Dragon of the Lost Sea, Laurence Yep (365 Books, Day 20)

I've been familiar with Laurence Yep's rich and interesting realistic novels since I was very young, but for some reason I never came across any of his fantasy. In fact, I didn't know of its existence until I saw it mentioned on 50books_poc. At Wiscon, I scored an ARC of City of Fire, the first of his current fantasy series; I note that the book came out in early August, and I recommend it highly. It made me hunt down Dragon of the Lost Sea.

I enjoyed it. I'd have fallen head over heels for it at ten. There's a dragon princess, who is very prickly; there's a human boy, who is just as stubborn back. There's an ocean compressed into a little blue pebble. There's Monkey, who is just as Monkey usually is. There's an awareness that villainy is never one-dimensional.

City of Fire, which features equally interesting characters and worldbuilding so conceptually fascinating to me that I wouldn't have cared if there hadn't been any characters, is more the sort of book I read nowadays, but I read Dragon of the Lost Sea remembering the ten-year-old I was, and I will read the others in the series.

Assuming I can ever find them. I don't know what it is with the library systems I've run into about these. Kind of odd.

Dragon of the Lost Sea, Laurence Yep (365 Books, Day 20)

I've been familiar with Laurence Yep's rich and interesting realistic novels since I was very young, but for some reason I never came across any of his fantasy. In fact, I didn't know of its existence until I saw it mentioned on 50books_poc. At Wiscon, I scored an ARC of City of Fire, the first of his current fantasy series; I note that the book came out in early August, and I recommend it highly. It made me hunt down Dragon of the Lost Sea.

I enjoyed it. I'd have fallen head over heels for it at ten. There's a dragon princess, who is very prickly; there's a human boy, who is just as stubborn back. There's an ocean compressed into a little blue pebble. There's Monkey, who is just as Monkey usually is. There's an awareness that villainy is never one-dimensional.

City of Fire, which features equally interesting characters and worldbuilding so conceptually fascinating to me that I wouldn't have cared if there hadn't been any characters, is more the sort of book I read nowadays, but I read Dragon of the Lost Sea remembering the ten-year-old I was, and I will read the others in the series.

Assuming I can ever find them. I don't know what it is with the library systems I've run into about these. Kind of odd.

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