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Jennifer Scales is the daughter of a weredragon and a beaststalker. Weredragons are ordinary humans most of the time, but during the crescent moon
shape-shift into dragons - unless, of course, they are named Jennifer Scales. She
is the fiftieth generation of the Scales family, and that makes her not exactly ordinary. She can change shape into any of the three types of dragon, and she can do it during any phase of the moon. Jennifer is also half beaststalker, from her mother's
side. Beaststalkers are warriors with amazing fighting abilities they have traditionally used to fight weredragons as well as werarachnids, humans who change into giant arachnids at the crescent moon.
Fifteen-year-old Jennifer ha enough on her plate. Aside from having to deal with typical high-school problems like geometry class or the Halloween dance, she
also has to deal with her dragon and beaststalker heritage. She's got a new problem. as well. Her father has just told her
that she has a half brother, Evangelos, who is half weredragon and half werarachnid. He was stuck in another dimension by his mother, who also happens to be the mother of her friend who wants to be more than a friend, Skip. Evangelos has escaped
to freedom in Jennifer's world, and he's looking for revenge. He thinks that his father abandoned him, and he wants not only to kill Jennifer's dad but everyone close to him
- including Jennifer herself.
If that's not enough conflict and danger for Jennifer to deal with, she also has to convince the world in general to get along. Werarachnids, beaststalkers, and weredragons aren't traditionally the best of friends, and Jennifer is half weredragon and half beaststalker, and friends with a werarachnid who still doesn't know about his friend's beaststalker heritage.
Jennifer's life is, to say the least, pretty complicated. She doesn't have much support, but she wants everyone to just give up on all of this revenge and hatred and just get along.
Husband-and-wife team Anthony Alongi and MaryJanice Davidson create an amazing world in this novel that grabs and holds your attention, with plenty of help from
its fascinating characters. Jennifer Scales And The Messenger Of Light is the second book in the series that began with Jennifer Scales And The Ancient Furnace. There will hopefully be a third book in this series, and I'm impatiently waiting for it be published, as any reader of this great book
will be.
Jennifer Scales And The Messenger Of Light is a highly original fantasy novel that takes place (for the most part) in our own world, in a
Minnesota town not far from Minneapolis. That makes it one of many fantasy books for young adults that happens in a world much the same as our own. This novel, however, is one of the best of
its kind. The fantasy element is much more original than the fairies or vampires so often written about (though some of those stories do have original ways of dealing with the topic).
It's a great book whether you have read the other novel
about Jennifer Scales or are new to the series. If you are,
however, new to the series, you'll be sure to want to read
the first book about Jennifer, her family, and her friends.
With an original, interesting plot, great writing, and
awesome characters, Jennifer Scales And The Messenger Of
Light will resonate with teenagers - even if they don't change into spiders or
dragons.
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