Kindle Edition Amazon Light & Dark: The Black Bonded (Volume 2) Category:  Fantasy Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN-10:  0985324724 Type: Fiction Pages: 430 Copyright: July 10, 2015 ISBN-13: 9780985324728 Price: $2.99 (eBook) Danny Firoth returns home from a magical, yet deceitful, summer at the White Rock Academy of Illumination, only to be faced with a new terror, high school. However, the woes of the school’s halls are quickly forgotten when Danny is summoned to the high Council of the Elvin Elders in Elsmelda, the capital city of the Elves. Danny Firoth returns home from a magical, yet deceitful, summer at the White Rock Academy of Illumination, only to be faced with a new terror, high school. However, the woes of the school’s halls are quickly forgotten when Danny is summoned to the high Council of the Elvin Elders in Elsmelda, the capital city of the Elves. Danny learns that being the prophesized savior of the Light, the Mageknight, comes with a fancy new title, and massive new responsibilities. Distraught with trying to meet the requirements of his new station, the loss of his father's Bonded, and the perplexing relationship with his infatuation, Sabrina Drake, Danny is tested even more as a second-year squire. Danny and his friends are placed center stage as they are presented with Bondeds of their own and inducted into an army, competing in mock warfare for the grandest trophy of all, the Chalice of Light. Danny is also confronted with some serious issues, a question of trust among the Order of Light, as well as a need to unravel the deeper mystery of the Mageknight and the foreboding plan of his betrayer, Syndil Sartak Tribolari, in his search for a weapon that could bring about the end of the Light and all living things, The Black Bonded.

This book has improved immensely
This book has improved immensely since the rough and awkward start of the first book. That first awkward chapter of the first book is worth slogging through to get to here. The writer improves with each chapter of this series he writes. The last part of this book (no spoilers) has a powerful haunting scene. The story doesn't flinch away from it at all which I very much appreciate. Some things I had been skeptical about pays off because the characters start to question it as well. Some of the secondary characters get a lot more depth here as well. One of the kids sole character trait still seems to be "Elf Aficionado" though... I will be the next book the day it comes out.