The Knight and the Dragon

It’s better than the original version of the story but the ending is kind of ruined by giving it away on the very first page. I thought that the queen was going to die in childbirth but that cliche is done. The protagonist has very realistic fears which I really appreciate and can personally understand, of being a failure and letting his family down. The hero of the story even goes on an epic journey to get stronger and has a grand homecoming, but there isn’t too much description of that, we’re just told that it happens. Now I realize this is the only story that has sex in it, although it’s only mentioned in passing I think it’s a detail that makes the character feel more real. And just like in real life after a party you can wake up to a disaster, though that doesn’t usually end up with your dad being killed. I find it interesting that the story seems to be telling us that you should always execute your enemies if you can and that the story actually shows the bad guy laughing like a maniac though I don’t really understand his evil plan. It says he’s going to enact “genocide on the kingdom and the world?” I don’t think that the author knows what genocide means and they misspelled it. A battle between dragon riders and an evil sorcerer sounds amazing and I actually got a little excited reading about the good guys going off into battle. Even the environment is like a video game at the evil lair, with the dragons fighting medieval war technology and dark magic, including ghouls and zombie archers which is pretty awesome. I love how the evildoer put up such a good fight but he got defeated with a royal punch from the new king.