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The Blood of a Dragon | Rating | |
| B | |||
| Lawrence Watt-Evans | |||
| Series | Related Books | ||
| Legends of Ethshar | The Misenchanted Sword, With a Single Spell, The Unwilling Warlord, The Blood of a Dragon, Taking Flight, The Spell of the Black Dagger, Night of Madness, Ithanalin's Restoration, The Spriggan Mirror | ||
The Legends of Ethshar series is... well, not unique, but unusual in my collection, in that each book has nothing to do with the previous few, except that they are all set in the same world. While it might mention events or even specific charactrs from other books, they are cameos only, and have little to do with the story.
Thus, while The Blood of a Dragon contains a few references to each of the first three books, don't read it expecting to find out what happened after those books ended. Which allows him to make a new tale unfettered by trying to do exactly that.
Dumery always wanted to be a wizard, but has no talent whatsoever for manipulating magic. After a bit of casting about for a new carreer, he hits on a big win: if those snobs won't let him join their ranks, he'll collect ingredients and make them come crawling to him! And what is the most difficult and most expensive and most wanted ingredient there is?
Here's a hint: it's the title of the book.
Watt-Evans' Ethshar books seem to have a common thread, that of the person who wants to break out of the role life seems to have made for him. As such, like his earlier novels in this setting, there is no real villain, no real adversary, no real challenge. Just Dumery trying to find his way in life. The book is still a good read, though, flowing well and naturally from the page to the reader, and I never wished more than idley for the pace to pick up. There's not much action, per se, but there is stuff happening, and that's enough.
It is, however, a very short book. I managed to finish it in a few hours, and I consider myself only moderately fast. Still, it was a fun few hours.
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