A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1) in Do Better: SFF without Sexual Violence

Jun 12, 2021 Cat rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-at-2021, own-in-english, overdrive, favourite, audiobook

Oh I wasn't expecting that. I Love Lady Trent tho ♡ ...more

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Sep 04, 2020 ♥Xeni♥ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, dragon, ebook, historical, 2020-books-read, bingo-20-21

Normally it has all the things that appeal to me: exploration, science, women being bad-ass, the Victorian-esque time period, and even dragons! and yet somehow this book managed to make dragons very boring. Also so many of them were killed! (Luckily Marie Brennan mentioned if this was IRL she would not kill them). Even the bits of magic that do exist (like the dragon breath) seem sapped of all wonder.

I was a lot more intrigued when some magic came up - oh, cool a giant magical dragon is stalkin ...more

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Jan 26, 2022 Bethany rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction-fantasy, ppl

This was cute, I enjoyed the lead character and I thought it was interesting that it was laid out like a memoir.
Found on a list of SFF books that do not feature sexual violence against women.
More of that, please :)

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Apr 28, 2016 Becca rated it really liked it

Took me a while to get into it, but then I really enjoyed it.

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Apr 03, 2022 Kate Wutz rated it really liked it

Dragons tend to have a few distinct characteristics in fantasy fiction. First, they talk; two, they allow humans to ride them; and three, they are invariably enormous, there being very little relative difference among the types, if there are subtypes of dragon.

Marie Brennan’s dragons share none of these characteristics, and that’s what makes them so magnificent.

Full review up at Literary Transgressions! https://literarytransgressions.wordpr... ...more

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Jul 01, 2013 xenu01 rated it it was amazing

I adored this book and have continued to love this series. It is so creative, and the characters are well-drawn. Also, it meets the at the perfect juncture of science, anthropology, travel memoir and fantasy.

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