Soulblade by Lindsay Buroker [Review]

Soulblade (Dragon Blood #7) by Lindsay Buroker
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: July 27, 2022

Dragon Blood
0.5. Dragon Rider
1. Balanced on the Blade's Edge
2. Deathmaker
3. Blood Charged
4. Patterns in the Dark
5. The Blade's Memory
5.5. Under the Ice Blades
6. Raptor
7. Soulblade - Paperback | Kindle
7.1. The Fowl Proposal
7.5. Shattered Past
7.8. Crazy Canyon
8. Oaths

Lindsay Buroker
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

It’s been a week since the dragon Morishtomaric fell, and Sardelle is not convinced that Ridge is truly gone. With a companion who thinks he’s a god and a soldier who would happily kill her, she heads back to the mountains to look for signs that Ridge survived. What they uncover threatens to destroy their country and all they care about.

Meanwhile, the Cofah emperor is furious with Iskandia over the loss of its airships and still has a bounty on Tolemek’s head. King Angulus sends Tolemek, Cas, and Kaika on a daring mission that could solve both problems… or leave them all dead.

Thoughts on Soulblade: *rubs hands together* Okay. So Ridge is missing after his battle against Morishtomaric and, given the state of his crashed flyer, pretty much everyone thinks he's dead. Except, as you might expect, Sardelle. She's not willing to give up on the big guy. And since there wasn't a body...well, she's willing to continue searching.

While Sardelle and Jaxi (along with Therrik) are trekking around the mountains looking for Sardelle's pilot, the rest of the crew are...dealing with things. Things like a bounty on Tolemek's head and an incursion to, err, cause some havoc for the Cofah emperor. To say things are a little dangerous and a lot complicated (for both Sardelle and the other group) might be understating it. They're dealing with rogue magic users, resigned soulblades, a princess on the run, and swamp creatures. Lots and lots of swamp creatures.

That said, there are also dragons. Dragons who are teaming up with the Cofah. Dragons who are disdainful of pretty much everything. And Bhrava Saruth, the dragon who is convinced he's a benevolent god. No lie, I like that irreverent gold dragon and his delight in pretty much everything.