Jo's Old Site

Alison Goodman wrote this book that was published by Harper Collins Publishers, and it has won aurealis awards. Also the book’s ISBN number is 978 0 7322 8800 6 and this enjoyable story is about a boy named Eon who along with eleven other boys is a dragoneye candidate and these boys are in training to hopefully become chosen as a dragoneye apprentice and the one that will be chosen this year will be the rat dragon apprentice but no one knows how dragons chooses the person.

Eon also has a secret, and is told by his master that no one should ever discover it. And this is because Eon is really a girl called Eona and if anyone found out that he’s not a boy the punishment for him will be death, despite the fact that he can see all the dragons accept one which is called the mirror dragon which hasn’t been seen for five hundred years.

Also to protect Eon’s identity he is a cripple, and he becomes rather upset after he discovers that his master had apologized for it: as he knew that Eon was a female and he found out that he arranged for the accident to be done to protect what he really was as it made him untouchable.

But while the ceremony was in progress, the mirror dragon turns up and chooses Eon and he found out that he had to say that his name was Eona but he doesn’t at first because he knew what the punishment was and he had to protect himself and his master and Rilla.