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    The Blood of a Dragon: A Legend of Ethshar
    The Blood of a Dragon: A Legend of Ethshar
    The Blood of a Dragon: A Legend of Ethshar
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    The Blood of a Dragon: A Legend of Ethshar

    By Lawrence Watt-Evans

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    Dumery of Shiphaven was a lad with a love of wizardry--and no magic at all. He dreamed of apprenticing himself to a great wizard, but because he had not even a touch of the talent, it was a dream he could never fulfill. He would never apprentice himself to a great wizard, nor even a meager one; no matter how he loved magic and the magical arts, he would never work with wizards or wizardry. That's what Dumery was beginning to think, anyway--until he spied a great wizard humbling himself before a man selling dragon's blood, the precious stuff that made difficult spells work. If Dumery couldn't be a wizard, he could still become a dragon-hunter--and have all those condescending wizards crawling to him. And so Dumery set off on a quest--a quest in search of dragons and dragon-hunters, and ultimately the secret that lay beneath all the wizardry in Ethshar. Before he reached its end, he would uncover the terrible mystery of the dragon-hunters--and scheme a scheme that would change the face of Ethsharitic magic forever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateFeb 25, 2015
    ISBN9781479402595
    The Blood of a Dragon: A Legend of Ethshar
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    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    Born and raised in Massachusetts, Lawrence Watt-Evans has been a full-time writer and editor for more than twenty years. The author of more than thirty novels, over one hundred short stories, and more than one hundred and fifty published articles, Watt-Evans writes primarily in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic books. His short fiction has won the Hugo Award as well as twice winning the Asimov's Readers Award. His fiction has been published in England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Poland, France, Hungary, and Russia He served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1994 to 1996 and after leaving that office was the recipient of HWA's first service award ever. He is also a member of Novelists Inc., and the Science Fiction Writers of America. Married with two children, he and his wife Julie live in Maryland.

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    • 5/5
      Loved it! I strongly recommend this author. Can't wait to read the next one.
    • 3/5
      Not one of Watt-Evans' best, although the ending could provide a moderately satisfying wrap-up for established Ethshar fans. Starts very slowly and proceeds without a definite sense of where the story is going and why anyone should care, unless they find something inherently interesting in the selfish and moderately brainless career-related flailings of a desperate 12-year-old boy who would be rather mundane if he had been born in a mundane setting. As I've never been a 12-year-old boy, I can't say absolutely for sure, but the narrative seems like a reasonable approximation of being inside the head of an overprivileged, potentially clever boy who needs to age into his intelligence — so for those of us who have no desire to think like that for 200+ pages, and in the absence of the usual Watt-Evans hijinks, the narrative is a little dull. Once the boy's initial plan has been thoroughly and completely thwarted, and there are people onscreen aside from the boy and the random, unimportant people he briefly encounters, the writing gets better and the story gets more interesting. The better-written bit takes up maybe a fourth of the book, at the very end, which is itself probably made more interesting by a previous knowledge of the Ethshar universe. This book reads like a throwaway story that needs more polishing and editing, with a few mildly interesting glimpses of other Ethshar storylines thrown in — although the basic idea is definitely sound. Not a great standalone book, and not required reading for any but the most rabid Ethshar fans. Sorry, Watt-Evans ... but everyone has their better and worse books. I'll keep reading anyway. ;)

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