Book Club: May Selection and June Poll

Hello, friends! Last month we asked you to vote for a book featuring a maternal relationship for May’s book club, and I’m here to let you know how that vote went!

Dragonsbane (2011)
Author: Barbara Hambly
Discussion date: 5/25/18

Premise:

An idealistic young prince convinces an aging warrior and a struggling witch to help him kill the dragon that is terrorizing his kingdom

 

As a vicious dragon stalks the Southlands, Crown Prince Gareth ventures to the forbidding North in search of the only man who can kill it. He is Lord Aversin, the Dragonsbane, whose dragon-slaying days have won him renown across the land. But when Gareth finds Lord Aversin, he discovers the mighty hero is squat and bespectacled, the ruler of a mud-village who admits that he killed the dragon not with a lance, but with ignoble poison. Still, he’ll have to do.

Gareth and Aversin set off in company with Jenny Waynest, a witch with great ambitions but disappointingly puny powers—a ragtag crew destined to become legendary, or die in the attempt.

After Mother’s Day in May comes Father’s Day in June, so June’s book club suggestions have a familiar theme. I polled my twitter followers for suggestions of books featuring paternal figures, biological fathers, mentors, or otherwise. These are what we came up with:

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Join us later in April for our discussion of Redshirts!