Moniquill Blackgoose's To Shape a Dragon's Breath
This book was my JAM. It’s set in a fantasy version of our world in the 1800s, not fantastic just because there’s magic and magical science and dragons, but because the main colonizers seem to be from Norway (though everyone speaks “Anglish”—it’s one of those books where normal words are spelled slightly differently and math is called “anglereckoning” and so on, because Fantasy). The main character is an indigenous girl from a tribe that is mainly left alone by the colonizers, until she sees a dragon and finds its egg, and the baby dragon chooses to bond with her. But they haven’t had a dragon in her tribe in generations, and the only way she can learn to train it is to go to the white people dragon training school. Where obviously she has to deal with racist jerks and politics, but also makes some cool friends. I was even into the romance(s)! If I had any complaints, it’s that this book is not subtle, but I really liked it and am very eager for book two. A/A-.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released on May 9th.
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