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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.

ZZT Dwarf
12-12-2006, 03:21 AM
Nice review.

I think Ill have to take a look at this series, it sounds like something I would enjoy. Something like "Magician" by Raymond E. Feist or the "Belgariad/Malloreon" series by David Eddings if I understand you right.

Both these are highly recommendable in case you havent read them, but I suspect most who like the genre know them or have heard of them allready.

Tristate0999
12-12-2006, 05:51 AM
Thanks ZZT, I try :)

Little over halfway though the second book and it's really getting interesting. We've met two additional main characters...atleast I think so, Anna is a survivor of an Eika raid on a major town. So far she really hasn't played much of a role in anything but I'm sure she'll have a purpose sometime. The other is Sanglant, who is the bastard son of the king. We met him late in the first book, but now we get to meet him more in this second book. He's currently the captive of the Eika enchanter Bloodheart at the town of Gent, which happened to be where Anna escaped from.

Liath is also learning that she more abilities than she previously had known. I also forgot to mention in my review of the first book, but she was being held as a slave to repay her debt to the city by a churchman named Hugh. Hugh knows of Liath and of her potential powers, and he also knows of her "Book of Secrets". However, for a churchman Hugh is extremely abusive to Liath, and he also desires to learn all the secrets she knows.

ZZT Dwarf
12-13-2006, 02:16 AM
Hehe this is definately a pageturner. Im allready halfway through the first book! Had to remind myself to eat dinner yestoday - though a little later than usual.

So far I enjoy this book alot, its got alot of cliffhangers but (so far) allow the characters to develop at their own pace. I must say that I was a little surpriced with the turn of events in the Liath/Hugh line of events, much more mental and physical violence than I had expected.

Tristate0999
12-21-2006, 07:25 PM
Well I finished up the 2nd book tonight and I must say that I wasn't disappointed at all. The book keeps up a frantic pace near that end and I could hardly read fast enough. Now onto book number 3, which should hopefully keep with the trend of goodness that is this series.

Edit:

Well I finished up the 3rd book finally, had lots to do with work. The story is getting very involved with a lot of characters. Sometimes Ms. Elliot doesn't visit them for awhile and I forgot what was going on, then again it was a matter of 2 months since I last picked this book up. The ending is getting me excited for the beginning of the 4th book, which I began reading last night after finishing off the third.

Pendraeg
05-29-2007, 04:58 PM
Several people have recomended this one to me in times past. So with your quite decent review added to that i guess i'll go have a look :)