I've always thought Sophocles's play "Oedipus Rex" was the best mystery ever written. It has drama, of course, and a tightly-crafted plot that is mesmerizing, breath-taking. But in thinking about the play, I find that the plot isn't so much an ingenious jigsaw puzzle as it is a story that grows out of the play's characters -- Oedipus, Jocasta and all of the characters involved in Sophocles's tragedy. One of the things I enjoyed most about the story in Jordan Bernal's "Reluctant Paladin" is that it develops from the story's characters, the young boys Niall and Thorin, Niall's grandfather, and Grayson, a young dragon wise beyond its years. The story has drama/conflict, and … grows from the wonderful, memorable characters Bernal has created."—Don Walters on Amazon
