After sealing the vale and forcing the dragons back to their world, Arcady and Everen suffer the pain and loss of their broken bond. Now believing that Everen dead Arcady has to pretend that they’re fine and a completely normal person as they attend school. However, when the bond starts to reform and link the two in dreams, will they try to fix the bond again or will they act like it’s not there keeping the two separated by the vale?

L.R. Lam’s “Emberclaw” is the second book in the Dragon Scales series. It is 371 pages long and split into 68 chapters and an epilogue.

Similar to the first book, “Dragonfall,” “Emberclaw” has chapters divided by POVs. The five POVs follow the same characters as the first book: Arcady, Everen, Sorin, Cassia, and Magnes.

At the beginning of the book there is a recount of what happened in the first for those who have read “Dragonfall” and don’t wish to reread it before starting “Emberclaw.”

The book was released on March 4 for the first time with a Barnes & Noble special hardcover edition alongside the special hardcover edition of “Dragonfall.”

The special edition of “Emberclaw” includes an interesting section in the back that the other editions don’t have. This section shows how Lam created the language the dragons speak.

It’s an excellent sequel to the series. It mainly follows the human characters with fewer POVs of Everen, which makes sense from the ending of the first book.

Like the first book, it’s written as a prophecy that’s viewed from the outside on most of the POVs and feels like journal entries for Arcady and Everen’s POVs.

There’s a bit more romance in “Emberclaw.” It’s not as much of an enemies-to-lovers kind of romance, though there is quite a bit of tension between the characters.

I would highly recommend this book for people who enjoyed the first one, and for those who just enjoy dragons. If you haven’t read the first one, I would recommend picking up both. It’s much better to read them in succession in my opinion.