Zivan reviewed The tropic of serpents by Marie Brennan
"Attentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar …
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4 stars
The fun of colonial exploration and discovery with a twist.
Lady Trent, is well, a lady naturalist in an alternate British Empire. She stands for everything that the actual, racist, colonialist and misogynist empire stood for so we get all the adventure without all the baggage.
Ah, and there are actual dragons, natural ones mixed with the more ordinary fauna.