Book: A natural history of dragons
Nov. 14th, 2013 10:12 amAuthor: Marie Brennan (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Details: (c) 2013 Bryn Neuenschwander; Pub Tor 2013; ISBN 978-0-7653-3196-0
Verdict: A natural history of dragons is delightful fluff.
Reasons for reading it: I've enjoyedswan_tower's acerbic comments about bad historical fantasy, so I was intrigued to find out whether she can do it better. I liked the premise of a lady explorer investigating dragons. And then several people mentioned it in rachelmanija's post looking for genre novels with major Jewish characters (a discussion I intend to respond to properly), on the grounds that the setting is an alt history where Judaism is the major European religion. And I wanted something relatively light and pleasant to read after scaring myself with Ambient, so it seemed a good time to pick up from my to-read pile a book about a Jewish lady explorer who meets dragons.
How it came into my hands:jack lent it to me.
( detailed review )
Overall I found aNHoD a pleasant read, but a bit on the frothy side.
swan_tower)Details: (c) 2013 Bryn Neuenschwander; Pub Tor 2013; ISBN 978-0-7653-3196-0
Verdict: A natural history of dragons is delightful fluff.
Reasons for reading it: I've enjoyed
swan_tower's acerbic comments about bad historical fantasy, so I was intrigued to find out whether she can do it better. I liked the premise of a lady explorer investigating dragons. And then several people mentioned it in rachelmanija's post looking for genre novels with major Jewish characters (a discussion I intend to respond to properly), on the grounds that the setting is an alt history where Judaism is the major European religion. And I wanted something relatively light and pleasant to read after scaring myself with Ambient, so it seemed a good time to pick up from my to-read pile a book about a Jewish lady explorer who meets dragons. How it came into my hands:
jack lent it to me.( detailed review )
Overall I found aNHoD a pleasant read, but a bit on the frothy side.
