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Isabella wants to study nature, but specifically she wants to study dragons. But our lovely main character, Isabella, doesn’t want that.

This society forces expectations onto women that we are familiar with from that era – marry, have children, look after the house, be a lady. The world in this series is a world almost exactly like ours, with a lot of Victorian society being exactly as we know it to be from the history books. This series if low fantasy at its finest, incorporating elements of Victoriana society with magic. Low fantasy is fantasy that takes place in our world, such as the Harry Potter series. High fantasy is Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, fantasy that takes place in a world that exists outside of ours, such as Middlearth or the Seven Kingdoms. For those of you not privy to the lingo, there are two kinds of fantasy – low and high.

This book is one of the best examples of low fantasy I’ve ever seen. This book is the first from those that I bought.

I bought a bunch of books that came first in a trilogy or series and decided to see if I wanted to continue the series. This is the first in a series of books I’ve read that are part of a series.