Dragon Jousters · Book 1
Joust
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780756401535
- Type
- novel
About this book
Joust (2003, 448 pages) opens the series with Vetch, an enslaved boy forced to serve as a dragon boy in a Bronze Age-inflected Egypt-like kingdom at war, secretly raising and bonding with a dragon of his own using gentler methods than the brutal training the state relies on.
Its place in Dragon Jousters
Joust is book 1 in the Dragon Jousters series. It is followed by Alta. 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 9780756401535