Review copy provided by the publisher. Also I know both the\nauthors socially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you want a novella about the Russian Revolution in which\nTrotsky raises dragons? Because that’s what this is. The POV rotates quite a\nbit, so it’s not only<\/em> Trotsky raising\ndragons, there are also sections on the Tsarina Alexandra’s views on dragons,\nRasputin’s views on dragons, etc. Well, and some other things that aren’t\ndragons. There’s quite a lot of genuine history (fictionalized enough to\nprovide dialog, inner thoughts, etc.) of the last days of the tsar’s empire and\nthe beginning of the Russian Revolution–I was actually surprised at how\nclosely this hewed to the reality of the world we live in, considering:\ndragons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. The Russian Revolution and\nits main figures had enough weirdness for any speculative writer. In that\ncontext the dragons almost feel like the most normal thing, which may well have\nbeen the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In any case: if you’re like me, you heard the premise and\nmade up your mind that you wanted it right away, and that is a very sensible\nthing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Review copy provided by the publisher. Also I know both the authors socially. Do you want a novella about the Russian Revolution in which Trotsky raises dragons? Because that’s what this is. The POV rotates quite a bit, so it’s not only Trotsky raising dragons, there are also sections on the Tsarina Alexandra’s views on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}