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The Dragon Queen of Chaos #4
Knight Commander: A Coming of Age Epic Fantasy Adventure
Jarryd has been marked by the Dragon Queen and there is no escape… Jarryd and his friends barely survive an ambush by an Imperial death squad. But they do not survive unscathed, for the leader of the assassins has left the Queen’s mark on Jarryd. Now the Dragon Queen haunts Jarryd’s dreams and his body is starting to change. He fears that soon he will belong to her. Desperate, Jarryd convinces his friends to journey to the blighted wasteland that was once the kingdom of Lethos, once ruled by the Thaumaturges. Centuries ago, the Thaumaturges wielded unimaginable power, great enough that not even the Dragonwatch Knights could defeat them. But their power was evil and in their wars against each other they destroyed the land. Is the power still there? Can Jarryd learn to wield it or will it destroy him as well?
- GenresFantasy
277 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 7, 2020
About the author
Eric T. Knight
35 books120 followersBorn in 1965, I grew up on a working cattle ranch in the desert thirty miles from Wickenburg, Arizona, which at that time was exactly the middle of nowhere. Work, cactus and heat were plentiful, forms of recreation were not. The TV got two channels when it wanted to, and only in the evening after someone hand cranked the balky diesel generator to life. All of which meant that my primary form of escape was reading.
At 18 I fled to Tucson where I attended the University of Arizona. A number of fruitless attempts at productive majors followed, none of which stuck. Discovering I liked writing, I tried journalism two separate times, but had to drop it when I realized that I had no intention of conducting interviews with actual people but preferred simply making them up.
After graduating with a degree in Creative Writing in 1989, I backpacked Europe with a friend and caught the travel bug. With no meaningful job prospects, I hitchhiked around the U.S. for a while then went back to school to learn to be a high school English teacher. I got a teaching job right out of school in the middle of the year. The job lasted exactly one semester, or until I received my summer pay and realized I actually had money to continue backpacking.
The next stop was Australia, where I hoped to spend six months, working wherever I could, then a few months in New Zealand and the South Pacific. However, my plans changed irrevocably when I met a lovely Swiss woman, Claudia, in Alice Springs. Undoubtedly swept away by my lack of a job or real future, she agreed to allow me to follow her back to Switzerland where, a few months later, she gave up her job to continue traveling with me. Over the next couple years we backpacked the U.S., Eastern Europe and Australia/New Zealand, before marrying and settling in the mountains of Colorado, in a small town called Salida.
In Colorado we starved and froze, started our own electronics business, and had a couple of sons, Dylan and Daniel. In 2005 we shut the business down and moved back to Tucson.
I am currently working on finishing The Devastation Wars fantasy series and attending graduate school.
At 18 I fled to Tucson where I attended the University of Arizona. A number of fruitless attempts at productive majors followed, none of which stuck. Discovering I liked writing, I tried journalism two separate times, but had to drop it when I realized that I had no intention of conducting interviews with actual people but preferred simply making them up.
After graduating with a degree in Creative Writing in 1989, I backpacked Europe with a friend and caught the travel bug. With no meaningful job prospects, I hitchhiked around the U.S. for a while then went back to school to learn to be a high school English teacher. I got a teaching job right out of school in the middle of the year. The job lasted exactly one semester, or until I received my summer pay and realized I actually had money to continue backpacking.
The next stop was Australia, where I hoped to spend six months, working wherever I could, then a few months in New Zealand and the South Pacific. However, my plans changed irrevocably when I met a lovely Swiss woman, Claudia, in Alice Springs. Undoubtedly swept away by my lack of a job or real future, she agreed to allow me to follow her back to Switzerland where, a few months later, she gave up her job to continue traveling with me. Over the next couple years we backpacked the U.S., Eastern Europe and Australia/New Zealand, before marrying and settling in the mountains of Colorado, in a small town called Salida.
In Colorado we starved and froze, started our own electronics business, and had a couple of sons, Dylan and Daniel. In 2005 we shut the business down and moved back to Tucson.
I am currently working on finishing The Devastation Wars fantasy series and attending graduate school.
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
October 13, 2020
Book 4 in this epic coming of age fantasy adventure series and Jarryd is really maturing through all the experiences he and Hamisi have gone through. Jarryd had chosen the Princess when he saved her from a near death experience and he had felt her channeling kriyana and felt she could be a dragonwatch knight like himself. Now after escaping from Droth'alin and the arena they were joined by Kathor, who had also been a fighter slave in the arena, when Jarryd felt his ability to channel kriyana too. They were on their way to Kathor's home city Tirania, but when they got there against all expectations, they found that this city and all others on the way had been taken over by the Emperor and the Dragon Queen, the nemesis of Jarryd. Kathor's mother and her military friends helped them escape but they had to traverse the Barrens, where the cataclysm brought about by the Thaumaturges, a hundred years before had left the plains barren ever since. Jarryd could feel something pulling him towards the area at the centre of the cataclysm, where Kraven had built his tower and hidden his crystal of power. Jarryd lied to his friends, even though he was endangering all their lives, he just could not resist the pull. He vowed he did not want power but was going in search of it nonetheless. Hamisi was wary, she could tell he was hiding something from them and feared that Jarryd was changing but did not know why or how. His dreams were becoming more realistic so much so that he didn't know whether he was really being seen by the emperor and the queen. Had he become one of her own? He said he wanted to find the crystal to defeat the Emperor and the Dragon Queen, to restore the Dragonwatch Knights and to bring peace to their realm but even he had his doubts about this. I love the continuous thrilling adventure as our three knights travel across the lands but fear that Jarryd is forgetting the code he loved so much, and is being turned by the Queen of Chaos. Can he stay true to the code and to his quest? I am so intrigued by this series I just cannot wait to read book 5.
August 8, 2020
Best yet
Knights outdone himself as this book touches on a lot more of character development and history in this book and makes an exciting connection or two where we are left with some great teasers to come.
I think this may be his best series yet and so far my favourite of this particular series and I can't wait for book 5
Knights outdone himself as this book touches on a lot more of character development and history in this book and makes an exciting connection or two where we are left with some great teasers to come.
I think this may be his best series yet and so far my favourite of this particular series and I can't wait for book 5
August 16, 2020
One of the Best Series in a Long Time
I am reading 3 different series at this time because I’m waiting for each author to publish the next book in the series.
This series is by far the best of the 3. It is well written, engaging, and draws you into the story without hesitation.
I am reading 3 different series at this time because I’m waiting for each author to publish the next book in the series.
This series is by far the best of the 3. It is well written, engaging, and draws you into the story without hesitation.
September 1, 2020
Eric T Kight messed up my head... again!
Jarred just about survives again but will he be turned and used by the evil queen? Having claimed the yellow gem can he use it for good or will it take over his mind and soul... so many questions yet to be answered. Roll on the next in the series.
Jarred just about survives again but will he be turned and used by the evil queen? Having claimed the yellow gem can he use it for good or will it take over his mind and soul... so many questions yet to be answered. Roll on the next in the series.
August 22, 2020
It Ended too Soon
I deeply disliked the Barrens. Just when you think it can't get worse, it does. I liked getting more background information on the characters. I liked the Princess arguing. I want the next book now.
I deeply disliked the Barrens. Just when you think it can't get worse, it does. I liked getting more background information on the characters. I liked the Princess arguing. I want the next book now.
December 30, 2020
The Adventure Continues
The escape from Droth’alin is difficult and long. And their arrival in Kathor’s homeland is not what they expected. Lots of growth and development of our three knights and many new characters. Something is up with Jarryd as they head into the Barrens on the next leg of their journey.
The escape from Droth’alin is difficult and long. And their arrival in Kathor’s homeland is not what they expected. Lots of growth and development of our three knights and many new characters. Something is up with Jarryd as they head into the Barrens on the next leg of their journey.
August 16, 2020
It's a revealing follow-up of the series.
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