Rebecca Yarros

"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College – Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....

Um dragão sem o seu cavaleiro é uma tragédia. Um cavaleiro sem o seu dragão é um cadáver. Entra no mundo brutal, mágico e envolvente de uma escola de elite para cavaleiros de dragões Violet Sorrengail, de vinte anos, deveria ter entrado no Quadrante dos Copistas, e viver uma vida tranquila entre livros e história. Contudo, a general comandante, que também é a sua mãe, ordenou-lhe que se juntasse às centenas de candidatos que se esforçam...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general-also known as her tough-as-talons mother-has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....