Thank you to the Parliament House for having me on the book tour for The Part About the Dragon Was (Mostly) True! All opinions are my own!
Quick Facts:
- Title: The Part About the Dragon Was (Mostly) True
- Series: Heloise the Bard, #1
- Author: Sean Gibson
- Publisher & Release: The Parliament House, Dec. 15th 2020
- Length: 308 pages
- Rate & Recommend: 🌟🌟🌟⚡ yes for comedy/fantasy fans
Here is the synopsis from Amazon:
Sure, you think you know the story of the fearsome red dragon, Dragonia. How it terrorized the village of Skendrick until a brave band of heroes answered the noble villagers’ call for aid. How nothing could stop those courageous souls from facing down the dragon. How they emerged victorious and laden with treasure.
But, even in a world filled with epic adventures and tales of derring-do, where dragons, goblins, and unlicensed prestidigitators run amok, legendary heroes don’t always know what they’re doing. Sometimes they’re clueless. Sometimes beleaguered townsfolk are more hapless than helpless. And orcs? They’re not always assholes, and sometimes they don’t actually want to eat your children. Heloise the Bard, Erithea’s most renowned storyteller (at least, to hear her tell it), is here to set the record straight.
See, it turns out adventuring isn’t easy, and true heroism is as rare as an articulate villager. Having spent decades propagating this particular myth (which, incidentally, she wrote), she’s finally able to tell the real story-for which she just so happened to have a front-row seat.
Welcome to Erithea. I hope you brought a change of undergarments-things are going to get messy
This is a comedic fantasy, from what I can see it actually started as a create your own adventure in a GoodReads group, then turned into a book! So Heloise the Bard is telling the epic tale of a band of adventurers that slayed the terrible Dragonia, who terrorizes the village of Skendrick…
.. Well, kind of. This book is her account of what *actually* happened. It is a look at the less glamorous parts of adventuring including vegetable eating dragons, pooping in swamps, rock giant rectums, orc hookups, idiotic peasants … Yeah you get the point hahahah.
The characters were a mixed group. There is an overly-foul mouthed rat wizard, a rock giant, a half elf, a half halfling-half dwarf, and a full elf. They are each pretty touchy and incompetent at times. I liked the rock giant the most, and found Heloise super annoying! She just was not funny to me. The rest were!
Some parts were really quite hilarious, others not so much. The only other thing I have read like it is Kevin Hearne’s Kill the Farm Boy series, which was a bit more clever and had more puns. Heloise uses a lot more toilet humor than dry wit. It is definitely not a boring book though, regardless. I would recommend for fantasy fans looking for a laugh, or those searching along the lines of Monty Python.
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