
He has so much heart and he is a good kid but he doesn’t always seem to see himself that way. I felt for Zachary throughout the whole book. Unfortunately that is just what happens when it turns out he is an ancestor to the once known dragon king of China. Keep your head down and just don’t stand out.

They are just a way to get through school. He knows that his friends aren’t really his friends because they don’t see him as equal. Zachary right off the batt strikes me as a pretty smart kid. It wasn’t so much the plot that kept me interested, but the characters.

Which is what instantly drew me to this book. You all know I love me some middle grade and especially those that are more diverse.

Now, with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers.Īnd if Zack can’t finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever. The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to Zack’s AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by demons. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage.
