Wow, I don't know what I expected from this fourth book in the Dragon Chronicles, but it was nothing like this! I started reading and as soon as they placed it in Alaska I did a double take. Wait, Alaska? The previous books took place in what I thought was a different world, not our un-magical one. Adventures taking place in countries of a medieval time in some fantastical realm. Nope! At first I kind of balked at it, how dare they take away the magic and wonder of the world we knew with Kaeldra and Kara?! Then, the more I read the book, the more I appreciated it was set in a not-too-distant future of our own world. It brought magic to the very place we live, un-magical and slowly being ruined through pollution and warfare. The suspense was at its best in this book and it was quite the adventure!