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A review by hagbard_celine
League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
3.0
An ok and basically satisfying ending.
Having reached the end of this series, I find myself simultaneously impressed by the author's comprehensive alternative history and disappointed by its lack of radicalism. This is a fundamentally *liberal* book, concerned with bourgeois rights and dignities (and utterly preoccupied by honor), and the anti-colonialism appears only as a happy accident, it seems. The grand ideological triumph of the series is for British dragons to become thoroughly middle class and respectable parliamentarians. Oh well. It is an underwhelming (if practical) vision of liberation.
Having reached the end of this series, I find myself simultaneously impressed by the author's comprehensive alternative history and disappointed by its lack of radicalism. This is a fundamentally *liberal* book, concerned with bourgeois rights and dignities (and utterly preoccupied by honor), and the anti-colonialism appears only as a happy accident, it seems. The grand ideological triumph of the series is for British dragons to become thoroughly middle class and respectable parliamentarians. Oh well. It is an underwhelming (if practical) vision of liberation.