"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that's not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he's still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of use every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we're grateful, but not that grateful."
The premise itself is quite overdone---Medieval girl-next-door discovers there's more to The Scary Man (and herself)---than meets the eye. The Final Battle is a bit of a twist on the YA romantasy genre but it's a slow-moving book with okay prose, little originality, and a very simple, naive tone.
