Seraphina – Cannonball Read 17

I know I always complain about book series that don’t have an end BUT I WANT MORE

Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman

July 26, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Travel: because I actually really liked the majority of this book where Seraphina is just traveling from one city to another, trying to do her thing Wow, people really don’t like this book. I, on the other hand, squandered a perfectly good sleep head start to the week to stay up and finish this book and was nigh inconsolable afterwards because [WHAT IS ORMA’S MIND PEARL TRIGGER???? IS IT IN THE NEXT BOOK (Tess of the Road??? I NEED TO KNOW]. So if I address the […]

“We are the farting children of Heaven, blessed be our slippery viscera”

Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman

May 17, 2021 by Ellesfena 10 Comments

Series: Tess of the Road is the first in a series, but it’s a companion series to Seraphina and Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman. I first read Seraphina in March of 2018 and Shadow Scale in June of 2018 (and reread them both in 2020). I love these books, and I’ve been putting off reading Tess of the Road both to extend the pleasure of anticipation and also out of fear that it wouldn’t measure up. What I remembered about this series prior to reading […]

Music and dragons

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

October 31, 2020 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman follows a young girl who lives for music. An excellent pick for the music square for CBR 12 Bingo. The novel is set in a fictional kingdom of Goredd where dragons and humans have found a fragile peace. The dragons in this book are scholars who love cold logic and have a hankering for math too. They can transform into a human form to take up these pursuits. A murder mystery unfolds that opens up old wounds between the two races. A […]

It’s the Messy Emotions That Lead to the Creation of Art and Beauty

June 6, 2018 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I’m very late to the game on this one – it caught my eye years ago but I kept classifying it as a “I’ll get around to it later, maybe once there are sequels” novel and it ended up very far down on the backburner. I’m not really sure why it ended up as a “I’ll get around to it” novel since dragons are right in my wheel house but there are just too many books to choose from! The novel takes place in the […]

We are Stardust, We are Golden

June 3, 2018 by Ellesfena 2 Comments

Shadow Scale is the sequel to Seraphina, a book I reviewed a few months ago, which is easily one of the most original books I’ve read in a long time. Since it’s a sequel, Shadow Scale didn’t have quite the same feeling of magic and wonder, but I loved it all the same for giving me more time in this universe with these characters. These books take place in a kingdom called Goredd, in a world where humans and dragons co-exist, mostly peacefully (at least […]

I Will Be Made a New Creature, One Bright Day

March 18, 2018 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

A few months ago, someone posted in the CBR facebook group that Seraphina was on sale for Kindle. I went and bought it simply because it was cheap and the person said it was one of their favorite books. Whoever that person was, thank you, thank you, for introducing me to this fantastic book! Seraphina takes place in Goredd, a human country in a world where dragons and humans have had a peace treaty for many years. Dragons can take human form, but they have […]

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