Dragon Jousters · Book 2
Alta
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780756402570
- Type
- novel
About this book
Alta (2004, 448 pages), matching its predecessor's length exactly, follows Vetch and his dragon as war, plague, and political collapse push him from fugitive toward a reluctant role in reshaping how his society treats both dragons and the enslaved people who tend them.
Its place in Dragon Jousters
Alta is book 2 in the Dragon Jousters series. It follows Joust. It is followed by 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 9780756402570