Series
Dragon Jousters
Mercedes Lackey · 4 novels · 1 novella · 2003–2006
Mercedes Lackey's Dragon Jousters series is set in an Egyptian-flavored fantasy world where warring kingdoms ride tamed dragons into battle. It follows Vetch, a conquered boy forced into servitude as a dragon boy who ends up bonding with and training a dragon of his own, complicating his place between enemy nations. The five novels trace his rise from serf to jouster across a continuous story published in the mid-2000s.
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The order the books came out.
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- 2000s5
Shape
4 novels · 1 novella
1 author
reads like:fantasydragonssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
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- Joustdarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense