My mom saw this book in the library and took it home for me. The funny thing about this was that my boyfriend and I had just seen the movie a few days before she brought it to me. My mom didn’t know this, so this was quite a coincidence. 

This book is about a girl named Elodie. Her family exchanges her hand in marriage for wealth to help their people survive. Their home country struggles to get through the winters, and even the summers are brutal because of the hot and dry climate. Elodie doesn’t know that the kingdom will sacrifice her to a dragon, and she isn’t the first one. 

“King Rodrick sat on the ground behind a leather armchair, arms wrapped around his knees, head buried under a bearskin, rocking back and forth, back and forth, crying softly.”

Evelyn Skye, Damsel

Most of the book is about Elodie and the Dragon. We learn a lot about her and even get some flashes of the girls sacrificed before Elodie. I want to read a book from Henry’s perspective, the crown prince who marries Elodie. I think that would be very interesting. 

“Life is not as simple as good and evil. It is mostly lived in the pages in between.”

Evelyn Skye, Damsel

I am glad my mom took this book home because I liked it more than the movie. I needed a lot of vital information to enjoy the story, but that information wasn’t in the movie, and the ending was much better than the ending in the movie. I found the ending a bit anticlimactic in the movie, but the book made up for it. 

This book was easy and quick to read. I read most of it right before bed, which meant that one night, I even dreamed about the dragon. 

It isn’t the best book, but it was still enjoyable so that I will give it 3 stars.