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To Cage a God by Elizabeth May
4.0

A lovely Russian Revolution fantasy novel with dragons, a startlingly alive and vivacious main cast, and a page-turning story! While it's hampered by a fairly two-dimensional villain coming off the worse for me recently having read the Hollow Star saga (Isidora can't hold a candle to Riadne), and an overuse of conlang terms injected into the text, the romance was beautiful - full of yearning, desire, and flashpoint personalities meeting. The Slavic skin atop the fantasy meat and bones of Tumanny felt like coming home.

If Elizabeth May writes more in this world, I'm happily picking it up!