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Efran Myles did not care for reading in elementary school. He was more interested in math and science. But in his fourth grade reading class, he was required to read a short section of C. S. Lewis' The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe and the story so intrigued him that he mentioned it to his mother that night. She directed him to find the book in his father's basement library, thousands of science-fiction/fantasy books. It was so that Myles' love affair with books began.
Reviewed by Rosie Malezer for Readers' Favorite
The Last Day by Efran Myles is a novella which is book one of the ‘Of Avalon’ series. Melador is a druid who is known as the eyes and ears of the island of Saint Mary. As the ocean waters rise, submerging the land on which they live, the people of the island of Avalon need to leave and find new places in which to live. Over the generations, the inhabitants of Avalon had migrated to other countries. On this day, a ship is preparing for its final launch from Avalon, with Normandy as its destination. Only a few priests are to remain behind as caretakers of King Arthur’s resting place, the temple of Avalon, built atop a mountain which is filled with Musgravite. As long as the dragon-lords-in-training avoided this sacred rock, they could communicate with each other through magic. Legend holds that dwarves had been hired by Lord Randall to mine the Musgravite from the mountain so it could be made into bricks and then spelled, causing those near the bricks to forget. Those bricks had then been deposited throughout many nearby lands by visiting dragons.
While this is not a genre which I frequent, I found The Last Day to be a book which I fast became lost in as I was able to easily visualize and empathize with each of the characters - especially the young Melador who, as it turned out, had simply gone to retrieve a fishing rod which meant a lot to him as it had been a gift from his brother. Fans of adventure books such as Eragon will find this series to be a complete delight, and I look forward to reading more books by Efran Miles in the future.
