Unfortunately, as things seem to have gone since the start of this whole journey, that did not happen. Everyone would cheer, and I’d finally be the hero I was prophesied to become. There would be artistic arterial spray, and the disembodied head would roll down the steps of the raised dais and come to rest at the feet of my best friend. Though it didn’t feel real, as in very likely, and downright probable, until I pulled a magical sword from a bog and a beam of light shot down from the sky, anointing me with supernatural purpose.Īfter that, I kept a vision in my head about what would happen when I separated the Vile One’s head from his shoulders in the final climactic battle. I’d been envisioning this moment since after we’d had tea and he’d explained a few things and told me about the prophecy. Well, okay, not that specific second because who believes a drunken stranger with a crooked hat carrying around a humming staff? No one. I’d been envisioning what it would be like to behead the Vile One since the old wizard had shown up at my door the day after I turned seventeen and told me my destiny-that I would be the person who ended the dark shadow of evil that ruled our realm. But his attempts at wooing his friends go painfully and hilariously wrong…until he discovers that love might have been in front of him all along.
With his eighteenth birthday only three months away, and only Matt in on the secret, Arek embarks on a desperate bid to find a spouse to save his life-starting with his quest companions. Now Arek is stuck as king, a role that comes with a magical catch: choose a spouse by your eighteenth birthday, or wither away into nothing. So now that he’s finally managed to (somewhat clumsily) behead the evil king (turns out magical swords yanked from bogs don’t come pre-sharpened), he and his rag-tag group of quest companions are at a bit of a loss for what to do next.Īs a temporary safeguard, Arek’s best friend and mage, Matt, convinces him to assume the throne until the true heir can be rescued from her tower. Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this subversive, “delightfully original and whimsical” ( Kirkus Reviews) young adult fantasy about what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom and has to get married to keep it…and to stay alive.Īrek hadn’t thought much about what would happen after he completed the prophecy that said he was destined to save the Kingdom of Ere from its evil ruler.
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