Since I'm totally new to this series, there were plenty of new names and places. A list of all characters and more maps would have been helpful, but alas, I had to try to keep track of everything and everyone in my head instead. The main character, dragon naturalist, Lady Isabella Trent, is an interesting woman. In her last memoir, Lady Trent is retelling how she and her team of explorers traveled to Scirland and what they discover there, within the Sanctuary of Wings... A discovery that will change the world.

THE SANCTUARY OF WINGS is a fictional memoir and did feel like that. But, unfortunately a very dry memoir. I liked the idea of the series, with five memoirs written by an adventurer's dragon naturalist, but it was like reading a textbook! A dry retelling of an adventure without any passion to the story. It didn't start off well for me either, with Lady Trent's husband holding a lecture about draconic linguistic that almost put me to sleep. And, that was I had to fight against throughout the whole book... falling asleep. Between the writing and the story, it was all so dry that I lived for the moments when something happened in the story that was interesting. Unfortunately, those moments were rare. Not even the discovery in Scirland really intrigued me. I wished that I could have liked this book better, but I was just not the right reader.

I can see that this is a book that will appeal to those that have read the previous books in this series and loved the tone in the book and found the writing style appealing. I personally loved the look and feel of the book. The old feel of the pages and the font together with the images inside the book are what I loved the most. I just wished that I had loved the story as well.