About The Story
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Of Kings and Monsters
When a monster decides to spare the life of a child, he changes the fate of kingdoms, curtails an expanding empire, restores a lost royal dynasty, and most especially, alters his own life forever.
Ja’kh’redd, a monstrous Vidos, was out hunting when he came across an orphaned human child amidst the ruins of a recently destroyed caravan. Taking pity on the ‘human cub’ he saved her, attempting to return her to humankind to grow up among her own.
A decade and a half later, Ja’kh’redd would come across the same human cub once more, this time grown to adulthood… and on death’s door. Rescuing her a second time from a fatal wound begins a journey that will take the humble Vidos from the life of a simple hunter to the halls of ancient Kings, the feasting table of conquerors, and into a life he never could have imagined.
With a strange but elemental love story as its backbone, Kings and Monsters is ultimately a story about humanity, compassion, and what makes a soul noble… and it isn’t the color of the skin, or whether or not there are horns.
Development
The story was written over the span of several years. It began as a sort of fairy tale, a lost child found by a frightening carnivorous monster-like creature who was, nevertheless, more humane than any of the human beings the girl would meet in her various travels.
Once the story progressed beyond the initial love story, it quickly grew into something more grandiose, especially when Sarai’s lost history begins to come into the picture. Who she is and what she must do then begins to interfere in the love story itself, which creates dramatic tension and suspense.
The finalé however is Sarai’s return to the land of her birth, Sabatton. There she will come face to face with humans who are more bestial than the beast she fell in love with, throwing up a sharp contrast between what it means to be human and the acts of a monster.
Kings and Monsters is a fairy-tale sideways; it isn’t quite what you expect, and there is always a new twist to keep things interesting. Don’t assume you know how it’s going to end, either; humor is liberally used not just in the storytelling, but also in the mechanics of the plot itself. It is sure to be a favorite read for a lot of people.
Rated PG-13 due to some suggestive scenes.