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rekishiPeter S. Beagle is an author I knew for exactly one work: The Last Unicorn.
This book is very much not that, but it is still delightful.
And the book goes exactly the way you would expect from that summary....and yet not at all.
It was delightful and I had a lot of fun with this and the characters. I definitely felt with Robert throughout this and the princess (because every good fairy tale with dragons needs a princess, right?) is actually a pretty great character.
Definitely recommended!
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This book is very much not that, but it is still delightful.
Dragons are common in the backwater kingdom of Bellemontagne, coming in sizes from mouse-like vermin all the way up to castle-smashing monsters. Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (who would much rather people call him Robert) has recently inherited his deceased dad's job as a dragon catcher/exterminator, a career he detests with all his heart in part because he likes dragons, feeling a kinship with them, but mainly because his dream has always been the impossible one of transcending his humble origin to someday become a prince's valet. Needless to say, fate has something rather different in mind...
And the book goes exactly the way you would expect from that summary....and yet not at all.
It was delightful and I had a lot of fun with this and the characters. I definitely felt with Robert throughout this and the princess (because every good fairy tale with dragons needs a princess, right?) is actually a pretty great character.
Definitely recommended!
(Copied from my journal)