So there's two big themes in this series: dragon bonding, and war. I love the former, but I am bored to death of the latter, which is sometimes a problem. I struggled with most of this book, especially since it didn't have many of my favorite side characters, but the absolute FEELINGS of the last couple of chapters made up for all of it and more.

I've only had Iskierka for five seconds but if anything happened to her, etc.

Tharkay knows how to make an entrance.

I love how dragons are so so intelligent, but think so differently from humans, and point out logical fallacies or things that we just accept as given.