hey about those books with dragons in them
I have a book series to recommend
Do you like intense political intrigue and infighting, scheming, and plotting of Kings and Queens in a gambit to claim the grand throne of all the realms?
Are you a fan of fantasy realism, of a world that takes itself seriously and portrays human nature in all it’s highest highs and truly lowest lows?
What about dragons? Fan of them?
Or a special, sacrosanct order of keepers of knowledge and wisdom, who are sworn above all else to preserve the continuity of the realms?
What about betrayal and lust and love and breaking of oaths and a great civil war that rips the kingdoms in two, all while a far greater, far deadlier threat is stirring, unbeknownst to them all?
How does an exiled queen of dragons sound, banished to a far-off land with no allies, no support, but a bitter and serious determination to return to her own lands and reclaim her rightful throne?
What about a world of massive, incomprehensible magic lurking below the surface, slowly revealing itself as the story goes on?
I’m talking, obviously, about Stephen Deas’ Memory of Flames and Silver Kings series. What else could I possibly be referring to?
I’ve often referred to it as ‘A Song of Ice and Fire if it was completed, and also was good.’ It’s jam packed with dragons, war, intrigue, murder, and a bunch of very believable, very rough characters that you can’t help but grow to love. Jehal is a piece of shit, but he’s our piece of shit.
And seriously. The dragons. I couldn’t crow about them enough. Two hundred foot long monsters that reincarnate, can rip apart castles in minutes, breathe fire hot enough to melt stone and iron, can fly to the edge of space itself and are utterly terrifying, implacable, amoral and monstrous. True forces of nature made flesh, willful and furious and passionate. Dragons in the tradition of the uruloki of Morgoth.
It’s worth it for the dragons alone.
Diamond Eye would whip shit on any of Dany’s chode-ass wyverns.
