Dragon Outcast

Quest the First...

Read at least 5 books that fit somewhere within the Once Upon a Time II criteria. They might all be fantasy, or folklore, or fairy tales, or mythology…or your five books might be a combination from the four genres.

Book : 5 Dragon Outcast by E E Knight

Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Roc Trade (December 4, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0451461851

Amazon Product Description
Dragon Outcast continues E.E. Knight's thrilling fantasy series about a brood of young dragon siblings-each unique, each powerful, and each fated to battle the other to the end. Here, the darkest of the dragons is introduced as he strives to make himself the strongest-and the last-of his brethren...

This third and final book of the trilogy speaks of the crippled, no named, hatchling that escaped the family destruction, that HE himself had set in motion.

It was a story of survival, and of working with, a not so perfect body. It encompassed danger, a real struggle to survive and making more of himself than he ever believed could be.

There are parts in all three of these books that make me think, that although there are many life lessons hidden in these books, there are some parts that I don't think would set well with young adults... mainly some description of killings and death by the dragons. As for myself, it even made me a bit uncomfortable, but each story was told so well that they kept me reading, even knowing there would be more of the same before their story was told. I think that it was put in for some realism and in that way it worked well.

After the first book I didn't think the author could write another book following a second hatchling and keep it interesting ... but he not only wrote a good story for the second book, but for the third book as well.

It surpised me that I was kept coming back to read these 3 hatchlings stories..

Well done E.E. Knight... well done!

This concludes the 5th round of Quest the First!!... I can't begin to tell you how much I've enjoyed Carl's Once Upon A Time Challenge!!