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** spoiler alert ** First, a disclaimer: I might be done with YA. I haven’t liked a single one that I’ve read in the last few months.

Right away, I disliked the names Trinity and Emberlyn. Hot, identical twin brothers? Mind reading (Edward much??)? Holding someone whose pain you might empathize with, then making out, then the hurting person getting angry that they see something of those feelings on your face? Whole paragraphs made out of fragmented questions? I could on, just on the “romance��. Not to mention, the dragon is afraid of being abandoned when it hatches... so it hatches early. Also, they leave out how they know it’s too early for a millions of years old, one of a kind egg to be hatching while being limited to using what they refer to as prehistoric equipment.

Let’s revisit the love interests. He’s the bad twin. No, he’s the bad twin. No, wait... she cares for them both. And drywall melts away when on fire, by the way. She has a handmaiden who is only referred to twice without ever being spoken to or described. Not sure how they survived editing. There are plenty of cliches such as, “This princess can save herself��. In the first half, the dragon is a queen in an egg. Once she’s hatched, Trinity is her mistress...?? Aaaand our bad guy is a cultish fanatic citing he is doing God’s work. Did I miss an explanation on how the deformed little dragons were a year old? Oh good, you’re indoors and have released the dragon “into the wild��. That’s followed by mixing themes up one more time with, ”Then you are her (Emmy’s) true mother now.�� and ending with the identical love interests not realizing yet that they are romantic rivals. Just to wrap up the disjointedness there.. Trinity has two guys she’s run away with and is a mistress, princess, mother, and Fire Kissed, which I don’t recall ever getting a very detailed explanation about, either.

There was also part of an escape scene where Trinity runs into the room she used one whole time to train the dragon to hit flying tennis balls with fire and finds it filled with people because apparently this was the place to gather in an emergency, but no one ever thought to tell Trinity this. Then Trinity closes her eyes while Emmy somehow clears the room without killing anyone this time, but we don’t get to know anything about how she does that. And Emmy never uses her tennis ball roasting skills either, so that scene was just a prop to Trinity finding a door behind a wall covering referred to as a both a curtain and a tapestry.

Despite my love for the fantasy and dragons, I will not be reading on.