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Dragonsgate: Devils
Dungeons! Dragons! Dinosaurs! Graxen and Nadala are sky-dragons exiled beyond the Cursed Mountains. With Nadala too pregnant to fly further, they take refuge in a remote valley where they hunted by primordial predators even bigger and toothier than dragons. When it seems like things can't get worse, the legendary dragon slayer Bitterwood arrives, drawn to the valley on a quest for lost relics from the Human Age. Men battle dragons, dragons fight men, and dinosaurs are out to eat everyone in this epic adventure from acclaimed storyteller James Maxey! Maxey feels he can confidently claim that this will be the best dragons versus dinosaurs novel you read all year! Dragonsgate: Devils, include both the new novel and three bonus novellas from the Dragonsgate: Preludes & Omens collection.
391 pages, Hardcover
Published January 26, 2025
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About the author
James Maxey
96 books188 followersI've been an avid reader since I first picked up a book. Luckily, I was within biking distance of three different libraries growing up. I was a skinny kid. If only I had maintained that link between biking and reading, I might be a skinny adult.
I'm also a writer. I wrote my first book as a kid, an adventure about pirates and ghosts. When I was a teenager, I used to write superhero adventures. Then I went to college and was steered toward writing "literature." It took me several years to shake that off, and today I write the sort of books I devoured by the shelf when I was sixteen, fast-paced fantasy, SF, and superhero adventures, which I use to explore deeper questions about life. My goal is to always be thought-provoking and always be fun.
I've had short stories in about a dozen anthologies and magazines. My novels to date are:
Nobody Gets the Girl
The Dragon Age trilogy
Bitterwood
Dragonforge
Dragonseed
Burn Baby Burn
The Dragon Apocalypse
Greatshadow (January 2012) -- A team of superpowered adventurers are recruited by the Church of the Book to extinguish the primal dragon of fire, Greatshadow.
Hush (July 2012) -- An effort to complete a quest for a fallen friend, the warrior woman Infidel stumbles onto a plot to kill Glorious, the primal dragon of the sun, and plunge the world into permanent cold and darkness, the elemental domain of the dragon Hush.
Witchbreaker (January 2013) -- A young witch named Sorrow has lost control of her magic after tapping into the spirit of Rott, the primal dragon of decay. Her desperate quest to save what remains of her humanity leads to an uneasy alliance with an amnesiatic warrior who might be the legendary champion of the church known as the Witchbreaker. But can there combined powers prevail when they trigger the wrath of Tempest, the primal dragon of storms?
I'm also a writer. I wrote my first book as a kid, an adventure about pirates and ghosts. When I was a teenager, I used to write superhero adventures. Then I went to college and was steered toward writing "literature." It took me several years to shake that off, and today I write the sort of books I devoured by the shelf when I was sixteen, fast-paced fantasy, SF, and superhero adventures, which I use to explore deeper questions about life. My goal is to always be thought-provoking and always be fun.
I've had short stories in about a dozen anthologies and magazines. My novels to date are:
Nobody Gets the Girl
The Dragon Age trilogy
Bitterwood
Dragonforge
Dragonseed
Burn Baby Burn
The Dragon Apocalypse
Greatshadow (January 2012) -- A team of superpowered adventurers are recruited by the Church of the Book to extinguish the primal dragon of fire, Greatshadow.
Hush (July 2012) -- An effort to complete a quest for a fallen friend, the warrior woman Infidel stumbles onto a plot to kill Glorious, the primal dragon of the sun, and plunge the world into permanent cold and darkness, the elemental domain of the dragon Hush.
Witchbreaker (January 2013) -- A young witch named Sorrow has lost control of her magic after tapping into the spirit of Rott, the primal dragon of decay. Her desperate quest to save what remains of her humanity leads to an uneasy alliance with an amnesiatic warrior who might be the legendary champion of the church known as the Witchbreaker. But can there combined powers prevail when they trigger the wrath of Tempest, the primal dragon of storms?
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June 26, 2020
Another Great Bitterwood Adventure!
Like the first four novels in the Bitterwood series (technically called the "Dragon Age" series"), we get idea-packed adventure in a world run by dragons, where mankind fights for its freedom and its very survival. There are lots of great characters, both human and dragon, but the standout throughout the series is Bitterwood, the greatest dragon slayer of them all - and yet, more and more, we get his inner thoughts and doubts about what he does. The other characters are also vivid and interesting - it's much like Game of Thrones in the large cast of stand-out characters. In this latest page-turner, told from many points of view, we have humans and dragons, both good and evil - plus, for the first time in the series - dinosaurs!!! But with all the adventures and fighting, and debates (as characters, good and evil, human and dinosaur, argue and plot together), the story never forgets that it's about real people and real dragons, all trying to do what's best, either for all or for themselves - or, in some cases, doing what they just have to do.
The minor spoiler about all this (look away if you really don't want to know!) is that this is science fiction, not fantasy. During the series, we gradually learn about the distant past - which is our high-tech future before everything falls apart. In some ways, in the science fictional and philosophical sense, it's reminiscent of Planet of the Apes - but as interesting as those apes were, wait until you meet all the earth-dragons (including the memorable "Bigmouth"), warrior sky-dragons, the huge and magnificent sun-dragons, and the greatest dragon of them all, the nearly invincible Hex - who, unlike your standard fantasy dragon, gets his great powers through high-tech!
Like the first four novels in the Bitterwood series (technically called the "Dragon Age" series"), we get idea-packed adventure in a world run by dragons, where mankind fights for its freedom and its very survival. There are lots of great characters, both human and dragon, but the standout throughout the series is Bitterwood, the greatest dragon slayer of them all - and yet, more and more, we get his inner thoughts and doubts about what he does. The other characters are also vivid and interesting - it's much like Game of Thrones in the large cast of stand-out characters. In this latest page-turner, told from many points of view, we have humans and dragons, both good and evil - plus, for the first time in the series - dinosaurs!!! But with all the adventures and fighting, and debates (as characters, good and evil, human and dinosaur, argue and plot together), the story never forgets that it's about real people and real dragons, all trying to do what's best, either for all or for themselves - or, in some cases, doing what they just have to do.
The minor spoiler about all this (look away if you really don't want to know!) is that this is science fiction, not fantasy. During the series, we gradually learn about the distant past - which is our high-tech future before everything falls apart. In some ways, in the science fictional and philosophical sense, it's reminiscent of Planet of the Apes - but as interesting as those apes were, wait until you meet all the earth-dragons (including the memorable "Bigmouth"), warrior sky-dragons, the huge and magnificent sun-dragons, and the greatest dragon of them all, the nearly invincible Hex - who, unlike your standard fantasy dragon, gets his great powers through high-tech!
November 21, 2020
James Maxey never let's me down. He characters are complex, some pure evil, some pure and some in between. His stories are always fast moving and full of surprises. Dragonsgate: Devils is another winner. Continuing the stories of some of the main characters from the Bitterwood collection. This is unputdownable. The only negative I have is, the next book in the series isn't available yet.
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