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A Trilogy of Knights

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THE KNIGHT AND…

THE DRAGON

Bran is tired of living a life of blood and violence. After decades of serving his king on the battlefield, he wants the peaceful, violence-free life he has earned. When the king refuses to grant him freedom, Bran volunteers to go slay a deadly dragon—with every intention of dying alongside it.

THE STATUE

Grey has always kept to himself, so solitary and strange he is named after the mist-filled valley where he was found as a child. But he longs for things he cannot have – like Dunstan, a beautiful, young mage far out of reach. Then he learns Dunstan's family is being tormented by mercenaries, and Dunstan himself turned to stone—and Grey and his strange past are their only hope for rescue.

THE PRINCE

All Victor wants is to be taken seriously by his so-called peers, who constantly bully him for his fussy ways and his close relationship to the throne. Then he rescues a foreign prince being chased by assassins, and finds himself swept into a strange world that feels more like home than anywhere he's ever been…

195 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 10, 2019

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Megan Derr

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Megan is a long time resident of queer romance and keeps herself busy reading and writing it. She is often accused of fluff and nonsense. When she’s not involved in writing, she likes to cook, harass her wife and cats, or watch movies. She loves to hear from readers and can be found all over the internet.

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Profile Image for Kathleen.
1,440 reviews141 followers
June 1, 2019
Minus one star for typical Megan-Derr disdain for good editing.

A fun, single-author anthology set in a magical, medieval-like world. Likable characters, a bit of world building, interesting intertwined stories.
Profile Image for Ami.
6,245 reviews489 followers
June 1, 2019
THE KNIGHT AND THE DRAGON: 3.5 stars
This was quite lovely. Topaz as a dragon was amusing. Loved how Topaz teased Bran about Bran wanting to kill himself by, well, challenging a dragon. Loved the way it ended too (with Bran being the King of the North)


THE KNIGHT AND THE STATUE: 2.5 stars
My least favorite because I thought there wasn't ANY romantic development written on page, and I thought Trey being a little too secretive. I loved his squire though, Victor. He was adorable!


THE KNIGHT AND THE PRINCE: 3.75 stars
My favorite of the series because VICTOR!!! He was so sweet!! He befriended animals ^^ I wanted to protect him from all of his bullies. The development between Victor and Shahzad was believable as well.


PS: rating rounded down because of all of the typos. I'm used to the (lack of) editing quality coming from the re-release of this author, but seriously, they are a LOT in here... more than I could easily dismiss
Profile Image for Relly.
1,658 reviews29 followers
May 26, 2019
Good

3.5 ⭐️

Enjoyable short stories that all interconnected.
Bran and Topaz - a good start. I felt for Bran when the king wouldn’t let him out of his service. I liked the way Bran worked to do what was right in the North and help the people.

Trey and Dunstan - this one was more about Trey and his work in freeing Dunstan’s family. Dunstan only appeared at the very end. I liked Trey and enjoyed seeing him use his heritage.

Vincent and Shahzad. I enjoyed this one. I loved that Vincent found a home and somewhere he felt comfortable and safe outside of his family’s home.

I liked that they all interconnected and the storyline followed through.
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1,249 reviews159 followers
December 12, 2019
3.5 stars
Cute collection of three loosely interconnected short stories about knights and the men they fall for.

Content warnings include: violence and murder, suicidal ideation, bullying, curse, assassination attempt(s), character gets pushed off a cliff.

All three of the stories are cute and work well on their own, but I liked their loose connection through main characters shifting to become side characters and vice versa, as well as advancing the timeline advancing between the stories.

My favourite story was The Knight and the Prince. It had an unexpected element to it that I enjoyed, and I liked that the couple interacted a lot there, whereas in the other two stories, particularly The Knight and the Statue, protagonist and love interest barely have any direct interaction/dialogue (due to one of them being a statue, duh, though they both knew each other well before the story began.)

All of them are short stories and thus skip big chunks of events that could have been written in detail to make each of them a full length novel or novella at least. I didn't mind that too much, as the stories work very well in their short format.

One thing that they all have in common is that the couples only get together on the very last page, kind of following a fairytale theme (not sure if that's the correct term for it.) As such there is a quite a bit of pining.

There are a few editing errors, not a lot but obvious ones like missing or extra paragraphs. I wish those had been fixed, though they didn't bother me overly much.
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2,698 reviews100 followers
April 7, 2020
Even without reading the foreword, it is easy to tell that this is Derr's early work. The characters are rather flat and the plots seem more skeletal than fully fleshed out.

And of course, this was just as riddled with editing issues as all Derr's works. Text in italics that shouldn't be. Spaces missing between words. Typos. In fact, one of the main character's love interest has his name spelled two different ways.
Profile Image for Shelby.
3,361 reviews93 followers
September 18, 2020
There are a few little grammatical things in this story that show how early in Megan Derr's writing it is, but the story itself is lovely. I liked all three of little shorts in this book. Each one is unique and quirky with lots of fun magic. All of the characters were the type of good souled, on the side of the right and the just, that you want with your fantasy novels.

I also liked that each story built on the previous one. Each couple was lovely and I enjoyed them all.
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37 reviews
July 11, 2025
dnf 41%

i feel like the exposition is all over the place and i can't really seem to enjoy this book as much as i'd like to :-(( which sucks but . what can you do .
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3,801 reviews30 followers
December 29, 2019
Three knights, three short interconnecting stories with a dragon, a statue and a prince. I enjoyed all three but the last one was my favourite followed by Trey’s story. Does need a spellcheck.
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1,980 reviews41 followers
February 28, 2024
All three can easily be read as standalones, but if you like one you will also like the other two so do yourself a favour and read all three, preferably in order ;)
I've read them four times already and will probably read this trilogy many more times in the future. I rated the stories four stars the first two times, five stars the third time and again four stars the fourth time. I love Derr's fantasy worlds and I keep coming back to read them, especially the short stories, they are wonderful literary snacks in between life.

Review of The Knight & the Dragon (0h 51min/ 54min/ 59min, 1h 5min):
I love me a story about a dragon and a human (most often warriors of a kind) finding love.
Here we encounter a knight captain tired of battle and death, only wishing to be free, but denied freedom by his king. He sets out to hunt a dragon, seeking his own death. The dragon has other plans, though, and seeks his own freedom. The two of them set out to achieve it together.

Review of The Knight & the Statue (0h 43min/ 54min/ 56min):
This is really interesting, the love interest is actually not an active part of the story. And still it worked really well! I found this story very captivating.

Review of The Knight & the Prince (0h 47min/ 54min/ 59min):
A knight (sweet Victor) shunned by his peers for liking things neat, clean and tidy gets send to the closed off and exotic East as an emissary.
Profile Image for Katy.
129 reviews
May 19, 2019
3.5 stars

I loved the stories, but there were a number of grammatical errors in the book and I felt all three stories ended way too abruptly.
Profile Image for ☾⋆⁺ Nurse After Dark.
1,036 reviews15 followers
August 13, 2022
I gather that this collection was published in 2019 but these are actually some of Derr's earlier writings. Despite this, you can still feel the nuances to the characters that is classic of Derr's works.

"You humans are idiotic at times but not complete idiots. There is.. a certain charm to your lifestyle. Except for the incessant need to kill dragons.."

The Knight and the Dragon was a nice, fairytale-esque short story to open this trilogy with. I quite enjoyed Bran's evolution from knight to . Topaz's playful conversation to bring their feelings to the forefront was lovely.

Beyond the wall, within the garden proper, it looked as though the world had died.

I found The Knight and the Statue strangely reminiscent of Marcia Lynn Mcclure's A Crimson Frost. I think it was the way Trey thought/spoke and how he carried himself. Though the love interest was , this one was quite sweet in its backstory between the two. I would read this as a full length in a heartbeat if Derr ever went back and expanded it!

"What are you doping?" he asked when Shazad finally let him breathe.
"Misbehaving."


And finally, The Knight and the Prince was just all around warm and fuzzy - I was surprised when the I think this was my favorite in the 3 stories.
Profile Image for Jenn (not Lily).
4,806 reviews27 followers
September 1, 2020
An absolutely lovely little trio. Although there are definitely some editing problems, I can see from these early stories a glimmer of the author that we now enjoy in her prime.
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1,018 reviews6 followers
March 16, 2024
This volume republishes Derr's first three short stories (circa 2009ish?), an interconnected trilogy of tales about knights in a world divided by four kingdoms named imaginatively enough North, South, East, and West. She does show some solid character building here, but the very shortness of the stories doesn't allow for a lot of depth, both in world building or characters except within the main character. I wish when republishing these, she had taken the time to edit more thoroughly, there were were spelling errors and awkward sentence construction sprinkled through the prose.

The Knight and the Dragon - 4 Stars
Bran is a knight who has been in service to the King of the West for over 30 years. He's just seen his squire killed in action, he's tired of always being on the frontlines, and he wants to retire. He's been given a castle and lands during his service that he's never seen because he's always sent away to do his duty. When he presents his request to leave service, the king says "oh no, you're too much needed, we'll revisit this in 5 years." So when Bran hears about a dragon threatening a small remote town, he volunteers to go deal with it. His plan is to eliminate the dragon, and in doing so, position himself so he dies along with it. Only the dragon Topaz isn't what he expected... and has other ideas, and feelings.

The Knight and the Statute -2 Stars
Set about 5 years after The Knight and the Dragon, Grey (a minor knight) is asked to return to the North castle where he was found as a child, climbing up out of the mists that surround it. It seems Dunstan's family is being plagued by a curse inflicted by bandits, and the family believes Grey can help resolve it. Once Grey arrives, he discovers Dunstan is a statute, surrounded by impenetrable brush of roses, his sister has a painful curse wearing her down, and the bandits are squatting in the castle to prevent anyone from coming to the family's rescue.
There could have been more interaction between Grey and Dunstan.


The Knight and the Prince - 2 Stars
After being bullied again by his fellow knights, Victor (Grey's former squire) escapes in the North woods to calm down. He hears sounds of battle nearby and saves Prince Amir of the East from being attacked by Western soldiers in disguise as Northern Soldiers. Amir was on his way to visit the South Kingdom and somehow they were herded to the North. Victor is sent by Bran and Topaz to assure the Eastern King that Amir is well and okay. The two kingdoms decide to pretend hostilities to flush out the West and their spies. Prince Shahzad is Victor's guide during the months he spends in the castle.
Victor was engaging but there was zero tension here between Victor and Shahzad. This one fell flat for me.

Overall I'd rate this closer to 2.25, but because I generally always find Derr's work enjoyable to read, I'm grading on scale. 3 stars.
Profile Image for Chancey "Does not give out 5's like candy"  Knowles.
1,208 reviews19 followers
February 15, 2020
Blurb =
Did a good job of describing the essence of all 3 stories

My Genre Scale =
Magic, Dragons, and Knights are definitely a 5 start favorite read of mine.

Odds if not your genre =
I would not suggest - unless in the mood for sweet short stories lightly connected, and one is not sensitive to typos etc...

What stood out =
Really good for first stories. But when republished, could have used some polishing up.

Mood Type / Appeal to =
When wanting essay escapism and/or there isn't much time for trading

Warnings =
Not for those easily thrown out by typos and editing issues and absolutely no sexy times to be had

Rating Notes = I really enjoyed the stories and the world. They were sweet, but nothing really stood out to pull it above average.

Factors:
Since 2009, I have exclusively read m/m. My 1st was in 2007. I am a Kindle diehard, and I never do audio for m/m. . I read at least 100+ books a year - at an average length of 220± pages; but the total number of books is usually much, much, higher. My Goodreads lifetime rating (at the start of 2020) was a 3.72 average for 1390 books.
303 reviews
December 12, 2020
This is a sweet collection of three semi-intertwined stories. I had previously read both The Knight and the Dragon and The Knight and the Statue as separate e-books but The Knight and the Prince was new to me. I was excited to find these story as a paper edition because I still MUCH PREFER paper books to e-books. All three stories were engaging but my favorite couple was knight Trey and mage Dunstan. If I were to pick a couple from this trilogy that I most wish was fleshed out into a full-length novel with more details or to have a sequel it would be them. They are both such strong men and equally so vulnerable when it comes to their feelings towards each other. And I would have loved to see more of their fostering and adoption of Victor which happened after the end of their tale and is only briefly mentioned in The Knight and the Prince which skips ahead in time to when Victor is an adult and a knight himself and features him as one of the lead characters. But despite my preference all three of these stories are charming and well worth a read.
66 reviews
July 31, 2021
I liked this three part tale

Dragons and magic and love...what more could you ask for in a story. The book is divided into three segments but all the characters flow through subsequent events. First you have Bran and Topaz fighting to restore order to the Northern Kingdom after the King was murdered. Next we have Trey going off to rid an important family of a curse that could destabilize the new peace if it is allowed to continue. Last we have Victor saving a prince of the Eastern Kingdom and all the intrigue that comes from political games. It's a fun romp and, as always, I'm left wanting more. Give it a try if your in the mood for a low (to no) sex tale.
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2,870 reviews13 followers
August 10, 2019
Loved it! I always enjoy these interconnected stories, where one leads into the next but brings it somewhere completely different at the same time. The knights in each story were unique, each one trying to find a place in a world that they don't quite feel like they fit in. Be it loneliness, different abilities, family ties, lack of friends, they all didn't feel entirely at home in what should have been their home. Each one had a different journey to help others which lead them to what they were looking for. Beautiful collection!
172 reviews2 followers
May 24, 2019
The author's oldest work, she says, and its age shows. This is true, as her writing has improved a lot since then, but it seems I like her older works better than her new ones. Still, could have used checking for grammatical errors and even more a thorough editing. But the stories invoke the feeling of fantasy and fairytale that I've come to love about a lot of Derr's books.
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25 reviews3 followers
February 17, 2020
Torn

I really liked the stories but felt they all didn't really conclude or concluded really abruptly. I really liked the characters but it seems that the actual romance wasn't really there. I think it was because of the length of the stories, which limited the interactions of the characters and created more telling of developing feelings than showing of developing feelings.
1,847 reviews3 followers
May 19, 2019
Cute!

Sweet interconnected short love stories set in a far away land with dragons, magic, and knights. Little bites of awesome. Some proofreading issues here and there if that bothers you, but It didn’t affect the stories for me at all.
202 reviews
May 21, 2019
A trilogy of tales

Another wondrous group of short stories that the so seamlessly together that you would be hard pressed to tell when one stopped and the next started if Ms. Derr had not pointed it out. That being said, there are a few editing errors.
5 reviews
May 24, 2019
Short and simple

The stories were short and almost too simple. They each could have easily been twice as long. The romances and plots all felt very underdeveloped and the conflicts where solved almost all out of scene.
Profile Image for Teresa.
90 reviews4 followers
June 29, 2019
Cute, light, a fun read. The digital copy I had needs a hard line edit. Some of the typos are typical of Megan Derr’s work (sense for since, for example), and nothing was so egregious as to throw me out of the stories.
1 review
October 2, 2019
Awesome

I love this author, and her short story series will always have a special place in my heart. These short stories were especially reminiscent of her fairytale series but had the knight genre interwoven throughout! Once again Megan Derr has delivered an amazing read!
100 reviews1 follower
January 30, 2021
Sweet love stories!

Although one of her older stories, this is one of my favorites. I only wish there were an epilogue to wrap up. I especially love the last story - Victor’s story.
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178 reviews
May 27, 2019
I do love Megan Deer

The author is still a buy for me even with my Kindle Unlimited. From the three stories I liked the third the best, but no regrets here.
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347 reviews
November 15, 2019
Between 3 and 4, as it just felt so... unfinished. I wish each story had a bit more to it.
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366 reviews14 followers
September 26, 2020
Cute gay romances. The book definitely needed some copy editing but the writing is good enough that it can be overlooked.
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1,638 reviews47 followers
January 26, 2021
3.5 stars rounding up

Although this edition was released in 2019, I read the stories of the 2010 edition and instead of having 3 short stories with no cover I'm using this edition to mark them up.
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