One thing I have especially enjoyed about the Age of Fire series is that you could pick up any of the novels and start with it. You could easily read Dragon Outcast without having read Dragon Champion or Dragon Avenger and still enjoy it completely as a stand-alone novel. Yet if you have been fortunate enough to read the other books, then this it only increases the depth and breadth of the one you took off the shelf.

Knight continues to be a wonderful writer. He has taken dragons and made them both more and less than what the fairy tales had given. Many stories of dragons make them majestic and helpful, or split them into “good” and “evil” dragons usually dependent on scale color. But Knight’s dragons are all of a whole, and color has nothing to do with personality. Good and evil designations are dependent on the nature of the dragon in question. The Copper is our hero, and anyone who has ever felt marginalized by the society in which they live will find they are very able to identify with the Copper’s struggles for recognition. I highly recommend you read Dragon Outcast.

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