Packed with human struggles from overcoming societal prejudices to battling self-deprecation and self-inflicted uncertainties, Ciara Gold weaves an intriguing story that holds the reader enmeshed in the characters plight throughout her tale Celestial Dragon. Gold's storytelling is intense and descriptive, giving readers insight into the imaginary celestial world that she crafts for her characters.
In this sci-fi dimension of dragons, paranormal abilities and otherworldly space ships and treasures that she depicts, Gold writes the characters to be relatable to main street readers, exhibiting human flaws and primal needs. In addition to exploring human struggles, Gold sows suspense and mystery into the tale that has the effect of drawing the reader in deeper.
Set in 3015 AD in a galaxy unknown in the 21st century, Gold plunges the reader into a fantastical realm with its own unique vocabulary, where ebondharde describes a character's eye color, nezarine represents a tone in one's hair, and zeel is a resource that is very desirable. It is debatable as to whether the main focus is the hero, Dane Charst, or the heroine, Chelian Kar. Regardless, the reader becomes enamored of both of them as well as the tertiary characters.
Dane seeks to reclaim his heritae as a protector of the Verside people in the Burdven Empire, as he and over 200 of his men are exiled to Pelicoscia in a faraway galaxy. There, he and his men train dragons, the native life form on the planet. Chelian is the only daughter of Sire Bande Kar, the High Chancellor of the home unit of Kel in the province of Bastia on the planet of Satobik. She is an outcast, born a Deliphit, which is described as having the paranormal ability to render her opponent defenseless. Even having the supernatural gift to shift into the bodily form of another person, possessing a chameleon quality.
A romance between them flares, as Chelian seeks to find approval as the person she is, and Dane seeks justice for what has been taken from him. Societal prejudices and rigid dictates are reminiscent of the dark ages or early medieval civilizations. However, Dane and Chelian share a penchant for forward thinking that marks them as leaders of a modern age of humans.
Though the characters insecurities, suspicions and misgivings are repeated more often than is necessary, they mirror humans who find shelter and security being stuck in a rut. Gold uses the common trope of love at first sight for both the main characters and tertiary characters but puts a twist to it that makes Celestial Dragon an original tale, spawned from a wild imagination.
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