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119 pages, ebook
First published December 19, 2020
The Citirine Key is an enjoyable novella giving an introduction to LL Macrae’s self-published fantasy series, The Dragon Spirits. You can also pick up the ebook of this novella for free by signing up to the author’s mailing list which I would definitely recommend you do!
This novella follows the journey of Apollo after the Mage Queen Surayo offers him a pardon from his execution in exchange for him travelling to a far off land to offer a gift of peace to a powerful dragon spirit. The story moves along at a pretty fast pace, and for a novella of this length we are given quite a bit of backstory to Apollo and his companions Malora and Yorik, providing a good amount of depth to these characters.
The different spirits seem intriguing as an idea and I would like to know more about them. Also the world-building offered in this novella left me hungry to know more about this world that Macrae has started to create. I am definitely keen to find out more about this series and to pick up the first novel in the series, The Iron Crown soon.