Dragonfruit

I just finished Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier, and it was amazing!

Every wish demands a price…

The story is compelling: The egg of a dragon (called a dragonfruit) can grant a wish, undue a wrong, or cure an ill, but it comes at a great price. The queen’s daughter, who is next in line for the throne, is in a coma from a poisoning for which there is no cure.

Our heroine, Hanalei of Tamarind, was also put in a coma from the poisoning, and her father stole the dragonfruit to cure her, instead of the queen. Now our heroine is all alone; her father is dead, and she’s in exile. Can she find her way home? What will she find when she gets there?

Samahti is the last remaining prince of Tamarind, and his mother has been in a coma for ten years. A man now, he should be sailing the Nominomi Sea and learning of the world outside his island, but instead he stays at his mother’s side as she slowly fades away. He is willing to do anything to cure her. He’s spent the last ten years collecting sea dragons in his menagerie in hopes that just one will lay the magical dragonfruit. What will he do when Hanalei comes home at last?

This book is a YA fantasy with temes of self-love, resistance, forgiveness, and coming home. Daring and thrilling, Dragonfruit grabs the reader and doesn’t let go until the last page!