Tristate0999
12-04-2006, 07:51 AM
My wife loves books, and so do I. On her previous business trip to Indy she stopped by a discount book store and picked out a couple books for herself and she picked up a book she thought I might like. It just happened to be book one in the series stated in the thread title. The book is called King's Dragon, and the story starts about 20 years before the main events of the story. I almost put the book down, because the beginning was somewhat slow, but it quickly picked up as the story was fast forwarded to the time when the story takes place.
The book focuses really on three main characters, and they each have their own role to continue to drive the story. The time is the renaissance period or there about, and in the kingdom of Wendar. There's some magic in the first book, and I would assume it continues to be greater.
The first real main character we meet Alain who is a teenager and is going to be sworn into the church, but through a series of events finds himself in the service of his counts levie going to war against the king. The story also starts to reveal much about him, and the possibility of him being the bastard son to his count.
The next character that will play a greater role in the later stories in an Eika prince. The Eika are an ancient race that may or may not have descended from dragons. They are a fierce warrior race that have been pillaging and taking slaves for as long as the race of man existed. I won't go into exactly why the prince is going to play a role, but it much to do with Alain and a change in the war.
The final character that we really get to know in the first book is Liath. Living on the run with her father, whom she calls Da, they finally settle down in a town to hopefully start a good life. Her father is somewhat of a magician, but she's not really how much he's knows about magic. She knows he can do slight of hand tricks, and has great knowledge about the earth and astronomy. He also carries a book called "The Book of Secrets"...at least that's what I think it's called. It's written by many hands and in just as many languages. It's possible that it's the key to unlock Liath's true magic potential, though she's always been told that she was "deaf" to magic by her parents.
It's a good read, and the series has 7 or 8 books in it, the first one is 636 pages and the second one is 627. So not huge books, and if you get into them they read quickly. I finished the first one in the airports going to and from my parent's house for Thanksgiving.
The book focuses really on three main characters, and they each have their own role to continue to drive the story. The time is the renaissance period or there about, and in the kingdom of Wendar. There's some magic in the first book, and I would assume it continues to be greater.
The first real main character we meet Alain who is a teenager and is going to be sworn into the church, but through a series of events finds himself in the service of his counts levie going to war against the king. The story also starts to reveal much about him, and the possibility of him being the bastard son to his count.
The next character that will play a greater role in the later stories in an Eika prince. The Eika are an ancient race that may or may not have descended from dragons. They are a fierce warrior race that have been pillaging and taking slaves for as long as the race of man existed. I won't go into exactly why the prince is going to play a role, but it much to do with Alain and a change in the war.
The final character that we really get to know in the first book is Liath. Living on the run with her father, whom she calls Da, they finally settle down in a town to hopefully start a good life. Her father is somewhat of a magician, but she's not really how much he's knows about magic. She knows he can do slight of hand tricks, and has great knowledge about the earth and astronomy. He also carries a book called "The Book of Secrets"...at least that's what I think it's called. It's written by many hands and in just as many languages. It's possible that it's the key to unlock Liath's true magic potential, though she's always been told that she was "deaf" to magic by her parents.
It's a good read, and the series has 7 or 8 books in it, the first one is 636 pages and the second one is 627. So not huge books, and if you get into them they read quickly. I finished the first one in the airports going to and from my parent's house for Thanksgiving.