This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.
Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great time celebrating Appreciate a Dragon Day last week. I spent the day having tea with my favorite dragon and we had a great time. This week I have picked another dragon book that I plan on reading in March. It is the second in a series and I very much enjoyed the first book, Dragon Rider, so I am looking forward to the second one. I’m not a huge fan of the printed book’s cover, so I have included the kindle one which I think is much better.
The Tainted Khan by Tarun Mathias
Publication Date: April 22, 2025
Summary from Goodreads:
Jai dreams of being a dragon rider. He dreams of freedom from the Sabine Empire and a world in which he can lead his people, the Kidara, to freedom. But even though he has his dragon, Winter, she is still growing, just as he’s still growing in his own power. And the road to victory is even more fraught than he had hoped…
Because even when he finds a tribe on the Great Steppe, they are not his people. They are the outcasts, the Tainted, and he finds that he knows little of the political intricacies that take place in these vast grasslands. He is a stranger amongst his own kind, for Jai’s uncle rules, and is loath to cede power to his nephew.
But the legionaries and Gryphon Guard of the Sabine Empire are wreaking havoc against the other tribes of the Great Steppe, and Jai is forced to learn a lifetime’s worth of knowledge in a matter of months. From levelling up his magic, to becoming a true warrior, saving the woman he loves, and strengthening his bond with Winter, Jai is a dragon rider with a massive weight on his young shoulders. And his greatest hope is that the shoulders of Winter will soon be strong enough to help carry him.
Don’t you think that kindle cover is so gorgeous and better than the other one? The kindle cover would certainly make me take a look at the book, and I’m not sure the other one would if I hadn’t already read the first book. The cover is in keeping with the first book’s cover, so there you have it. What’s your opinion of these two covers? Let me know in the comments. Until next time…
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It’s a great cover!
I only heard about Appreciate A Dragon Day this year, but I made the kids watch Zog and read a Dragon themed book to them. I then put my 18 month old son is his Zog PJs at bedtime 😂
Enjoy!
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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