My book report is on a book named Dragon Slippers. The writer thought about writing a book like this after falling in love with dragon-fantasy books. The author’s name is Jessica Day George.
The book is about the main character, Creel, who fights the Roulaini army, and in the process, befriends a dragon named Shardas and finally defeats Roulain. This book, like most others is motivating. Have you ever experienced dragon riding? This book colors the picture in your mind of how it would feel.
I like how this is fiction because the author could put in all her imagination and change the story in however way she wanted to. Dragon Slippers starts off with the main character, Creel, getting “gifted” to a dragon by her aunt who considered Creel as just another mouth to feed. In the cave she bargains a pair of slippers from the owner – Theoradus- which strangely itch!
After encountering a band of robbers looking for wealth, Shardas, the dragon Creel made friends with, fed her well and let her sew the patterns of his hoard, stained glass windows, for embroidery on her dress.
In the middle of the story, as Creel travels to the King’s Seat, she works at a posh shop owned by Derda. There she meets a few girls named Marta, Larkin and Alle. Marta and Alle help Creel go to the Merchant’s Ball. The Merchant’s Ball is an annual fair where a few people try to sell new patterns for dresses. Larkin on the other hand, helped the Roulaini princess, Amalia, by giving her the power holding slippers to fight against the King’s Seat, and this time win. The slippers as described in the book are a way to communicate with dragons and vice versa.
After finding out about the magical powers of the slippers, Creel gets worried that the King’s Seat will lose to the Roulaini because the last time they had war, the dragons were on their side. Creel takes side with Feniul, the only dragon not attached to the power of the slippers. They then make collars along with crown prince Luka, Marta, and a few others. The collars are what makes the dragons free from the hold of the slippers magic powers. Then the collars were forced on to some of the dragons like Niva, Amacarin, and Feniul. After putting the collars on Niva and Amacarin, Creel rode Niva to find either Larkin or Amalia. She succeeds in finding Larkin with the help of Luka and they force her to tell them where Amalia is. When Creel enters the spot where King Caxel was hiding, she finds Amalia with the help of Feniul. There she finds Shardas’ wife Velika and tells her not to listen to the power of the slippers. Both Shardas and Velika were believed to be dead after jumping in the Boiling Sea.
If you are a person who loves fantasy and make believe, this is the right book for you. I mean wouldn’t you love to ride a dragon? Or for that matter even see one? I would heavily recommend you to read this book because it contains the adventurous journeys of Creel and breathtaking views and unexpected plot twists in the story. The author describes the characters and their revolving story in great details which makes you believe as if you are actually a character in the story along with them! This story also enforces the learning in not to judge a book by its cover. Use your judgement to analyze and make conscious decisions. For example, Larkin was described as nice and always portrayed as helper to Creel however, she turned out to be nasty in the end. Marta was described as sassy but she actually was nice.