by: Barbara Warren

Dancing Word Reviewer

Title: DragonKnight

Author: Donita K. Paul

Publisher: Waterbrook Press

ISBN 1-4000-7250-6 

Genre: Inspirational/Fantasy

Squire Bardon has plans for a nice quiet sabbatical away from . . .people. Wearied of court life and all of the . . .people and their noisy chatter, he is looking forward to reading the books he has brought, contemplating life, and seeking the presence of Wulder, creator of all. Instead, his cabin is invaded by three females, who inform him they are on a quest and he is their leader. Bardon is sure Wulder never created three more exasperating females.

There’s Granny Kye, calm, unflappable, who can’t bear to see anyone in need, even if she has to give away Bardon’s last coin. N’Rae, a beautiful young emerlindian girl, communes with animals, and last but not least, there’s Jue Senno, who resembles a mouse with an attitude, and lives in a basket carried by N’Rae.

Granny Kye is searching for her son, who was imprisoned in an enchanted castle with other knights and placed under an evil spell. Bardon and the three women are in a race against time. If the sleeping knights are not freed from the spell before the Wizard’s Plume, a new comet in the sky, passes over the Eye of the North, they will die.

In DragonKnight Donita K. Paul plunges the reader into a mythical kingdom where dragons fly, knights are honorable, and the dangers are real. Dragon Knight is a warm, witty, intense story of good and evil that will keep you turning pages until the end. It also left me with an intense desire for a flying dragon with a purple body, cobalt wings, and a great sense of humor.