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| Original Title: | One Good Knight (Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, #2) |
| ISBN: | 0373802609 (ISBN13: 9780373802609) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Five Hundred Kingdoms #2 |
| Characters: | Princess Andromeda, Queen Cassiopeia, Solon Adacritus, Loremaster Periapt |
| Setting: | Acadia, Five Hundred Kingdoms |
Mercedes Lackey
Paperback | Pages: 393 pages Rating: 3.85 | 10153 Users | 472 Reviews
List Appertaining To Books One Good Knight (Five Hundred Kingdoms #2)
| Title | : | One Good Knight (Five Hundred Kingdoms #2) |
| Author | : | Mercedes Lackey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 393 pages |
| Published | : | November 21st 2006 by Luna Books (first published March 1st 2006) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Romance. Fairy Tales. Fiction. Dragons |
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When a dragon storms the castle, what should a (virgin) princess do?Why, turn to her studies, of course! But nothing practical-minded Princess Andromeda of Acadia finds gives a definitive solution. The only Traditional answer, though, is soothing the marauding dragon by a virgin sacrifice. Things are going fairly smoothly with the lottery--except for the women chosen, of course--until Princess Andromeda herself is picked!
But facing down the dragon doesn't go quite as planned, and now, with the help of her Champion, Sir George, Andromeda searches for the dragon's lair. But even--especially--in the Five Hundred Kingdoms, bucking Tradition isn't easy. It takes the strongest of wills, knowledge, quick wits and a refusal to give up, no matter what happens along the way....
Rating Appertaining To Books One Good Knight (Five Hundred Kingdoms #2)
Ratings: 3.85 From 10153 Users | 472 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books One Good Knight (Five Hundred Kingdoms #2)
I love this series of books. Playful and well written, but also insightful and inspiring. I find myself stopping to ponder the words, while enjoying the narrative and the characters immensely.I keep reading Lackey's new books because of some misguided sense of author loyalty. I realized a while back that I'd fallen out of love with her writing. Her characters are too one-dimensional, her plotting is cliched and at times forced, the endings are rushed, and her main characters all appear to be variations on the same theme. However, I had enjoyed The Fairy Godmother because it was fresh and original. I was therefore looking forward to this one. It was a let down. All of Lackey's faults
I keep reading Lackey's new books because of some misguided sense of author loyalty. I realized a while back that I'd fallen out of love with her writing. Her characters are too one-dimensional, her plotting is cliched and at times forced, the endings are rushed, and her main characters all appear to be variations on the same theme. However, I had enjoyed The Fairy Godmother because it was fresh and original. I was therefore looking forward to this one. It was a let down. All of Lackey's faults
(view spoiler)[Bookwyrm. /sniggerThat was inspired. XD (hide spoiler)]This started out so Boring... so Boring, that I had to capitalise it. There was just so much world-building (in this Greece-like corner of the Five Hundred Kingdoms), and exploration of Andromeda's (or more affectionately known as Andie) life that that first half of the book at least, DRAGGED on. I appreciated that Mercedes Lackey had used Andromeda (and her mother, Cassiopeia) as the basis of the story, and felt that it was
Another fluff story. I really like the author is slowly building her characters. Love is part of this story but again like pepper in a dish. Something nice and tasty but nothing who takes over the entire dish.Again her heroine is some sensible and common character I can feel with. She isn't falling for the first good looking face and imagines him for the love of her life.If you are searching for some romance novel you better not read this book :P.
One Good Knight takes place in the Five Hundred Kingdoms world established by The Fairy Godmother. Lackey writes an engaging retelling of the Andromeda sacrifice. Andie, our main character, is a pretty standard Lackey heroine: Spunky, smart, overlooked in intelligence & beauty and yet loved by her commoner friends. Oh yah, and has a mother who secretly hates her and has a dark secret.At the same time, I don't mind the cliches as much as I would otherwise as Lackey has established that
The first half of this book was pretty good, but boy did it go downhill very abruptly. Suddenly, the story is riddled with plot holes, instalove, and the same things getting really over explained.The thing that bothered me the most was this: the main character meets a guy who is all dont fall in love with me! But she blatantly admits (in internal dialogue) that shes falling in love with him. He turns out to be a girl in disguise, and the fact that the main character was attracted to her when she
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