I'm a big fan of Canada - my husband's family all originate from Canada and are proud of their Acadian heritage. How can you not love a country where you buy milk in bags? Where they have safety fences along the highways for wildlife? Where you can buy ANYTHING in pickle flavor?
Anyway, I just finished reading The Story of Owen by E.K. Johnston, which is a modern fantasy story set in a small town in Canada. Main character Siobhan lives a typical teenage life, full of school woes, time management issues, and those random carbon-seeking dragon attacks, which many people want to capture on their iPhone. Yup, there be dragons in this Canada, and they wreak havoc in their search for carbon emissions, which they feed upon.
Siobhan meets a new student, Owen, who is the nephew of Canada's most famed and respected dragon slayer. Owen, too, will uphold the tradition of his family and spend his life slaying dragons for Canada. The two form a friendship, and then a partnership in the most time honored tradition of dragon slayers. On their shoulders, the ultimate weight of the country rests as they search for the reason behind the frequent dragon attacks.
The author incorporates dragon lore into our common lives in the most interesting of ways. Shakespeare ignored dragons, but Dracula is a direct result of dragon slayers. The hockey team known as the Detroit Redwings created their logo based on dragons. And the first employer of dragon slayers? Henry Ford. This novel can be enjoyed on so many levels, whether as a fantasy laced teen adventure, or a closer study of government programs intent on keeping citizens safe, and the cost inherent in that quest. Read it and comment!
Anyway, I just finished reading The Story of Owen by E.K. Johnston, which is a modern fantasy story set in a small town in Canada. Main character Siobhan lives a typical teenage life, full of school woes, time management issues, and those random carbon-seeking dragon attacks, which many people want to capture on their iPhone. Yup, there be dragons in this Canada, and they wreak havoc in their search for carbon emissions, which they feed upon.
Siobhan meets a new student, Owen, who is the nephew of Canada's most famed and respected dragon slayer. Owen, too, will uphold the tradition of his family and spend his life slaying dragons for Canada. The two form a friendship, and then a partnership in the most time honored tradition of dragon slayers. On their shoulders, the ultimate weight of the country rests as they search for the reason behind the frequent dragon attacks.
The author incorporates dragon lore into our common lives in the most interesting of ways. Shakespeare ignored dragons, but Dracula is a direct result of dragon slayers. The hockey team known as the Detroit Redwings created their logo based on dragons. And the first employer of dragon slayers? Henry Ford. This novel can be enjoyed on so many levels, whether as a fantasy laced teen adventure, or a closer study of government programs intent on keeping citizens safe, and the cost inherent in that quest. Read it and comment!