A review by effingunicorns
Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik

5.0

With another book comes yet another completely different culture, of course. The African dragons really take ancestor worship to a whole new level, although I couldn't quite decide whether it was a case of the dragons hearing so much about their supposed former lives while in the egg that they came to believe it fully or whether it was actual reincarnation (come on, in a world where a young dragon can obliterate a ship with his roar, why not?).