The Waking Dragon (Obernewtyn Chronicles, Book 8)

By Isobelle Carmody

The post-apocalyptic myth sequence reaches its heartbreaking, world-shaking conclusion!

Award-winning Australian writer Isobelle Carmody concludes the epic tale of Elspeth Gordie, a heroine within the vein of Tamora Pierce's so much memorable and empowering protagonists. the ultimate bankruptcy within the eight-book Obernewtyn Chronicles, The Waking Dragon is a YA delusion novel many years within the making.

After years spent suffering to stability her wishes along with her duties, Elspeth Gordie has absolutely embraced her function because the Seeker. Battle-scarred and lovelorn, haunted by means of stories of her cherished Rushton, Elspeth isn't ready for what she unearths on the finish of the black highway she travels: the Compound, a misplaced group with a startling mystery. As Elspeth strives opposed to her captors, she learns that Rushton and her buddies have fallen into the fingers of the lethal slavemasters that rule the crimson Land. And worst of all, as Elspeth stumbles, the Destroyer creeps ever toward his target: awakening the cataclysmically damaging weaponmachines that Elspeth has been charged with preventing. Has all her sacrifice been in vain?

Full of romance, motion, and suspense, The Waking Dragon is a necessary finale to one of these breathtakingly intricate sequence.

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I used to be struck by means of how darkish the blue shadows have been lower than her eyes, like bruises. Ahmedri introduced a mug of water and helped raise her head to drink it. She couldn't deal with greater than 1 / 4 cup. “You glance so like him,” she informed the tribesman, and while he frowned, she additional, “Straaka. ” “He used to be my brother,” the tribesman acknowledged. “He stated I should still return, for i used to be wanted. He stated Maruman was once calling to me. Then the wolfman got here and he desired to convey me down, yet i used to be afraid. yet Straaka saved telling me I needed to move down,” she whispered. She closed her eyes for a second, and that i took her hand in mine. She opened her eyes to examine me, and that i requested, “Dragon, are you able to let us know why the fellow who held you captive introduced you to the mountains? Did he make you inform him the place to discover us? ” She frowned. “He acknowledged he needed to take me into the mountains and that i used to be to guide him to you and his sister. I advised him that i didn't understand him or his sister yet he didn't pay attention. occasionally he stated that he may kill us either and different occasions he acknowledged he may allow me pass while I introduced him to his sister. He had a few nutrition firstly, yet he was once unwell whilst he took me prisoner and he obtained worse within the mountains after which he didn't care approximately nutrients. He concept i would try and run away simply because he used to be in poor health, so he sure my fingers and toes and tied me. ” She was once trembling and her eyes had long gone glassy. “He smelled so undesirable yet his eyes have been worse than his scent. occasionally he suggestion i used to be his sister. He acknowledged she had run away and that he needed to locate her and punish her. He harm me …” She stopped and swallowed, after which she acknowledged within the comparable infantile voice as she had used while first she woke, “He was once a foul guy. ” “He was,” Analivia stated fiercely, drawing Dragon’s blue gaze. “But now he's a lifeless undesirable guy, so he can’t damage someone ever back. ” She used to be trembling, too, and Swallow got here to place his arm round her and draw her away, asserting they'd organize a few nutrients. Ahmedri and that i exchanged a glance, whilst Dameon took Analivia’s position and laid his hand unerringly over Dragon’s. Seeing him, she smiled. “Guildmaster,” she murmured, and whilst he shifted his hand to her face, she grew to become her head to press her cheek to his palm. “Rest, baby, and we are going to watch over you,” Dameon stated, and since i used to be preserving her different hand, I felt him emanating convenience and serenity to her. but if she closed her eyes back, I felt a jab of panic. Dameon shook his head at me and stated softly, “She is slumbering obviously. don't worry, Elspeth. allow her leisure. you could ask her your entire questions whilst she wakes. it truly is greater than lucky that she woke the following after we have a hiatus in our trip. ” “Yes,” I murmured, infrequently in a position to take up that she had woken and remembered me. It used to be transparent adequate that Atthis had manipulated Moss to carry Dragon to me. without doubt the loss of life fowl were not able to wreck during the fierce defend approximately Dragon’s brain. yet Moss’s brain could were effortless to penetrate, specially if the insurgent had bought carry of a demonband earlier than escaping the Councilfarm, for his affliction might were complicated adequate that he may have risen to the dreamtrails in an subconscious spirit-form.

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