Seraphina by Rachel HartmanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Publication date: July 2012
Source: Netgalley
Interest: Debut
Living in a world that has an uneasy truce with a race of dragons, Seraphina is keeping a huge secret: she's half human and half dragon. The dragons are able to take human form and her father didn't know until her mother died that her mother was a dragon. Seraphina inherited her mother's musical abilites and is now a music intructor at the royal court which puts her secret in constant danger of being discovered by the wrong people. But, her unique connection to both worlds may prove to be invaluable when an assassination plot of a dragon leader is discovered.
If you can get past the fantasy aspect of this novel, it is well worth the read. At its heart, it's a story about the differences of people and whether or not those differences can be tolerated and even accepted. I could have seen this story published during the civil rights era as a thinly veiled story about race relations.
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