Poor. A battle between human shapeshifters one into dragons an the other phoenixes because two of them loved each other once, but his brother hurt her so she fled to her people and brought them back as a vast army to raise his nation to the ground killing thousands of innocents in the process. Because that would make him love her again. Or something. Author has no sense of scale or proportion whatsoever and the entire story is basically hinged on the concept that bigger is better, whether it's demons, cavern, city size or everything. Which means that not very much makes any kind of physical sense. Also completely ignores all the canonical law about phoenixes which is annoying.

Just not worth reading. ( )

The people of Requiem born with the ability to shift into dragons. They have thrived, though of course their numbers are nowhere near where their golden age long long ago was. Nova Vita is their new capital and the Vir Requis have scattered across Requiem.

However, early on, we hear of a war that happened 30 years ago, when Requiem's armies attacked the Tiranor, a country that makes it's dwelling in the sands and deserts. No real reason is ever quite given for the war; it almost seems undeserved, like Requiem just attacked a country only because they were different. Throughout the book, I often wondered and wished the Vir Requis had learned from the attacks on them not to go out to war against others and to try to extinguish another race. Now, Tiranor people had risen from the damage the war had caused and they seek a revenge. Their leader is Solina; a lost princess that had been adopted into the Vir Requis family as an orphan. Beside this she also was suffering was ridiculed of her "difference" - inability to shift to a dragon. In time she became the lover of a prince Elethor which was the only light in her life in the court. When their secret romance discovered, it was unacceptable and the king judge her to be banished to desert. In her anger and sorrow she tried to attack the him and was scarred by the dragon fire of the eldest son of the king. In the desert she found the secret magic of the sun that allowed her to transform into a phoenix. The phonix form protect her and her people from the dragons fire. More then this they couls absord the fire and burn the dragon shifters to death. Solina returned to Requiem in purpose to reclaim her lost love and destroy the kingdom. I did like Solina - I feel that she is justified in her actions against this dragon kingdom, although she may have gone overboard.
The war is on and the dragons of Requiem are losing and being slain as the can't fight the fire of the Phoenix. In last desperate action, they must turn to a demon buried deep in the grounds centuries before and a talisman of moon magic that may or may not exist to save the kingdom.

I must admit that much of my dislike for this novel comes from my disappointment in the characters
It seems that there’s not one shred of evidence that either character has a sense of humor. for exemple:

* Elethor begins the novel as a lovesick artist, who spends his entire life obsessing over his lost love. His lost love happens to be Solina, who will kill half his family by chapter three. The moment he sees Solina again, he forgets that Solina had a very good reason for killing his family, and rejects her without hesitation.

* Mori is probably my least favorite character. Her entire personality is “victim”. She’s raped in the first chapter and throughout the rest of the novel, she acts like its both her fault and she’s incapable of defending herself.

I really hope that in the next books things will be improved. ( )