Twice Drowned Dragon

Gryphonpike Chronicles #2

by Annie Bellet

The mute elven archer known only as Killer. Azyrin, a half Winter-orc shaman and his human swordswoman bride, Makha. Drake, the charming, swashbuckling rogue. The fireball-slinging pixie-goblin, Rahiel, and her mini-unicorn, Bill. These are the Gryphonpike Companions.

On route to the town of Coldragon, the Companions find a peaceful monastery threatened by necromantic evil and get a chance to answer an important question: How many times can you kill a dragon?

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Paranormal

103 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 31, 2012

About the author

Annie Bellet is a full-time speculative fiction writer. She holds a BA in English and a BA in Medieval Studies and thus can speak a smattering of useful languages such as Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Welsh.

Her books include Avarice (Pyrrh Considerable Crimes Division: Book 1), The Gryphonpike Chronicles series, and the Twenty-Sided Sorceress series.

Her interests besides writing include rock climbing, reading, horse-back riding, video games, comic books, table-top RPGs, and many other nerdy pursuits.


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Reviews

[✘✘ Sarah ✘✘ (former Nefarious Breeder of Murderous Crustaceans) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actual rating: 3.5 stars.

Quite a few people —some of them my very own Friends of Despicable Book Taste (FoDBT™)— seem to think the books in this series are naught but subpar accounts of crappy D&D quests.



My FoDBT™ are so unintentionally funny sometimes. And the way they keep reading books wrong is truly hilarious astonishing. Poor things. They must have fallen victim to the deadly I Read All Books Back to Front and Upside Down Ergo My Opinion Cannot Be Trusted Virus (IRABBtFaUDEMYCBTV™). How sad indeed.

Anyway, want to know why you shouldn’t listen to the Lovely People of the Slightly Erroneous Judgment (LPotSEJ™) and read the books in this series despite everything they have to say against them? Because yes, these stories are kinda sorta light and yes, they are kinda sorta your typical Adventure Quest Type Thingie (AQTT™), but: they are also fun and entertaining and fast-paced with a great cast of characters (need I remind you that one of them is a bloody shrimping mini-unicorn?!) and cool creatures and weird beasts and cool fights and stuff. Also, they are cheap, quick reads. What more could you bloody fishing want, I ask you, Tiny Decapods mine?! “Nothing,” you say? Thought so. Ergo:



· Book 1: Witch Hunt ★★★★
· Book 3: A Stone's Throw ★★★★
· Book 4: Dead of Knight ★★★★
· Book 5: Brood Mother ★★★★
· Book 6: Into the North ★★★★★

[Elinor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dans la lignée du premier : une aventure fun. On a quelques petits débuts d'indices sur ce qui a causé la malédiction de Killer.

Just like the first : a fun adventure. We get some small clues about why Killer is cursed.

[Anniken Haga · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review written on my phone, so pardon any weird mistakes.

A light and easy read following the first story. Still feeling like a DnD-scenario - which I don't mind at all.
I did space out a little during the fight scenes, but that's more on my own health than the book, so.

[Jonathan G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Annie Bellet hits home run after home run!

These chronicles are the best serialized adventures I read in a long time & should be used as source material in any game master's role playing experience.

[Karen ⚜Mess⚜ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Makha got some epic loot!

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series feels like an actual D & D party. I being an old player enjoys this. This may not be a great book but it is fun. Dragons are hard to kill and necromancers are not nice, Who knew.

[Polly · Rating 5 out of 5]

The second addition to the series was just as good as the first. I am really enjoying learning more
about the little troop of fighters.

[Sharon Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second novella in this series I've read and again a fun read with interesting characters and tight scenarios for the novella. Writing is smooth, the characterization is polished, and I don't have an issue with the possible similarity to Dungeons and Dragons mentioned by other reviews as I've no exposure to that.

Overall, liked the writing, the story, the characters even though I tend to prefer full length books but certainly entertaining and it was a free download for me. I see it is now priced at $2.99, as are additional novellas in the series and while that would work for me for a full-length book, it doesn't for a short novella that I can read in a couple of hours.

[Paul Devall · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having picked this book up on Kindle for nothing I didn't realise it was a novella or as I am sure we used to call them short-stories, nor did I realise it was book two.

Not bad read when on a train journey. Doubt I'll buy any more of the series though.

[Modrukinstealer · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good fun read.

[Christine Hayes · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoy the characters. They are interesting and varied. Am looking forward to learning more about each one of them

[Tera Jade · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing

I went through novellas ore and two tonight and lived them both. I want so badly to read more but I am poor

[TONY · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great adventure!
More please
1000 good deeds yet I only see four books?
More to come after the fourth book?

[Jwales42 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great books, keep them coming!