Tread carefully however, Dear Reader as the path King often treads isn’t for the faint hearted. I promise you will like it and you never know, you may find yourself reading outside of your comfort zone, so to speak. For anybody who enjoys fantasy books but has never given King a try because of his obvious horror roots should definitely give this book a try. Kings, princes, dragons, wizards and the fight of good against evil. It is a classic fantasy story in every sense. The resulting book I’m sure you will agree, although not one of his best by any means, would have done his daughter proud. King wrote this story for his daughter Naomi after she complained to him that all he ever wrote was horror stories and that “wouldn’t it be good if you could write something for children like me”. He manages to keep his familiar style of writing, one that keeps us turning the pages, long after the sun has set in the sky, and yet has written in an olde-worlde style that fits in perfectly with the genre. Stephen King’s first foray into the realms of fantasy couldn’t really have been written any better.
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