Not quite halfway done, but this is as good a place to stop and write as any.
The book's on a higher level than I originally expected it to be. I figured it for an older juvenile kind of thing, but this is definitely young adult.
I'm waiting with bated breath the find out more about how Drew the peasant's son is actually the son of the old dead Werelion king Werger. I did figure, ever since the very beginning when the author described how very different the 'twins' Drew and Trent were, that Drew didn't actually belong to the family. But a lost prince of some kind was definitely not where I thought this was going.
On a side note, while writing this I had to look up whether it was correctly baited or bated breath, and discovered this neat little poem, entitled Cruel Clever Cat, making a joke out of the wrong but very common use of baited:
Sally, having swallowed cheese,
Directs down holes the scented breeze,
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.
Bloody, but somehow funny at the same time. Odd how that works, isn't it?
Will Drew have to leave Hector behind? That seems likely at this point, but it would be very much in Hector's nature for him to insist on coming along with Drew to wherever it is he's going to end up, since Hector now has to going into hiding, or more like self-imposed exile anyway- his family's safety depends on the king believing that Hector was killed in the ambush.
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