Dragonsbane
A Science Fiction Fantasy, Dragons, Fantasy book. But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest Ive ever learned...
An idealistic young prince convinces an aging warrior and a struggling witch to help him kill the dragon that is terrorizing his kingdom...As a vicious dragon stalks the Southlands, Crown Prince Gareth ventures to the forbidding North in search of the only man who can kill it. He is Lord Aversin, the Dragonsbane, whose dragon-slaying days have won him renown across the land. But when Gareth finds Lord Aversin, he discovers the mighty hero is squat and bespectacled, the ruler of a mud-village who admits that he killed the dragon not with a lance, but with ignoble poison. Still, he’ll have to do.Gareth and Aversin set off in company with Jenny Waynest, a witch with great ambitions but disappointingly...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 342 pages
- ISBN: 9781453216866 / 1453216863
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There is no temptation from outside the heart. Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane // Dragonsbane, they called him.Slayer of dragons.Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that. Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane // But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest Ive ever learned about anythingthat she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, itand its choice to be thereare gone. Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane //
Hambly writes adults, a rarity in the fantasy genre; in particular, Dragonsbane is a depiction of middle-aged regret, of people who because of historical circumstances and personal situations will never achieve what they dream of, and somehow Hambly writes it in a way that's not depressing and that appealed to me even as an adolescent... Surprisingly awesome! 3.5 stars for this fantasy, which I listened to (good narration). The "Dragonsbane" is the hero of song and story, about whom bards sing ballads. He's the great warrior who slew a dragon ten years ago. Gareth, a young nobleman from the king's court, is fond of dragon ballads. Idealistic -- and desperate Gareth comes north to seek aid...
