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Novice Dragoneer

Par / By E. E. Knight

 

[FR] Dans le premier livre d’une nouvelle série fantastique passionnante et charmante sur le passage à l’âge adulte, écrite par l’auteur de la série Age of Fire, une jeune fille pauvre entre dans un ordre militaire de dragonriders, mais son chemin ne sera pas aussi facile ou aussi direct qu’elle le pensait.

 

[EN] In the first book in an exciting and charming new coming-of-age fantasy series from the author of the Age of Fire series, an impoverished girl enters into a military order of dragonriders, but her path won’t be as easy or as straight forward as she expected.

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Ileth, quatorze ans, a grandi dans un orphelinat et, en raison de son bégaiement, on ne pensait pas qu’elle serait destinée à autre chose qu’à faire la cuisine et le ménage. Mais elle a toujours rêvé de servir avec les dragons depuis sa rencontre avec un dragon argenté étincelant et sa dragonne. Pendant des années, elle attend, et dès qu’elle est en âge de s’engager, Ileth s’enfuit pour devenir dragonneau novice dans l’ancienne forteresse humano-dragon de la Serpentine.

Alors que la plupart de ses compagnons d’apprentissage sont issus de familles riches et influentes, Ileth doit se battre pour se faire une place dans le monde, même si cela implique un duel avec son patron à la table des mangeurs de poissons. Elle est ensuite envoyée chez les danseurs de dragon après un baiser stupide avec un garçon au nom célèbre et on lui confie la responsabilité d’un vieux dragon malade au passé mystérieux. Mais elle découvre que ces épreuves n’étaient rien lorsqu’elle doit prendre la place d’un dragonnier décédé et s’occuper de son dragon emprisonné sur les terres ennemies…..

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Fourteen-year-old Ileth grew up in an orphanage, and thanks to her stutter was never thought to be destined for much beyond kitchen work and cleaning. But she’s dreamed of serving with the dragons ever since a childhood meeting with a glittering silver dragon and its female dragoneer. For years she waits, and as soon as she is old enough to join, Ileth runs away to become a novice dragoneer at the ancient human-dragon fortress of the Serpentine.

While most of her fellow apprentices are from rich and influential families, Ileth must fight for her place in the world, even if it includes a duel with her boss at the fish-gutting table. She’s then sent off to the dragon-dancers after a foolish kiss with a famously named boy and given charge of a sickly old dragon with a mysterious past. But she finds those trials were nothing when she has to take the place of a dead dragoner and care for his imprisoned dragon in enemy lands….

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Auteur.rice / Author

E. E. Knight est né dans le Wisconsin, a grandi dans le Minnesota et habite maintenant Chicago, où il vit dans la félicité domestique avec sa famille et ses divers animaux domestiques. Il est l’auteur de la série Age of Fire et de la série Vampire Earth.

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E. E. Knight was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Minnesota, and now calls Chicago home, where he abides in domestic felicity with his family and assorted pets. He is the author of the Age of Fire series and the Vampire Earth series.

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