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Turning Darkness into Light
3/5. Further adventures in this secondary world fantasy about the rediscovery of dragons, long thought extinct. The granddaughter of the heroine of the previous books is a translator hired to translate newly discovered tablets that tell an origin story about dragons and humans, but political schemes are afoot.
This was pleasant and, if you care about linguistics more than I do, you will enjoy the extended translation passages complete with footnotes where the translators variously puzzle, squabble, and explicate. Mostly, though, I was distracted by the heroine’s dreadful lingering romantic longing for a man who is terrible and treated her terribly. Girl. Girl. I stopped having any interest in watching someone go down that road when I was maybe twenty-five. Luckily, the book does at least know he’s terrible, so there’s that.
A light book, even as it is about weighty things – great conflict, and how our beginnings and our stories shape the present.
3/5. Further adventures in this secondary world fantasy about the rediscovery of dragons, long thought extinct. The granddaughter of the heroine of the previous books is a translator hired to translate newly discovered tablets that tell an origin story about dragons and humans, but political schemes are afoot.
This was pleasant and, if you care about linguistics more than I do, you will enjoy the extended translation passages complete with footnotes where the translators variously puzzle, squabble, and explicate. Mostly, though, I was distracted by the heroine’s dreadful lingering romantic longing for a man who is terrible and treated her terribly. Girl. Girl. I stopped having any interest in watching someone go down that road when I was maybe twenty-five. Luckily, the book does at least know he’s terrible, so there’s that.
A light book, even as it is about weighty things – great conflict, and how our beginnings and our stories shape the present.