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In the Vanishers' Palace by Aliette de Bodard
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Sometimes I think I never again want to read books with dragons, but I refuse to let that one popular, overhyped, overrated, and stupid fantasy romance series ruin dragons for me.

Anyway this is an interesting sapphic reimagining of Beauty and the Beast set in a Vietnamese-inspired world. One of the women is a scholar who gets sold to a dragon. The romance was too insta-love for me but a lot of readers enjoy that so whatever. I really liked the writing even if at times I had to reread a passage or an entire paragraph. This is my second time reading a book from this author, and I'm not sure I want to read more from her.