Back to Blog
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman5/15/2023 ![]() An exciting new series to watch." - Booklist Equal parts political thriller, murder mystery, bittersweet romance, and coming-of-age story, this is an uncommonly good fantasy. Hartman proves dragons are still fascinating in this impressive high fantasy. ![]() Seraphina's tortuous journey to self-acceptance is one readers will remember long after they've turned the final page. In her exquisitely written fantasy debut, Rachel Hartman creates a rich, complex, and utterly original world. While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect her own secret, the secret behind her musical gift, one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen's Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered - in suspiciously draconian fashion. ![]() ![]() Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. ![]() As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |