Unlike that, this book is a standalone.Įllen DeGeneres has purchased the rights to produce a feature-film adaptation. The book is written by Naomi Novik, who is more famous for the long-running Temeraire series. However, considering that Agnieszka is the Character Narrator. This year, everyone is sure Agnieszka's best friend Kasia is going to be picked. They're sent back with money for their dowries, but none ever stay in the villages after. Her village, and others at the edge of the Wood, are protected by The Dragon, a wizard who - every ten years - picks a girl to serve him for the next ten years.
He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful."Īgnieszka lives at the edge of the Wood, which as the quote above suggests is not the safest place.
Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon.
We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. "Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley.
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