Spotlight “Alliana, Girl of Dragons” by Julie Abe

Hello, friends!

I know, new blog and I’m already MIA. BUT I have a good reason for that. Guys, I’m moving! After looking for a flat for months we have finally found one! I will tell you all about it but just know that that’s the reason it’s so quiet here because it’s chaos here as I’m sure you can imagine – all my stuff is in boxes or halfway in boxes, I have no idea in which one my laptop charger is (I’m writing this on mobile and hope it will look halfway decent.) and there is still so much to do.

Anyway, I am part of the blog tour for “Alliana, Girl of Dragons” by Julie Abe! TBR and Beyond Tours was nice enough to let me change my post into a short spotlight, so you should definitely check out the other posts on the tour!

Synopsis:

Once upon a time, Alliana believed in dreams and fairy tales as sweet as spun-sugar clouds. Alliana wished on shooting stars, sure that someday she and her grandmother would be able to travel to the capital city to see the queen. Then her grandmother passed away—and those dreams disappeared in a disenchanted puff.

Now Alliana’s forced to attend to the whims of her wicked stepmother—with long days of cleaning her stepfamily’s inn as her skin burns raw or staying up until the crack of dawn to embroider her stepsister’s ball gowns. Until she meets two beings who change her life forever—the first is a young nightdragon who Alliana discovers she can magically talk to. And the second is Nela, a young witch.

Nela needs Alliana’s help navigating the mysterious abyss, filled with dangerous beasts, a place Alliana knows by heart. Alliana sees Nela’s request as a chance to break free of her stepmother’s shadow and to seize a chance at a life she’s barely dared to hope for—but there’s a risk. If caught, Alliana will be stuck working for her stepmother for the rest of her life. Can Alliana truly make wisps of dreams into her own, better-than-a-fairy-tale happily ever after?

Inspired by the Japanese Cinderella story and set in the same world as the Eva Evergreen series, this story can be read as a standalone.