[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: Cecilia, an adopted daughter of the Galache family who was neither a knight nor recognized as a mage, nevertheless studied at the country's only educational institution for knights, the Academy of the Forged Blade, and aspired to become a knight of the King's Lordship. She was to graduate from the academy, become engaged to her childhood sweetheart, and be granted a reprieve from her hometown for the rest of her life, a foreordaine...
It's a fantasy story along the lines of what you might expect to find if you walked into any bookshop and browsed the fantasy section - you've got a girl who wants to be a knight, a magic school, dragons (obviously), a feuding and scheming monarchy, magical bloodlines..
It also has one of the flaws of many of these fantasy books: A very long, slow start where lots of information is dumped on the reader. It's even more egregious than usual, because it both just does a big infodump, and then has