A review by inkfire
In the Labyrinth of Drakes by Marie Brennan

5.0

There are passages in this book that make me squeal in happiness.

Sometimes I imagine there's a clerk sitting behind a desk situated between the brain and the mouth, whose job it is to examine utterances, and either stamp them with approval or send them back for reconsideration. If there is such a clerk, mine must be very harried and overworked, and sometimes he just lays his head on the desk in despair and lets things pass without a second glance.

This, among others, keeps dragging me back to read and reread the whole series.