Ascendant

Gosh, I really enjoyed this. The relationship between the riders and their dragons being very equal and arguing with each other was awesome, and I really enjoyed the dynamics between Holt and Ash and also between Talia and Pyra. The focus on the main pair with Ash being blind and going into essentially dragon eugenics is such an interesting topic, and the Scourge is a really cool antagonist. And the writing is pretty good!

The only problem I had with this was the magic system being straight out of DnD or a video game. The idea of ‘leveling up' and using percentages of a magic pool, and having a cooldown of a few seconds after every named spell (by the way, who knows what a second is in medieval times?), and having buffs if one eats specific foods just really took me out of the battle scenes hard, and I really did not like it :/