Series
Lady Trent
Marie Brennan · 5 novels · 1 short story · 2013–2017
A Natural History of Dragons opens Marie Brennan's five-book Memoirs of Lady Trent, framed as the memoir of Isabella, Lady Trent, the world's foremost dragon naturalist looking back on the expedition to the mountains of Vystrana where she made her first major dragon discovery. The Victorian-flavored series follows her career across increasingly ambitious expeditions in the volumes that follow. It was a finalist for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Lady Trent at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s6
Shape
5 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:fantasydragonssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 83% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Reviewdarkest · calmest
- The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir by Lady Trentbrightest · most intense