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A review by frenchleigh
To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
4.0
*edited April 2024 after realizing I’d never heard of a flat arc before and contemplating what it would look like to do something like that well.
I loved the “two eyed seeing” that the protagonist uses to learn magic/world-shaping while at an English school. I really loved the normalised (but realistic) depiction of an autistic side character who showed the protagonist the ropes. Alas, the pace is slow without cause and the main themes are redundant. The contrasting worldviews of the Indigenous and settler colonial states are awkwardly inserted imo. But the main reason it’s not 4 stars is that the narration is too distant for my tastes and that makes it harder to invest in the MC.
I loved the “two eyed seeing” that the protagonist uses to learn magic/world-shaping while at an English school. I really loved the normalised (but realistic) depiction of an autistic side character who showed the protagonist the ropes. Alas, the pace is slow without cause and the main themes are redundant. The contrasting worldviews of the Indigenous and settler colonial states are awkwardly inserted imo. But the main reason it’s not 4 stars is that the narration is too distant for my tastes and that makes it harder to invest in the MC.