Mass Market Paperback, 427 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2003 by Time Warner Paperbacks.
The king is dead, murdered by a strange and horrible poison. The land of Delain is in mourning . apart from the unscrupulous, greedy, plotting magician Flagg. Soon the king's oldest son Peter is imprisoned at the top of a high tower, the Needle, for his father's murder, while his younger brother Thomas inherits the throne.
Only Peter knows the truth of his own innocence, and the truth of the evil that is Flagg. And only Peter can save Delain from the horror Flagg has in store. He has a plan, but it is dangerous and desperate and if he fails there will be no second chance. For all the while, Flagg's words echo in his mind: 'I'll carry your head on my saddle-bag horn for a thousand years. Here I come, Peter! Coming for your head! --back cover
The story is fine but I didn't like the foreshadowing that happened so many times. The beginning is already quite slow and spoiling the outcome made it feel even slower. To be fair the end of the book felt way more interesting and more like a climax because of the slow pace before that. But 50 nice pages at the end don't make the 350 before that less of a drag.
Exciting young adult fantasy novel with good immersion.
"The Eyes of the Dragon" was suggested to me by a very dear friend. It was an excellent suggestion. Dive into this book and meet a story teller who delivers to you the story of a king who slays a dragon and what happens to his two sons after he died.
"The Eyes of the Dragon" is a book by Stephen King who also wrote the Dark Tower series. This is definitely a different class of writing, one that appeals to me. A fantasy story / fairy tale he wrote that's rich in views and characters. Definitely something to read if you like fairy tales.
A sort of fairy tale, and only Stephen King can write one.
I really liked this book. It was really obvious that he wrote the book for his daughter, but it still had all the elements of Stephen King that I've grown to like. :)
