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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
by Alison Goodman
this is a solid, straightforward fantasy book with dragons and court dynamic shenanigans.
credit where credit is due:
-girls with swords pretending to be boys with swords is totally a genre I dig into, and a rec based on that is why I picked this book up in the first place!
-Lady Dela is a very important actor in the plot and also a trans character and her love story with her bodyguard is Great
-fantasy China/Japan is at least not fantasy Europe, and, with the #I'mWhite disclaimer, it ...seemed to be pretty respectful, culturally?
-I /am/ planning on reading the next one, if nothing magnificent forestalls me.
-Eon is physically disabled with a bad hip wound! and that's throughout the whole book, and it comes into consideration often.
-the whole book is kind to the physically disabled, actually.
uncredit:
-it is Eon and not like, necessarily the author's opinions, but we sure do spend a lot of time lingering on how Lady Dela sometimes has "not a woman's strength" "a man's whatever." Like, credit that she is never really actually misgendered, and she gets access to things like a spot in the harem (a house not like. sexual use.) but her uneasy status IS commented on, and I'm not sure if I think it's "realistic" or just irritating.
-psychic and physical rape threats! hahaha.
-other people have mentioned that Eon is a little slow on the uptake and they aren't wrong. we get there eventually, though!
so, overall: decent! if you want something long and action-y, with dragons and power and some basic gender stuff, it's definitely a book to read.
credit where credit is due:
-girls with swords pretending to be boys with swords is totally a genre I dig into, and a rec based on that is why I picked this book up in the first place!
-Lady Dela is a very important actor in the plot and also a trans character and her love story with her bodyguard is Great
-fantasy China/Japan is at least not fantasy Europe, and, with the #I'mWhite disclaimer, it ...seemed to be pretty respectful, culturally?
-I /am/ planning on reading the next one, if nothing magnificent forestalls me.
-Eon is physically disabled with a bad hip wound! and that's throughout the whole book, and it comes into consideration often.
-the whole book is kind to the physically disabled, actually.
uncredit:
-it is Eon and not like, necessarily the author's opinions, but we sure do spend a lot of time lingering on how Lady Dela sometimes has "not a woman's strength" "a man's whatever." Like, credit that she is never really actually misgendered, and she gets access to things like a spot in the harem (a house not like. sexual use.) but her uneasy status IS commented on, and I'm not sure if I think it's "realistic" or just irritating.
-psychic and physical rape threats! hahaha.
-other people have mentioned that Eon is a little slow on the uptake and they aren't wrong. we get there eventually, though!
Spoiler
-Eon IS magically healed of her bad hip via dragon stuff at the end of the book.so, overall: decent! if you want something long and action-y, with dragons and power and some basic gender stuff, it's definitely a book to read.