For today’s edition of Fangirling on Friday, we’re discussing Dragons! Fangirling on Friday is hosted by Books in the Skye!
There haven’t been a lot of books with dragons lately that I’ve seen lately, but if I was to predict the future, I’d say that dragons will be making a comeback soon. Whenever people mention The Priory of the Orange Tree, one of the first things I hear people get excited about is the dragon on the cover. I think people want to read about dragons.
I hope that’s the case, because there is a dragon in my book. And I expect there to be lots of dragons in the second book. I’m still finishing up the first draft of the first book, so we’ll see what goes on with those dragons. A lot can change between the first draft and the finished product.
Anyway, I’ve been fangirling over books with dragons for a long time. For me, when I think about books with dragons in them, I think of Dragonlance. There’s about 100 books in this series (and spinoffs), and I’ve read the majority of them.
Dragonlance has a special place in my heart. When I had known my then-boyfriend for about two months, he gave me Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Guys, the way to a girl’s heart is books. Or at least it should be. I had to marry him a couple of years later, of course. We named our kids after Dragonlance characters. My daughter is lucky she was born in Italy, because otherwise we would have named her Lauralanthalasa. We were afraid they’d mess up the birth certificate though, so she got the nickname of Laurana instead.
Hopefully we’ll see more dragon books soon, but until then, there’s Dragonlance, Priory (coming out February 26th) and The Song of Ice and Fire (which I don’t recommend to younger readers).
Do you like books with dragons?
Next week: Favorite Nicknames of characters. I’m not sure what I’ll do with that one, but I’ll probably think of something.