Fireborne (The Aurelian Cycle, #1)
The Dragonborne are wiped out during the revolution in Calipolis except for Leo, now known as Lee. He grows up in an orphanage as a lowborn and becomes friends with a girl named Annie. They are now training to be dragonriders and completing to be Firstrider. When Annie receives a note requesting her to throw her competition by the Ministry of Propaganda, she gets angry and fights harder than ever and wins.
When information of New Pythos having dragons with fire becomes a reality, the possibility of war becomes imminent. The dragonriders must defend their city of attacks but because their dragons have not sparked, they are at a disadvantage. Truth about Lee/Leo surfaces and he must pay the consequences of his father’s crimes.
This is the first in the Aurelian series. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The story flows well and the characters are well developed. It is written in the present tense and in first person switching between Lee and Annie. If you like Eragon, Harry Potter or Game of Thrones, you will probably enjoy reading this book.
