The incredibly important, extremely concerning thing about this book is what happens later in the series. This is one of those books that, over time, adds more and more and more characters and relationships that do not line up with what the Bible tells us is God’s design for relationships/marriage and gender. A handful of books in, we start to see glimpses of this. In later books and series this comes to the surface more and more. If you are interested there are plenty of threads and discussion pages talking through all of the various characters and their sexual identity and/or gender identity (some with terms you likely won’t even recognize).

Also, while we feel like the above point is certainly enough to avoid the series entirely, we do want to point out another important potential concern here. There are quite a few violent moments that are best described as pretty graphic. These moments are relatively frequent and probably more graphic than you might expect from the rest of the text. Dragon is stabbed through the skull with a poisonous tail and the body is thrown over a cliff, they find a scavenger (their word for human) and rip its head off, constant talk of war/fighting/killing, ripping heads off in one bite, a dragon bites the head off of a human and it mentions blood pooling on the floor, a dragon takes its own life in a fight to end pain, talk of a dragon eating other babies on hatching day, poison causing a face to start disintegrating, an older dragon who can’t fly is taken to a high height an dropped (mentions hearing the bones crack), snapping a dragon’s neck in one clean break, a person is eaten, corpses/blood/bones/slicing through a neck/body parts seared off/murdered/stabbed in the heart.

A few other things to know about. There is a set of dragons who can read minds and tell the future. Some talk of magic, enchantment, etc. When asking about his father his mother laughs and says that they have breeding night once a month and then everyone just goes back to their homes.