As much as I enjoyed the first book in the series, I had trouble immersing myself in this one and several times have started it only to put it aside to pick up again another day. I'd still highly recommend The Banished Craft and the layered world-building with all the hidden details of it and I hope to finish The Fettered Flame sometime too, as I'm still both interested and invested in this series.

This is an interesting book, dealing with different kingdoms throughout the world that they're on. Each of the different areas is called something different from Oceanland to Caveland for example. I think my favorite character of the book is the Grand Dame. She was not at all what I expected. I loved her Moxy! Watching the play with gender identity, race identity (human vs. dragon), war (human vs. human), food choices (vegan vs. carnivore) makes it all very interesting. It was a lot of fun to read. This is the second book in the series and the first book I have read by this Author. I look forward to more in the future. It was full of unexpected surprises and was a fun read for me.

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I admit I did not realize at first that this was book 2 of an on going series. I would definitely advise you to read book 1 first. It definitely is not a stand alone book. So I stopped and read number 1 and it all fell into place. I'll admit I loved the dragons.


The author covers many social issues especially those relating to LGBT. The book is very intense and at times hard to keep up. But perseverance is rewarded with an excellent story. It's really well written.


I gave it four stars instead of five because it so intense and took a lot of reading and at times rereading. The author has an amazing imagination. Actually I would very much like to get to know this author better. Although the story is good and very interesting I found it slow going. Best way to describe it is a lot of words. But then maybe that was part of this world.


Would I recommend it? Yes I would but read book 1 first. This one will then flow easier. Enjoy.

*ARC provided by publisher via NetGalley*

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