 Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book about dragons.
The Dragon's Hoard 2, edited by Carol Hightshoe. Is it cheating on the challenge if I use an anthology where I'm one of the contributors? I really enjoyed the other 21 stories in the book, all about dragons and their treasure hoards. The stories are from the human's point of view; The Dragon's Hoard 3 has stories from the dragon's perspective. The opening tale, "this story possesses you," by Adam Strassberg, makes very effective use of second-person narration to literally put the reader in the story. Quite a few of the dragons hoard items other than gold. In "Domestication," by J.S. Rogers, the dragon collects bicycles. "The Hoarder of Songs," by Laura J. Underwood, has a nearly blind dragon obsessed with music. "Bookworms & Bookwyrms," by L.A. Knight, is about a dragon librarian. There are several comedy stories. "Whackin' Dragons," by John Lance, has an ill-advised attempt at ridding the narrator's house of a small dragon infestation. My favorite, though, is "Strange and Unusual Hoards," by Brooksie C. Fontaine, which includes a reality show about dragons who collect unlikely items. And if you like the comedy stories, my "Inside Job" reveals how the dragon got all that treasure: frivolous lawsuits.
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