Dragon Earl and Troll

Yet another great one by Dickson. Read this and enjoy!

Once again Jim Eckert, AKA the Dragon Knight has to face the dark powers. One should think this might become boring by now but Dickson made up a great scenery with lots of fascinating characters. Not only has James to deal with an army of trolls who intend to change history itself, but also with a great number of problems on the Earls christmas-party. Needless to say that the way he solves medevial trouble with 20th century skills is both surprising and unusual. To let a troll, disguised as a black knight, join the tounament to smell out a disguised troll among the guests was surely extraordinary. I also enjoyed to find characters like Angie, his charming but strong-willed wife, play more important roles than in earlier books. Everyone who liked The Dragon At War will surely love this book, because it gives more insight on already well known characters and adds a lot of new ones who aren't less interesting.

Jim's fight with the dark powers has never been like this before. A new way of battle is set for Jim in this exciting book. Magic, fighting, and surprises all take place at the eals christmas party to make one great book. This is exactly the excellent follow-up book you want to read after the Dragon at War. This time Jim is tangled up with conflict of timing as he struggles to get so many this accomplished at once and to discover what is really going on. Another must read book in the series.

The only way to describe this book is by the trouble that pops up almost every paragraph. To put it short, Baron Sir James Eckert de Malencontri de Riveroak, otherwise known as Jim, or the Dragon Knight, was under a seemingly inescapable siege, and expecting death. This ended quickly as soon as his sea-devil friend showed up and inadvertantly scared the attackers off. But the real trouble started when Carolinus, one of the world's three most powerful magicians, showed up and confronted him, "asking" that he attended the local Earl's Twelve Days of Christmas party. This would mean much drinking, fighting, and official confrontation at the games, which was disagreeable to Jim, who came from the 20th century. Then at the Earl's castle, its resident troll began to execute damaging shakes to the architecture. Jim found that the troll wanted to scare off a troll in guise of a human guest. This, topped off with a nearby army of trolls (which was unusual for a socially inadept species) wanting to challange Mnrogar (the troll), Jim trying to get the troll and the Earl to cooperate, and the Bishop to approve cooperation, the Dark Powers seeming to be at work, and two hundred large dragons who mistaked Christmas for a chronicle rebirth of Jesus Christ, while thinking that the royal Prince was the baby Jesus and wanting to come to the Earl's castle, among dozens of knights all too willing to carve fresh reputations out of dragon flesh, the dragons desiring a blessing and thinking that the trolls were in the way, and a secondary inheriter of a dead knights lands wanting to kill his baby son, among an innumerable amount of intricate details, makes for a great frusteration, confusion, and fun fest. Perfect.

I greatly enjoyed this book. There were so many different things going on, I was never bored. Along with the many different plots going on,I liked the way Dickson added atmosphere and humour to this book. It gave a very authentic medeival feel to the work. A very satisfying read.