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A Different Dragon Entirely
Author: Philip McBride

In A Different Dragon Entirely, novelist McBride acknowledges his half-century love of dragon fantasy literature by writing a dragon novel. Being a life-long Texan, McBride pictured his dragon as Texas-centric.Suppose one little horny toad grew from four inches long to the size of a house, sported batwings, flew high in the sky, squirted acidic ... more »blood hundreds of yards, and ate buffalo. That aptly describes Leine, the main character in a dragon fantasy tale set on the Texas frontier in 1840. Leine is a unique giant flying Texas horny toad in a story that is vaguely inspired by British author Naomi Novik?s Temeraire Napoleonic dragon series.Real horny toads are native to western North American and are becoming ever more rare. McBride saw them occasionally as a boy, but his last encounter was twenty years ago in New Mexico. The subspecies of Texas horny toads enjoys the ability to spurt streams of stinky blood from their eyes. The squatty little lizards are just 3 to 4 inches long and are wide, almost oval shaped, yet they can squirt defensive coyote-deterring blood up to three feet. Looking closely at a Texas horny toad head-on, one sees an oddly appealing dragon face if ever there was one?a wide mouth, amber scales and a row of tall spikes over its round eyes.McBride, through the efforts of the book?s first character, created a huge dragon from a little horny toad. In addition to magically up-sizing the palm-sized lizard, Padre Renato, an old Scottish rake-turned-priest, surgically added bat wings and a couple of other enhancements providing a tinge of the Frankenstein-esque to Leine.Written for young adults, A Different Dragon Entirely has ongoing action with a cast of settlers, outlaws, and Indians. Leine herself, now house-size after living in solitude on the Texas frontier for 100 years, is confronted by Mally Gunn, a defiant 15-year-old farm girl. During a traumatic first encounter when the dragon eats the girl?s valuable appaloosa mare, the two begin their telepathic talk in Latin, aided by an ancient Druid-Christian gold necklace.In spite of their first meeting, somehow the resolute teenage girl and the dragon with a ravenous appetite forge a unique bond. Yet, uncertainty bedevils the friendship. Is Leine human behind her amber scales? Or, is her prickly personality the camouflage of a cunning demon, as Mally?s family suspects? When the brutal war between Texas? Native Americans and white settlers touches Mally?s family, will the formidable dragon take sides?The action follows the historical 1840 great Comanche Raid in which 600 warriors rode from Central Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, burning towns and carrying out terrible depredations on the white population of early Texas. Historically, the raid ended in the Battle of Plum Creek. In McBride?s novel, Mally and Leine use wooden canteen bombs to stage a rescue aided by a whalebone corset in this dragon-fueled alternative history of the largest Indian raid in Texas history.Yet, for all its action set in the nascent Republic of Texas, A Different Dragon Entirely is in its core a girl-meets-dragon story

ISBN-13: 9781728740041
ISBN-10: 1728740045
Publication Date: 11/14/2018
Pages: 374
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Publisher: Independently published
Book Type: Paperback
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Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Westerns
Science Fiction & Fantasy >> Fantasy >> Historical
Science Fiction & Fantasy >> Fantasy >> Sword & Sorcery

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