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I doubt anybody will care anymore about this than they did the last one, but tonight I finally finished the second King's Quest book in the trilogy based on the Sierra King's Quest computer games from the 80s and 90s. Now, both books were written by different authors, and that's obvious in the writing alone, the second book is heavily into fairies and imps and that kind of stuff. However, even so, I have trouble condoning the inconsistencies between the two stories.
Okay, if you've played the games, you know that Prince Alexander was kidnapped as a baby and he never returned home to King Graham and Queen Valanice in the Kingdom of Daventry until he was well over 18 years old. And in the first book, Floating Castle, Alexander is the main character of the story, at home with his family, going to battle against a wizard for his father's soul. BUT, in THIS book, Alexander is still kidnapped and nowhere to be found and if the age of his twin sister Rosella is to be any indication, he would only be about 7 years old here. So naturally the protagonist of this story is his father King Graham instead, and even so it was still a very good story. The queen fairy who makes spring has been kidnapped and the result is Daventry is thrust into a severe winter with amounts of snow never seen before and unless the queen faery can be rightfully returned to the Old Woods, winter will never end and nothing will live. The men in the royal Daventry family seem to be prone to transformations by wicked creatures; in The Floating Castle, Alexander gets turned into a frog by a wicked witch, and in Kingdom of Sorrow, Graham swaps bodies with a lizard.
Overall I found the second book to be very good, and the last 100 pages or so it became impossible to put down. I do find it a shame that the series was not further continued because I would've loved to see it last around as long as the game series did, that being 8 installments. There is a third book, See No Weevil, but I think it'll be a while before I can get my hands on that one because it's almost $40, why, I don't know.
Okay, if you've played the games, you know that Prince Alexander was kidnapped as a baby and he never returned home to King Graham and Queen Valanice in the Kingdom of Daventry until he was well over 18 years old. And in the first book, Floating Castle, Alexander is the main character of the story, at home with his family, going to battle against a wizard for his father's soul. BUT, in THIS book, Alexander is still kidnapped and nowhere to be found and if the age of his twin sister Rosella is to be any indication, he would only be about 7 years old here. So naturally the protagonist of this story is his father King Graham instead, and even so it was still a very good story. The queen fairy who makes spring has been kidnapped and the result is Daventry is thrust into a severe winter with amounts of snow never seen before and unless the queen faery can be rightfully returned to the Old Woods, winter will never end and nothing will live. The men in the royal Daventry family seem to be prone to transformations by wicked creatures; in The Floating Castle, Alexander gets turned into a frog by a wicked witch, and in Kingdom of Sorrow, Graham swaps bodies with a lizard.
Overall I found the second book to be very good, and the last 100 pages or so it became impossible to put down. I do find it a shame that the series was not further continued because I would've loved to see it last around as long as the game series did, that being 8 installments. There is a third book, See No Weevil, but I think it'll be a while before I can get my hands on that one because it's almost $40, why, I don't know.
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