Dragon Pearl (Rick Riordan Presents) Hardcover – Illustrated, 17 Jan. 2019

I loved this book! It is a lovely MG book focused on mythology and set in space. How wonderful does that sound?The characters were wonderful and Min as a heroine was delightful, especially given her awesome supernatural shapeshifting powers. She s feisty and string willed and just perfect for an adventure centred in space. I really enjoyed following her around as she uncovered secrets, traversed space and made new and very cool friends. I mean, I want the magical spork that can conjure food when I want!The plot itself was handled beautifully and was paced very well, the ending was fast paced and full of drama and the main body of the plot had enough challenges along the way to make it interesting, especially because I read this as part of a book club and we always somehow managed to stop at a dramatic point. I adored the mythological elements, especially as this mythology wasn't something that I had known abut before and I love learning new things!The writing too is simply superb, it was humorous and clever and just made the story sing! Yoon Ha Lee is an incredible author and I hope that he makes this into a series because I would simply love to read more about Min and her brother Jun.

The mix of Korean folklore and Sci-Fi was perfection. I am so excited for more of the folklore in the next book when we follow a different mythological character. This book was super fast paced and I was hooked from the start. However, I struggled to gel with the main character, Min, and I had to keep reminding myself that she is 13 whenever she made a dumb decision. I can't fault the book for that though as 13 year old will not make that decisions that I (a 23 year old) would.

Min is a fox spirit, but she and her family have been hiding their powers for as long as she can remember, to keep them all safe. But when her brother goes missing and she accidentally reveals herself in front of the Space Forces official, she decides to run away to find out what has really happened.Even though it seems like I should have known it was coming, I didn't expect Min to have to pose as a boy. However, the way it was done was quite unusual and clever.I really loved the magic system and how Charm works, you don't even have to know all the details but it just fills them all in perfectly. It would be such a useful magic to have. The magic spork is particularly great!

Arrived on time my daughter likes it.