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When the dragons wake, even magic may not be enough to set the mortal worlds right again................ The Book Of EARTH Volume One of The Dragon Quartet Extracts :
Brother Guillemo gestured sharply. Two white-robes dragged Erde away from Rainer and tossed her like a sack of grain onto her bed. When Alla tried to go to her, another hustled the protesting midwife from the room. Two more jerked the young man to his feet. Hanging stunned and bleeding in their grasp, he looked to Erde, who could only shake her head in disbelieving horror. Then he raised his bruised eyes to meet the baron's.
"What did i say about being used, my lord? Look around you. I have never lied to you or abused your trust. You'll never have a more loyal man than me."
The baron spat in his face. "Get him out of here."
Erde saw only a bearded death's head as Brother Guillemo smiled his self-righteous smile and signaled to his men to take Rainer away.

This is the 1st time i read anything from this author, and i wasn't disappointed, not when she have such beautiful
cover. The dragon was beautiful yet look young, like it was supposed to be , just waken and can't remember much. The starting was already on the gone, none of the boring to climax like what some author likes to do.
The main character Erde was in the 913 era, have a mad priest and one hell bast* of a father. Her dragon, Earth was not that fully developed yet, so its pretty much a human action. But it provides a great beginning to The Dragon Quartet, as i felt when i read the 2nd book.

She imagined Hal defending himself single-handedly against a dozen armed warriors. Earth countered with visions of lances and steel.
-- We must go back!. We can't desert him!. He'd fight to the death to protect you.
The dragon moved away from her, pacing and circling anxiously, sending up rich aromas of dirt and crushed grass.
-- Earth, please! We have to help him! What about the Mule and the goat?
She sent back horrific images of her being sliced and dismembered, of himself having to kill soldiers in order to save her. IT was wrong to take a life without permission. He didn't want to do that.

And of course, our Dragon Guide, Erde, met some animals and folks that help her in her quest in discovering the purpose for Earth's awakening. But don't you think that the animals talk...no animals talks except the dragon.

The fateful kiss in the halls of her father's castle had been a lark to him, a curiosity, a dare. The great love she's fantasized about and broken her heart over was exactly that: a tale spun of her own heated girlish imaginings. Some where deep within her was a sigh that was going to shake her very being when she got around to it. For now, it would have to wait. There was her promise to the dragon to conisder. Surprising herself with her own poise, Erde turned away, beckoning to him over her shoulder. "Come, meet my new friends."

Well our heroine was actually a baron's daughter, and this novel offers a small form of romance, actions but hmm not much magic, no much fanciful and mesmorizing magic, just plain ones like The Sight and healing. But they served their purpose. I pretty much liked the story, the ending was relatively happy yet well not totally...but it will do, after all, life never goes nice and easy.

The above extracts are copyrighted © 1995 by Marjorie Bradley Kellogg. The comments are mine and mine alone and are my private thoughts, no biasedness or delibrate critisisms are made to hurt anyone's feelings.