Back to Blog
A natural history of dragons series6/5/2023 ![]() Agent: Rachel Vater, Folio Literary Management. Fans of fantasy, science, and history will adore this rich and absorbing tale of discovery. Brennan’s world-building is wonderfully subtle, rendering a familiar land alien with casual details. Isabella’s life is genuinely complicated by her scientific leanings, yet she perseveres with perfectly period-accurate spirit and awareness of the risks and costs. Brennan’s stand-alone novel (unrelated to her Onyx Court series), written as Isabella’s memoir of her youthful adventures, and beautifully illustrated by Todd Lockwood, is saturated with the joy and urgency of discovery and scientific curiosity. ![]() ![]() Along the way, Isabella solves a mystery and proves her worth as a naturalist. Instead she marries a man who shares her passion for natural history and convinces him to let her join his expedition to see the wild dragons of Vystrana. ![]() Isabella has been obsessed with studying dragons since childhood, but a formal scientific career is off limits to a woman. Isabella, Lady Trent, is a naturalist and adventurer in a country that more or less resembles 19th-century England, yet fantastical creatures roam, Judaism appears to be the dominant religion, and Europe once had an ancient Egypt-like civilization. When Lord Gleinleigh recruits Audrey to decipher a series of ancient tablets holding the secrets of the ancient Draconean civilization, she has no idea that her research will plunge her into an intricate conspiracy, one meant to incite rebellion and invoke war. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |