What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

I read this book somewhere in the range of 2003-2006. It was a newer book at the time I read it.


It was the third book in a fantasy trilogy. It had a range of characters, told from third person, and it followed each character at different times during the novel. It involved a battle either with dragons or against dragons. This third novel was the final battle, and it sounded like the first two novels must have been focusing on this large battle as well. It was set in a typical, other world medieval-esque setting.


It is not a DragonLance or Forgotten Realms novel.
It is not by:
Anne McCaffrey
Melanie Rawn
Mercedes Lackey
Patricia Wrede
Christopher Paolini
Naomi Novik
Shana Abe
Harry Turtledove

I assume it is not Chrisopher Paolini's Inheritance series, either, as I think it is more than three books now.

It's not anything by Paolini, no. That would be too easy. :)

Was it one of the Temeraire books? The first book is His Majesty's Dragon. This series is set in an alternate time-line where the Napoleonic War is going on.

Here's a list of dragons in lit, it's broken down by decades. Maybe you'll run across something that sounds familiar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...

It's not one of the Temeraire books, but those are on my list to read!

Melissa, it's none of the series in that list. :(

I know you mention that it's not by Mercedes Lackey, but this trilogy was co-written with James Mallory. In my opinion, they don't read much like a Lackey book. When Darkness Falls is the third.

Thanks, Brenda, but it's definitely not the Obsidian Trilogy. Although they're all good books!

Through The Darkness Is the 3rd book in "The Darkness" series by Harry Turtledove - might be what you're looking for

Thanks, Justine, but that's not it either.

I haven't read these, but thought I'd throw them out there as they are trilogies involving dragons....

The Age of Misrule series by Mark Chadbourn, book 3 is Always Forever?

The Dragonsdome Chronicles by Lucinda Hare, book 3 is Dragon Lords Rising?

Probably not gonna get that lucky, but worth a shot. lol

Melissa, I appreciate your efforts, but it's not either of those.

Jordan, do you remember anything about the cover?
Anything about any of the characters, weapons, other types of fantasy creatures (trolls, witches, etc)?

Tab wrote: "Jordan, do you remember anything about the cover?
Anything about any of the characters, weapons, other types of fantasy creatures (trolls, witches, etc)?"

I don't remember anything about the cover specifically, but I think if I saw it I would know it. I can't remember what other magical sources were in the book other than dragons. Sorry!

Some more trilogies ending around mid 2000s (third books shown)
Obsidian Chronicles:
Dragoncrown War Cycle:
Tale of Lanen Kaelar:

Jordan, you said you thought you'd recognize the cover if you saw it....maybe check out this list of books with dragons on the cover:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...

Or maybe this list of 'fantasy books with cool covers':


https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Lou wrote: "Some more trilogies ending around mid 2000s (third books shown)
Obsidian Chronicles:
Dragoncrown War Cycle:
Tale of Lanen Kaelar..."

Lou, The Grand Crusade looks the most promising. I'm going to investigate further. It's definitely not the Obsidian Chronicles (but I do enjoy those!), and I can rule out Tale of Lanen Kaelar because the book I read was written in third person, not first person.

Melissa wrote: "Jordan, you said you thought you'd recognize the cover if you saw it....maybe check out this list of books with dragons on the cover:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6......"

Melissa, I appreciate your efforts. It doesn't appear to be any of the books on the dragon-cover list.

Jordan, still looking or did you find this?

Still looking, thank you!

Harry Turtledove had a fantasy series that apparently used World War II battles as inspiration. It definitely had dragons in it, and jumping around to multiple viewpoint characters is something he does a lot

The third book in the series was Through the Darkness.

The synopsis mostly match The Archons of the Stars by Alison Baird but I'm not sure if it has multiple pov.

The Farseer Triliogy probably won't appear on dragon lists, though dragons play an important role. The third book was first published in 1997 but new editions are published frequently:

Giving this a bump since Jordan posted recently.

Eragon ?

Nope, not Eragon

Have you tried the Riftwar saga? A Darkness At Sethanon Is the final part of the trilogy and definitly has Dragons involved.

Will wrote: "Have you tried the Riftwar saga? A Darkness At Sethanon Is the final part of the trilogy and definitly has Dragons involved."

Nope, that's not it--but good effort! It was definitely published in the 2000s.

The Demon Child Trilogy by Jennifer Fallon?

The Council Wars series by John Ringo isn't too bad a fit for your description.
There Will Be Dragons

I doubt it but maybe Dragon Slippers?

Sam wrote: "The Council Wars series by John Ringo isn't too bad a fit for your description.
There Will Be Dragons"

I agree, but there were definitely not spaceships!

Ari wrote: "I doubt it but maybe Dragon Slippers?"

No, but thank you!

Jordan, it looks like you moved this to Possibly Solved. What book do you think it might be?

I'm tired of looking. Nothing sounds right, but The Grand Crusade sounds most right.