All the Skills

About This Audiobook

Arthur is a poor kid in a border town when a dying caravan dragon hands him a Legendary card — Master of Skills, which lets him learn and copy any skill in the world — along with a warning: never let the baron find out. In a setting where your entire future is literally the cards you're dealt (magic here is a deck-building system), that's a lottery ticket with a death sentence printed on the back. The mid-book turn adds the series' best character: Brixaby, a parrot-sized Legendary dragon with the ego of a battleship, who bonds with Arthur inside a dragon-rider hive. The card mechanics are simple and satisfying, and the tone stays cozy-adjacent. The whole thing goes down easy. The critique: the system props up stretches where the story itself is unspectacular, and the worldbuilding sections amble. Luke Daniels is a national treasure here — his Brixaby is pitch-perfect tiny-dragon arrogance. 4.8 from 3.6K ratings.

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