Novice Dragoneer

Zusatztext Praise for Novice Dragoneer “ Novice Dragoneer is deep and thoughtful! with intricate worldbuilding and resonant characters both human and draconic.  Anyone who fell in love with Tamora Pierce’s Alanna will find a home here too.”—Django Wexler! author of The Infernal Battalion "Engaging! inventive! and compulsively readable! Novice Dragoneer serves up adventure after adventure of our determined! clever heroine! along with plenty of surprises. Highly recommended."—Howard Jones! author of For the Killing of Kings "One of the most consistently interesting writers."--Charlaine Harris "An excellent fantasy coming of age story...Ileth’s journey leads her to places of wonder! but also sorrow and loss! and how she copes with the challenges is where the story telling of E. E. Knight shines."— Booklist Praise for the Age of Fire Novels "E. E. Knight makes his world of dragons soar as the audience roots for them to succeed."-- Midwest Book Review "A refreshingly new protagonist...A fine addition to most fantasy collections."-- Library Journal (starred review) Informationen zum Autor E. E. Knight was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Minnesota, and now calls Chicago home, where he abides in domestic felicity with his family and assorted pets. He is the author of the Age of Fire series and the Vampire Earth series. Klappentext In the first book in an exciting new coming-of-age fantasy series from the author of the Age of Fire series, an impoverished girl enters into a military order of dragonriders, but her path won't be as easy or as straightforward as she expected. Fourteen-year-old Ileth grew up in an orphanage, and thanks to her stutter was never thought to be destined for much beyond kitchen work and cleaning. But she's dreamed of serving with the dragons ever since a childhood meeting with a glittering silver dragon and its female dragoneer. For years she waits, and as soon as she is old enough to join, Ileth runs away to become a novice dragoneer at the ancient human-dragon fortress of the Serpentine. While most of her fellow apprentices are from rich and influential families, Ileth must fight for her place in the world, even if it includes a duel with her boss at the fish-gutting table. She's then sent off to the dragon-dancers after a foolish kiss with a famously named boy and given charge of a sickly old dragon with a mysterious past. But she finds those trials were nothing when she has to take the place of a dead dragoneer and care for his imprisoned dragon in enemy lands. . . . 1   Night, wind, and fog above, puddled road and wet meadow beneath. Trotting between them and well coated with elements of both, a youth, still more girl than woman, puffed as she ran. A man's riding cloak, heavy with rain, dragged at her. Adding to the mess was blood from a still-seeping cut on her chin.   A fierceness on her gashed, freckled face under a sloppy sailor's hat suggested she ran as the pursuer, rather than the pursued.   Ileth no longer felt the blood running from the cut, or the pain in the assortment of scrapes and bumps that had accumulated on the run since she realized that those louts at the brewery had sent her up the wrong road, apparently as a joke. If a little blood on her face and clothes was the only price she'd pay to reach her destination in time, she'd gladly let the wound drip.   The fortress she ran toward, a great pile of stone and slate roofs sprawled across a rugged peninsula like a sleepy cat on a branch, comforted her with its lights. The lights gave her hope ever since she first distinguished the impossibly bright beacon of the high lighthouse shining through the drizzle. She could have become lost in this dark, after all, an easy thing in the fogs of the Wi...

Product details

• Authors: E E Knight, E. E. Knight, E.E. Knight
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781984804068
• ISBN: 978-1-984804-06-8
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 208 mm x 28 mm
• Series: A Dragoneer Academy Novel
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy