A review by ufakbideneme
A Dragonbird in the Fern by Laura Rueckert

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Thanks, NetGalley and the publisher for the free e-ARC! Here comes my sincere thoughts on this book;

4,5/5
Strongly recommended if you like reading about;
Murder mysteries
Royal families
Tricky politics
Paranormal events
Language learning processes
True love


First of all, I love how our main character has difficulties with reading and learning. We need more representations of these kinds of characters who have different strengths.

Secondly, as a translator, I love reading about the language learning process, translators, lost in translation, the importance of a reliable translator, etc. So this book amazed me with how important language takes place in it.

Also, the murder mystery side of the plot was just *chef's kiss* it keeps me on the edge of my seat yet I have some issues about Scilla (aka the freaky ghost sister) but for just being in safe I'll write them under spoiler title

I think if we could read Scilla's POV and see how she becomes more and more unreasonable from her mouth it would be so much more tense and captivating. And I was expecting her to kill her murderer because she was already killed her beloved sister already yet when they found out who was the murderer she just scratched him and 'found peace' frankly it didn't sit right with me

After all, I love it so much and I'm pretty angry at myself for waiting for that much to read it!