![]() ![]() Seraphina’s mind, too, seems to conspire against her, when grotesques from her childhood visions begin to appear at court. ![]() As allegiances shift, it becomes more difficult to sort friend from foe, including her emotionally detached uncle her enigmatic father and her giddy music student, the teenaged Princess Glisselda. When hostilities heat up, Seraphina, 16, a gifted music teacher, finds herself swept into political intrigue. In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, an uneasy truce exists between people and highly intelligent dragons that can assume human shape. Can the author infuse this tired trope with fresh blood, or is it doomed to flame out in blatant cliche? Happily, Rachel Hartman, with her richly imagined reptile and human characters, proves more than equal to the task. ![]() Nothing strikes dread in a reviewer’s heart like a dragon on a book cover. ![]()
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