Book Review: Driftwood, Marie Brennan Fantasy: Driftwood, Marie Brennan Where do worlds go to die? The answer is Driftwood, a place where the apocalypse is ongoing. Some worlds come in fairly intact, gradually shrinking into oblivion. Others come in with as few as two survivors, a hopeless remnant bearing witness to a lost […]
Book Review: Turning Darkness into Light, Marie Brennan Fantasy: Turning Darkness into Light, Marie Brennan Her grandmother is the renowned naturalist and explorer Lady Trent. Her grandfather, a famous linguist and philologist. Her father an oceanographer, her mother an astronomer. Audrey Camherst has a lot of family history to live up to. Stung by […]
Book Review: Within the Sanctuary of Wings, The Lady Trent Memoirs Book 5, Marie Brennan Fantasy: Within the Sanctuary of Wings, The Lady Trent Memoirs Book 5, Marie Brennan Isabella Camherst, aka Lady Trent, has traveled from the mountains to the desert and across the ocean to study dragons. Her discoveries, along with her colleague and friend […]
Book Review: In the Labyrinth of Drakes, Lady Trent Memoirs Book 4, Marie Brennan Fantasy: In the Labyrinth of Drakes, Lady Trent Memoirs Book 4, Marie Brennan Lady Trent’s previous three memoirs have told the story of how she began studying dragons, her marriage to Jacob Camherst, and her trip to Eriga and her voyage on […]
Book Review: The Tropic of Serpents, Book 2 of the Memoirs of Lady Trent, Marie Brennan Fantasy: The Tropic of Serpents, Marie Brennan Isabella Camherst can face dragons. She has met with heads of state, with scientists from around the world. She survived the cold steppes and the machinations of local warlords, and […]
Book Review: Voyage of the Basilisk, The Lady Trent Memoirs Book 3, Marie Brennan Fantasy: Voyage of the Basilisk, Marie Brennan The Memoirs of Lady Trent is a fantasy series that grows more delightful the further you get into it. In Voyage of the Basilisk, the third of the series, Isabella Camherst sets sail […]
Book Review: A Natural History of Dragons, The Lady Trent Memoirs Book 1, Marie Brennan Fantasy: A Natural History of Dragons, Marie Brennan Lady Trent is a naturalist, an expert in dragons. For a woman to accomplish this in a Victorian-type society is no small accomplishment. It is little wonder, then, that her autobiography would […]
