The beginning of Dragon Blood is quite brutal. For some reason I both dislike romance in books and yet really enjoy it at times. Neither book is a romance, something I quite enjoy. It continues the story of Ward, and in this case Tisala the rebel, and love of Ward. While Dragon Bones is a stand-alone story, Dragon Blood depends on the reader having some knowledge of the world. Dragon Bones is quite an enjoyable introduction to the world of Ward of Hurog. The people around him are clearly filtered through the life of Ward, making us care more for him and for the people around him.

This is part of what makes Ward such a real person, but it also shows us the world around him through his experiences. The story is told in first-person, through the eyes of Ward. One of the first things Ward must do in getting people to take him seriously is to prove himself a warrior, taking him and a small group accross the kingdom. But in learning about Hurog’s very secret secret and some truths about the people around him, Ward manages to feel less alone in his struggles. He clearly struggles with the long-term effects of his childhood. Ward comes across as a believable character. This brings the king’s attention to the Hurog family, driven by his paranoia of the world being against him.

Discovering a damsel in distress and the secret of Hurog both play a part in enabling Ward to figure out how to show himself as someone to be trusted. Undoing other people’s perception of himself turns out to be more difficult than Ward would like. Unfortunately for Ward, the damage done to him had enabled him to pretend to be quite dense. So when he dies at the beginning of the book, it would be fair to say that Ward did not feel like grieving. Until he had managed to damage Ward enough to affect his thinking, he saw Ward as his rival. Child-, spouse and animal-abuse were his main hobbies. What you need to know about Ward is that his dad was, to put it mildly, a monster. Its main character is Ward, heir to Hurog. Ward is a wonderful character, caught in his own trap, yet never quite giving up hope.ĭragon Bones is a stand-alone novel. And it fits with the dragon of the story. This is probably one of the better stories that Briggs has written. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an interpretation like that. Her books fall into the light entertainment category. The Hurog duology’s version of the Briggsian world-creation is placed in a world reeking of the middle-ages with all of its dragons, shape-changers, magicians and various other people. As you might have surmised from this blog she is quite a prolific writer. Patricia Briggs has written the Hurog duology.

Dragon bones by patricia briggs