(Sci-Fi/Fantasy) Books We Can’t Wait to Read – Spring, 2014

by Tee Tate
The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir by Lady Trent (Natural History of Dragons)
Marie BrennanTropicSerpents
Tor Books
ISBN-10: 0765331977
March 4

Look for Sharon’s review forthcoming and check out her review of Brennan’s previous title, A Natural History of Dragons. In The Tropic of Serpents, Brennan again brilliantly details Lady Trent’s continuing adventures.

Attentive readers of Lady Trent’s earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world’s premier dragon naturalist. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career.

Three years after her fateful journeys through the forbidding mountains of Vystrana, Mrs. Camherst defies family and convention to embark on an expedition to the war-torn continent of Eriga, home of such exotic draconian species as the grass-dwelling snakes of the savannah, arboreal tree snakes, and, most elusive of all, the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics.

The expedition is not an easy one. Accompanied by both an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must brave oppressive heat, merciless fevers, palace intrigues, gossip, and other hazards in order to satisfy her boundless fascination with all things draconian, even if it means venturing deep into the forbidden jungle known as the Green Hell . . . where her courage, resourcefulness, and scientific curiosity will be tested as never before.

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Sharon Browning 7 March, 2014 - 8:00 pm

They all look SO good!

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