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The Mountain Crown
The Mountain Crown | Karin Lowachee
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An epic dragon-rider quest where Empress of Salt and Fortune meets Temeraire Mka must capture a king dragon, or die trying. War between the island states of Kattaka and Mazemoor has left no one unscathed. Mkas nomadic people, the BaSuon, were driven from their homeland by the Kattakans. Those who remained were forced to live under the Kattakan yoke, to serve their greed for gold alongside the dragons with whom the BaSuon share an empathic connection. A decade later and under a fragile truce, Mka returns home from her exile for an ancient, necessary rite: gathering a king dragon of the Crown Mountains to maintain balance in the wild country. But Mkas act of compassion toward an imprisoned dragon and Lilley, a Kattakan veteran of the war, soon draws the ire of the imperialistic authorities. They order the unwelcome addition of an enigmatic BaSuon traitor named Raka to accompany Mka and Lilley to the mountains. The journey is filled with dangers both within and without. As conflict threatens to reignite, the survival of the BaSuon people, their dragons, and the land itself will depend on the decisions defiant or compliant that Mka and her companions choose to make. But not even Mka, kin to the great dragons of the North, can anticipate the depth of the consequences to her world.
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THE MOUNTAIN CROWN strikes the perfect balance between subtle and direct. A lot goes unvoiced, but never unsaid, and while there may be a few easy answers, there are no easy solutions. Lowachee digs into how the trauma her characters endure impacts everything about how they see the world and negotiate their place in it. The more I think about it, the more I like it.

Highly recommended, especially if you want new angles to human-dragon bonds.

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The Mountain Crown | Karin Lowachee
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I‘m still in a major fantasy mood, and I couldn‘t resist starting THE MOUNTAIN CROWN while I cooked and ate my fake shakshuka. It‘s exactly what I feel like: layered and immersive, with strong worldbuilding and a big anticolonial stance. I‘m gonna enjoy this.