Dragon Jousters · Book 4
Aerie
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 291
- ISBN-13
- 9780756403911
- Type
- novel
About this book
Aerie (2006, 291 pages) closes the series -- its shortest volume, over 150 pages leaner than the first two -- with the founding of a new order built on the more humane dragon-bonding methods Vetch pioneered.
Its place in Dragon Jousters
Aerie is book 4 in the Dragon Jousters series. It follows Sanctuary. See the full Dragon Jousters reading order.
In a Bronze Age-inflected Egypt-like kingdom locked in a generations-long war with its southern neighbor, dragons are weapons of war, raised from stolen eggs and drugged into loyalty by the low-born "jousters" who ride them into battle. Joust follows Vetch, an enslaved boy forced to serve as a dragon boy, who secretly raises and bonds with a dragon of his own using gentler methods than the brutal training the state relies on — a bond that makes his dragon genuinely his, rather than a controlled weapon. Alta and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780756403911