What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. Kids Fantasy Series - Light-Hearted Parody set in a mysterious woods with cities/towns. Featuring knight-wannabes, badass ladies, talking harps, super-fast non-magic using wizards, and of course, dragons! [s]
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Yeah, I know how the bumping works, thanks for letting me know. Just wasn't entirely sure what the chances were when I hadn't got a single reply at all, not even any questions to try and narrow it down.
Well, after about a half hour or more of searching, I think I found your series.Tales of the Dark Forest Series by Steve Barlow
https://www.goodreads.com/series/66522
Well. Damn. That's exactly it, thank you very much!... Wait there's only 4 books in the series? Awwwww... I was hoping there's more. Can't remember if the series had a satisfying ending or not...
You're welcome :) You can always try his other series.
Book 1 has some of the typical strokes of a fantasy novel. It features a city in a dark and mysterious forest. A young plucky lad who wants to be a knight, and is sent on a quest to head through the Forest to slay a dragon. One that I'm 90% sure lives in a mountain, or mountain range. He’s joined by a lady who I’m pretty sure lives in said forest, and wields a crossbow? I think that’s her weapon of choice? Anyway, I don’t remember the middle bit too much, but I do remember the ending:
(view spoiler)[So instead of slaying the dragon, the hero befriends the dragon instead, and returns with a magic stone. An arrogant noble grabs the stone, and his rage transforms him into a dragon as well. The actual dragon turns up and fights him, but only wins when the hero uses the stone to tell the dragon to fly straight up in the air. As he’s followed, the noble-turned-dragon’s rage gets replaced by exhaustion, shattering the transformation while he’s far above the city. Needless to say. He gots splat.
After this, the hero and the forest lady decide to head back out into the forest to explore it and hopefully find other cities. (hide spoiler)]
Now, I think the next two books follow other characters, and one of them is either called ‘Wizard!’ or ‘Wizzard!’. Focusing on the creation of a potion that turns one of the characters into a Wizard. Except instead of being a creature of great magical talent and powers. It gives them the power of super-speed. Pretty useful for traversing the forest and going from settlement to settlement safely.
Book 4 focuses back on the knight and the crossbow lady, who has also picked up a talking harp. They arrive at a city that is beset by a ‘Knightmare’, a knight-looking creature that invades people’s dreams and makes it so they can never wake up! I don’t remember too much of this, except for the fact that the (view spoiler)[main hero is drugged asleep (hide spoiler)] and that the final confrontation is, of course, a jousting competition between our main hero and the Knightmare! With the Knightmare removing the fencing that keeps the two horses from smashing into one another as they joust.
That’s everything I can recall at this time. Here’s hoping that people can help me find this series. I would love to buy it and read it properly after all these years. Who knows, maybe there are more books in the series as well?
Really hope this is a good and informative opening post, I’ll try my best to answer any questions you might have!