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addisondegginger 's review for:
Seraphina
by Rachel Hartman
Why I chose this book: I’ll be honest, I picked up this book back in 2012 when it originally came out and could not finish it. I made it thirty pages in and was overwhelmed. While I am slowly learning to love the fantasy genre, I still struggle with books that contain peculiar names, worlds, words, languages, etc., due to my dyslexia. Let me just tell you, this book is a dyslexic’s nightmare. Despite this, I noticed that this book kept getting awards and solid reviews. So at the beginning of this year I picked up Seraphina on audiobook and was pleasantly surprised.
4 Things You Need to Know:
1. DRAGONS. These are not just any normal, run of the mill dragons. These are dynamic, exciting, emotionless, shapeshifting, completely logical dragons. What I loved was that Hartman wasn’t afraid to build a world where dragons were more evolved than humans, and in some respects even more powerful. Because of this, there is a theme of racism that is prominent among the humans, creating a dragons vs. humans political environment that is intense and exciting.
4 Things You Need to Know:
1. DRAGONS. These are not just any normal, run of the mill dragons. These are dynamic, exciting, emotionless, shapeshifting, completely logical dragons. What I loved was that Hartman wasn’t afraid to build a world where dragons were more evolved than humans, and in some respects even more powerful. Because of this, there is a theme of racism that is prominent among the humans, creating a dragons vs. humans political environment that is intense and exciting.