from the University of Minnesota in 1977. She finished it five years later and started her second book at once, having become permanently hooked on writing by this time. She began work on her first novel, Shadow Magic, just after graduating from college in 1974. She attended Carleton College in Minnesota, where she majored in Biology and managed to avoid taking any English courses at all. Is it a grimmer scenario the older you get? Hell yes.Patricia Collins Wrede was born in Chicago, Illinois and is the eldest of five children. It’s also just kind of depressing that Mendenbar and Cimerone only got to be happily married for a year before they were then separated for FIFTEEN YEARS where she had to be a single mom.ĭoes it ruin an otherwise great series? No. I love the easy camaraderie of the previous book and our gang’s dynamics. Mainly because Daystar is meeting all our favorites for the first time and doesn’t know what’s going on. The final book in the series follows the son as he accomplishes this quest and is my least favorite book. This is my favorite book, but I have always hated the ending. The book ends with Cimerone’s husband trapped in stasis, her about to give birth and raise her son alone, in hiding, and needing to wait until her son is old enough to free his dad.

This is easily the grimmest of the books in the series as well. Once again, the wizards are up to mischief, and once again our group of faves bands together to go on a journey and stop them. Her descriptions of their moods, behaviors, and internal thoughts are spot on). It’s told entirely from Morwen the witch’s perspective and that means you get to hear the running commentary from her 9 cats as well. This is my favorite on of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles.

With a little help from Kazul the dragon king, Morwen the witch, Telemain the magician, two cats, and a blue, flying donkey-rabbit named - what else? - Killer, Cimorene might just be able to stop them.Īnd some people think that being a queen is easy. (Sort of.) They’ve figured out a way to take over the forest once and for all … and what they have planned isn’t pretty. Those wizards are back - and they’ve become very smart.

Princess Cimorene is now Queen Cimorene … and she’s faced with her first queenly crisis - the Enchanted Forest is threatened with complete destruction!

A Princess’s work is never done–not even when she becomes a queen!

Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede