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The Iron Dragon’s Daughter

Jane is a changeling, a human brought over to fairyland. Dragons, built from iron, are weapons of war and iron is deadly to those without human blood. But Jane is not destined to be a dragon pilot; she’s doomed to be a brood mare for half-elf pilots. In the meantime she works in the dragon factory. She encounters a dragon and together the two plot to escape.

The fairyland Jane finds herself in is a mirror of the earth, in particular America. She goes to school and is aiming to get a scholarship to University to study alchemy. There’s a mall, and going there distorts time. A local celebrity is Gwen who is in the magazines and on TV, because she will be the Wicker Queen, destined to be burned in a cage. True names are important, but Jane, being mortal, doesn’t have one. But she encounters people with the same true names again and again.

And each time she betrays them in favour of her own survival or benefit.

The dragon knows this. The dragon wants to end this cycle. They exist at the whim of the Goddess who the dragon does not believe in.

A novel of cosmic good and evil that almost gets passed by in the extraordinary world that is ours extended to fairyland. Jane, who does not, cannot fit in there, tries to and at every turn has to become as terrible and glorious as the powers that try to find or use her.

Read This: An extraordinary fantasy novel of dragons and fate and fighting against destiny
Don’t Read This: Jane dives into some dark parts of life and turns them to her advantage no matter who gets hurt