QUICK TAKE: BLUE MOON RISING, BY SIMON GREEN

ANOTHER series by Simon Green is this typical fantasy world where a prince must slay a dragon and rescue a princess, with a twist. The prince, a second son, is sent off on his quest in the hope that it will kill him and remove him as a rival to his brother. And the gentle dragon wants nothing so much as getting the the princess, who's a terror and dangerous with a sword, taken off his hands. But there are other monsters to compensate, primarily the demons of the DARKWOOD, who seek to control the prince's Forest Land.