wish I could have given this book 4 stars but it just felt like the second half of the book dragged on. I do not feel like the book should have been as long as it was and I couldn't make a good connection with the main character either. Something was missing about this book. It was like it was a kid's book but then not. It didn't have many "feel-good moments" and I felt like it needed more of this. Spoiler**** Why couldn't Ember talk to her own kind!?!? She's a Fire Dragon! It made me furious when she went into the portal to get what her human father needed (a drop of fire dragons blood) and saw that the fire dragons were chained up (apparently whipped and in bad shape) and they attacked her! What the heck? I'm sorry but as a children's book, you would think that she would be able to place her head on the dragon's head through the cage and communicate with it somehow. This book was just cold. Literally, because it took place mostly in Antarctica...just not a fan I guess.
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Huda Alorfali
August 25, 2020
Ember Saint George really you thought readers would not recognize the connection?
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About the author

Heather Fawcett is also the author of the middle grade novels The School Between Winter and Fairyland, The Language of Ghosts, and Ember and the Ice Dragons as well as the young adult Even the Darkest Stars series. She has a master’s degree in English literature and has worked as an archaeologist, photographer, technical writer, and backstage assistant for a Shakespearean theater festival. She lives on Vancouver Island, Canada. Heather can be found online at heatherfawcettbooks.com.

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