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The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon
A heartbreaking and heartwarming fantasy about rejection and belonging, power and consequence, and the cost of being ourselves.
Follow Saphienne through her elven childhood into adulthood, and witness the struggles that made her who she would become. See her rise and fall, lose what she cherishes and find what matters, and in the end?
Decide who she was for yourself.
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Written with accessible language for adult readers. New chapters on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Featuring an outsider in a woodland paradise, childhood adventure, found family, the best of the best, hard-earned progress, learning magic, growing friendships, a tremendous twist, righting past wrongs, and all the deep and conflicting feelings that make these things meaningful.
All chapters © L. J. Amber 2025, All Rights Reserved.
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Follow Saphienne through her elven childhood into adulthood, and witness the struggles that made her who she would become. See her rise and fall, lose what she cherishes and find what matters, and in the end?
Decide who she was for yourself.
* * *
Written with accessible language for adult readers. New chapters on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Featuring an outsider in a woodland paradise, childhood adventure, found family, the best of the best, hard-earned progress, learning magic, growing friendships, a tremendous twist, righting past wrongs, and all the deep and conflicting feelings that make these things meaningful.
All chapters © L. J. Amber 2025, All Rights Reserved.
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Ratings distribution of TEWWBAD as of 19th October 2025 at 03:31 BST.
Changes relative to 22nd September 2025 at 19:00 BST.
5-stars: 388 (+84 — +67 ratings, +9 reviews, +8 advanced reviews)
4.5-stars: 24 (+2 — +1 rating, +1 review)
4-stars: 19 (+1 rating)
3.5-stars: 9
3-stars: 3 (+1 rating)
2.5-stars: 1 (-1 rating)
2-stars: 2
1.5-stars: 2 (+2 ratings)
1-star: 0
0.5-star: 2
Overall Change: +0.02 Stars
- CHAPTER 2 - The World on Its Edge
- CHAPTER 3 - Only a Book's Throw Away
- CHAPTER 4 - Choosing a Side
- CHAPTER 5 - A Bloody Contest
- CHAPTER 6 – The Great Art
- CHAPTER 7 – Seeing and Believing
- CHAPTER 8 – A Frozen Summit
- CHAPTER 9 - Emerging Shapes
- CHAPTER 10 – Around the Issue
- CHAPTER 11 – Misapprehensions
- CHAPTER 12 – Taking Care of Her
- CHAPTER 13 – Small Things That Matter
- CHAPTER 14 – An Immovable Rock
- CHAPTER 15 – Intangible Lessons
- CHAPTER 16 – Of Magic Made Tangible
- CHAPTER 17 – Look, and Look Again
- CHAPTER 18 – Moving Ahead, Falling Behind
- CHAPTER 19 – Just Friends
- CHAPTER 20 – For Reason and Passion
- CHAPTER 21 – All the Ease of Summertime
- CHAPTER 22 – Innocence
- CHAPTER 23 – What Distinguishes
- CHAPTER 24 – What Connects
- CHAPTER 25 – Prisms
- CHAPTER 26 – Mirrors
- CHAPTER 27 – The Presence in Absence
- CHAPTER 28 – Show and Tell
- CHAPTER 29 – The Outline of Barriers
- CHAPTER 30 – Defining Boundaries
- CHAPTER 31 – Enchantment by Acquaintance
- CHAPTER 32 – Lost in Translation
- CHAPTER 33 – Sharp Recollections
- CHAPTER 34 – Where Spirits Fear to Tread
- CHAPTER 35 – Those Whom the Gods …
- CHAPTER 36 – The First Brush of Spring
- CHAPTER 37 – A Field With the Sun in Her Eyes
- CHAPTER 38 – Darkling Rambling
- CHAPTER 39 – Portents Unveiled in Black
- CHAPTER 40 – Her Necessary Intervention
- CHAPTER 41 – Entwined by Choice
- CHAPTER 42 – Entwined by Blood
- CHAPTER 43 – Managed Perceptions
- CHAPTER 44 – Suspended in Prelude
- CHAPTER 45 – The Bones of Her World
- CHAPTER 46 – All Ecstasies
- CHAPTER 47 – To Take Arms
- CHAPTER 48 – Here Be Dragons
- CHAPTER 49 – Icons of Devotion
- CHAPTER 50 – To Live in Denial
- CHAPTER 51 – What Is and Isn’t
- CHAPTER 52 – All Related in Time
- CHAPTER 53 – Illusory Progression
- CHAPTER 54 – The Substance of Change
- CHAPTER 55 – What Elves Won’t Speak About
- CHAPTER 56 – Struck From History
- CHAPTER 57 – She Who Made the Desert Bloom
- CHAPTER 58 – Her Reflection
- CHAPTER 59 – Innocence and Experience
- CHAPTER 60 – Auguries of Innocence
- CHAPTER 61 – What Immortal Hand or Eye
- CHAPTER 62 – Covered in Full
- CHAPTER 63 – Golden Days
- CHAPTER 64 – High Demands
- CHAPTER 65 – High Expectations
- CHAPTER 66 – Low Esteem
- CHAPTER 67 – The Valleys of Youth
- CHAPTER 68 – Maturity
- CHAPTER 69 – Barely Concealed
- CHAPTER 70 – Into the Light
- CHAPTER 71 – Spare the Rod
- CHAPTER 72 – Making Space for the Sunshine
- CHAPTER 73 – Revelations
- CHAPTER 74 – The Crown of Summer
- CHAPTER 75 – Peaces
- CHAPTER 76 – Oaths of Bone and Wind
- CHAPTER 77 – Unrequited
- CHAPTER 78 – Flock Call
- CHAPTER 79 – Ask Not For Whom …
- CHAPTER 80 – Summer Snow, and Winter Sun
- CHAPTER 81 – Her Necessary Transgression
- CHAPTER 82 – Unaccountably Sick, and Tired
- CHAPTER 83 – Other Songs to be Sung
- CHAPTER 84 – In Justice
- CHAPTER 85 – Absent Resolutions
- CHAPTER 86 – In Visibility
- CHAPTER 87 – Mobbed
- CHAPTER 88 – Deconstructing the Unseen
- CHAPTER 89 – Assumptions of Responsibility
- CHAPTER 90 – Maiden and Crone
- CHAPTER 91 – Ways Ancient and Magical
- CHAPTER 92 – To Bind, or Loose
- CHAPTER 93 – The Unknown, and the Unfamiliar
- CHAPTER 94 – And Greater Still
- CHAPTER 95 – Readers Don’t Steal
- CHAPTER 96 – The Learn’d Magicìan
- CHAPTER 97 – In Perfect Silence, Accompanied
- CHAPTER 98 – A Game of Chess
- CHAPTER 99 – Thieves Don’t Read
- CHAPTER 100 – An Irresistible Force
- CHAPTER 101 – Apprentice and Master
- CHAPTER 102 – The Source of Her
- CHAPTER 103 – Illumination
- CHAPTER 104 – Weird Sisters
- CHAPTER 105 – Prodigal
- CHAPTER 106 – Prodigy
- CHAPTER 107 – Saphienne or Saphienne
- CHAPTER 108 – Clipped
- CHAPTER 109 – Binding with Briars
- CHAPTER 110 – Looked, and Behold
- CHAPTER 111 – She Who Fights Too Long Against …
- CHAPTER 112 – To Insist Upon Herself
- CHAPTER 113 – Her Wings Unfurled
- CHAPTER 114 – Her Inflection
- CHAPTER 115 – Shifting Sands
- CHAPTER 116 – Forest Families
- CHAPTER 117 – Moved From Afar
- CHAPTER 118 – Step by Step
- CHAPTER 119 – Not Arcanum, but Arcana
- CHAPTER 120 – Heroic
- CHAPTER 121 – Recursion
- CHAPTER 122 – A Sanguine Inheritance
- CHAPTER 123 – Faithful Observance
- CHAPTER 124 – Wilful Acceptance
- CHAPTER 125 – Rule of the Gifted
- CHAPTER 126 – Tidings
- CHAPTER 127 – Love as Blinding
- CHAPTER 128 – Such Pitiful Prayers
- CHAPTER 129 – Monsters in the Woods
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