The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
331 pages
Published 2014
Read from June 23 to June 25
Rating: ★★★ out of 5
Two books in, the relative novelty of Lady Trent and her world is not as fresh. Brennan's narrative keeps chuffing away like the determinedly retro adventure engine it is, propelling mild amounts of entertainment but stopping short of anything surprising or really new. (Well, one of the characters is specifically revealed to be asexual, which is still pretty rare in genre fiction, so I'll give Brennan that point.) This book wasn't worse than A Natural History of Dragons, but as it was more of the same, it began to bore me toward the middle. Perhaps because I'm reading it so soon after the first book. This series might be best read as it's released, rather than marathoning it in one go.
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