With a dedicated fanbase and widespread critical acclaim, Netflix's original animated series The Dragon Prince is another strong success for the premium streaming service. To help fans tide over the wait for the planned fourth season, the Wonderstorm series has teamed up with Scholastic to publish three novels expanding the high fantasy world of Xadia and its colorful characters.

Among these is The Dragon Prince: Book One - Moon, adapting the events of the first season into a prose novel written by series co-creator Aaron Ehasz and Melanie McGanney Ehasz.

In a medieval world where dragons have been seemingly eradicated for over a millennium and passed into myth, tensions between the human and elven kingdoms are at an all-time high, with war for the fate of Xadia imminent. The young elven assassin Rayla is tasked with killing the human King Harrow and his son Prince Ezran, in retaliation for destroying the last dragon egg.

Unfortunately, Rayla is discovered by Ezran and his half-brother Callum. Following the revelation that the egg was not destroyed, but is about to hatch, Rayla joins the brothers to use the egg to stop the impending war. Meanwhile, Harrow's longtime advisor and mage Viren usurps the throne with his children Claudia and Soren.

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Coming from co-creator Aaron Ehasz, this novel is completely faithful to the world of the animated series from cover-to-cover. From the setting and backstory to the characters, the source material makes a seamless transition from animation to literary prose in The Dragon Prince: Book One - Moon.

In that sense, the book serves as the perfect companion piece to the animated series, while standing on its own as a work of fiction; Ehasz presents the novel as completely accessible to those who may not have watched the Netflix show. Simultaneously, Ehasz enriches the experience of the first season for those who have seen it.

This sense of enrichment largely comes from the expansion of the original source material in a way that only prose can achieve. With the added real estate to expand and explore, the novel delves into backstory and ancillary detail absent from the first season, which underscores character motivations and individual perspectives to deepen the overall experience.

In addition to the added depth, there are sequences included in the novel that were not present in the first season of The Dragon Prince at all, further expanding the scope and stakes. These additions also potentially inform character decisions in the future of the seriesm as a sort of literary director's cut.

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Ehasz is writing for a middle-grade audience here; thus, the writing is relatively succinct and always easy to follow, even as the writers juggle the expansive cast. What makes this especially impressive is the amount of story that the novel covers in less than 300 pages, while adding new material to the mix.

Given the animated series' clear love of literary fantasy, the idea of bringing The Dragon Prince to prose is a solid idea and one that translates well to readers of all ages. Aaron and Melanie McGanney Ehasz continue to have a strong grasp on their world and characters in the new medium.The Dragon Prince: Book One - Moon is great gateway for those who missed the animated series on Netflix or those who are eager to return to the world of Xadia as the wait for Season 4 continues.

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