I quite enjoyed this book but did find it slightly heavy on messaging about various political issues from LGBTQ to gender to patriarchy/matriarchy to environment to native rights. All of which I support but which did drag me out of the story slightly from time to time just with the frequency of their introduction and/or discussion.

Still well worth a read though. Sort of in the vein of a Harry Potter fantasy mixed with a story of resistance to cultural assimilation. And with interesting dragons and quite well done characters.