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that s not this series maybe it will be in the future if there are any more books in the series after these two but that s not where it is now i very much liked ileth she s determined in a way fantasy readers and maybe even young adult fantasy readers don t often see she s not determined in a stubborn way she s determined in a i will find a way to make this work even if it s not how i dreamed or imagined way like nothing works for her she s not special in any way no special powers no secret finances no secret family lines she s got absolutely nothing and no one there wants her there she has no real friends no possessions and no skills but she tries anyway she keeps going anyway she does the best she can anyway the serpentine is dirty and messy and busy but still she keeps going at the same time though she s also absolutely passive with no actual ambition she doesn t take action on her own nor does she seek out opportunities to help her situation she allows everyone to influence her and she s a total pushover which goes maybe a little bit against her characterization as being extremely determined she agrees to go on a lengthy mission to function as a prisoner because her and the other girl they sent were the most expendable they were both expendable because they didn t come from rich and socially influentional families and because the even more misogynistic galantine culture wouldn t hurt girls the really really really hard part about this series for me is the blatant misogyny and the distinct lack of compassion by anyone in this entire series we meet ileth as a young girl of seven who meets a dragon argath and his dragon rider annis this is her first experience of women being something other than a wife maid or prostitute in ileth s experience this moment gives ileth her dream of creating her own life as a dragoneer annis is a significant contributor in the second book as well because it s annis strategy to remove the rari pirates from the vale republic s shores though annis is killed in battle before ileth gets to the academy and a very old frail male takes the credit in the papers at the end of the book for annis strategy during ileth s time at the serpentine everyone makes fun of ileth s stutter except the master of novices caseen and an elderly dragon everyone just calls lodger the most common insults involve mentioning how she must be broken because her mother was someone who was free with her sex or because of her mother s sins or some other such nonsense everyone also makes special effort just to be mean and make comments along the lines of how she ll never get married because no husband would ever suffer through her talking but just because they make fun of her stutter doesn t mean they can t objectify a fourteen year old girl who looks like she s twelve an older boy convinces her to attend an after hours against the rules party by telling her that the girl she looks up to galia will be there and ileth is desperate for a friend or mentor someone she can learn from without being worried about the social implications but drunk and high galia is busy having intimate relationships with drunk and high boys and then the boy who brought ileth to this party sexually assaults her but is stopped before things get too bad by one of her peers nothing happens to the older boy who assaulted her and nothing happens to any of the other teenagers breaking the rules ileth is now considered tainted and must be moved from the respectable lodging she had in the girls manor to the dragon dancers of ill repute who serve a valuable function to the dragons by dancing in front of them and any other audience present in barely her underclothes boys and men leer at her and even the dragons are sexist because they like smelling the sweat of girls dancing for them because it calms them down or bewitches them the entire series spends significant energy with even the characters trying to convince themselves that their dancing isn t erotic in any way the other girls mentioned in this series are all stereotypes filling stereotypical roles a moon faced friendly girl named quith spends the series focused on gossip fashion and prospective boys a rich beautiful girl named santeel dun troot is cruel to ileth often secretly sabotaging her though we re supposed to believe they re friends by the end of the second book and there are definitely some aspects of friendship there but not in the sense that santeel would ever voluntarily be seen socializing with ileth gandy is seen as chatty shallow and nice galia is the girl who came from nothing who decided to give up her dragon oaths so she could marry into foreign royalty lady raal does she even have a name of her own is the refined disabled governess with impeccable manners and those in charge of ileth in the second book say that maybe she s better with the dragons because of her masculine aspect because she keeps her hair short and doesn t partake of the feminine pursuits this is after the dragoneer trainees all have to complete physically exhausting manual labor tasks but ileth qith and another girl in their group who carry food and refreshments while the boys in their group move rocks and also after ileth wins a strategic board game against one of the masters who then conveniently gets sick when it looks like she might win a second game the icing on the misogyny cake is in the second book where it s mentioned that the academy allows girls in because it makes the boys work harder the last on my list of things about the series that absolutely bothered me was the sheer lack of compassion in this series i realize maybe it s part of the point of the series to show that basing everything on wealth and power means your society stagnates and leaves out or bypasses the best people for the job but that didn t really make this story feel better right now right now you have the rich and powerful buying their way onto dragons or buying the ability to pretend someone is their daughter so they can get her to steal dragon blood a big crime there s even sections in the book where you have to pay off what basically amounts to the health department otherwise the health department will send your loved ones to a prison island you have all this wealth in the form of these young folks who are trying to earn a dragon and they spend it solely on themselves not one of them ever demonstrates a single ounce of caring for someone else the rich don t buy or hand down their old sashes but burn them instead the rich don t see their fellow students suffering and think about ways to reduce that suffering perhaps by helping to buy cold weather riding gear there are no instances of the rich helping anyone else voluntarily anyway i think i m going to rate this series as a low two on my rating scale i m extremely grateful i borrowed these books from the library if a third book ever comes out i ll probably read it because i am curious i probably won t seek it out but it did impact me enough to encourage this extremely long rant a rant where i still have more to say but have decided this is long enough for now knight e e novice dragoneer penguin random house llc 2019 knight e e daughter of the serpentine penguin random house llc 2020 posted in book reviews tagged book review daughter of the serpentine e e knight novice dragoneer leave a comment book review the isle in the silver sea by tasha suri posted on january 27 2026 by c a jacobs this week s book was the isle in the silver sea fantasy 484 pages by tasha suri in an england fueled by stories the knight and the witch are fated to fall in love and doom each other over and over the same tale retold over hundreds of lifetimes simran is a witch of the woods vina is a knight of the queen s court when the two women begin to fall for each other how can they surrender to their desires when to give in is to destroy each other as they seek a way to break the cycle a mysterious assassin begins targeting tales like theirs to survive the two will need to write a story stronger than the one that fate has given them but what tale is stronger than the knight and the witch one of the most fascinating parts of this book was the constant prodding that generalizations and stereotypes are harmful constrictive and counterproductive to the stories themselves because in this book the stories themselves are fully flushed characters who can drive or change the plot in the beginning of the book the very first story we re told is of a white faced queen a blond haired blue eyed male knight and the assumption of an ugly rotten flesh witch and this is the stereotype that all witches are evil vile creatures who are also ugly because we all know that being a witch means you are ugly and the knight of course is a blond haired blue eyed male who shines with virtue and goodness and the queen is also pale faced with ruby red lips and then as the story progresses we also get references to how the stories were better before we had people from other places coming to the isle and that s the blatant racism against people who aren t m ayonnaise colored this book subverts all of those harmful stereotypes and dumps them on their head and it was wonderful the knight a handsome and pretty knight with a beautiful and obnoxious voice brown eyes brown hair and warm tan skin also a woman who romanced the sister of one of her fellow knights and an effective flirt the witch dark eyes dark skin and a crown of fire a woman brought to the isle as a refugee with her parents doing her best to take care of those who are shunned and disadvantaged and someone who has witnessed many atrocities at the hand of the law i very much appreciated how stories and librarians are enshrined in this book the entire world is literally built on stories and the eternal queen sees it as her duty to protect the stories and ensure they never change but the nature of stories is that they must learn and grow and be interpreted by people who love them or are changed by them even the idea of keeping stories stagnant to force things to follow set paths is contrary to what stories actually are and i loved how this was clearly demonstrated when vina and simran encounter the small stories the whispers of forest animals the small sounds of daily life and joy even the smallest story of someone s normal day is worthy of inscription and being shared with others every story is not for every person but every story is for some person someone out there will relate or find learning or catharsis from every story ever shared and if a story isn t shared then we are all poorer for it this book is an ode to stories as living entities and to the librarians who protect all the stories even the ones governments would rather smother this book is also an ode to becoming masters of our own fates of choosing love and hope even when we feel our stories are written and unchangeable this book is a solid four on my rating scale i enjoyed this book thoroughly and am extremely glad it was a gift from a friend so now i own it and can reread it whenever i wish suri tasha the isle in the silver sea hatchette book group inc 2025 posted in book reviews tagged book review books tasha suri the isle in the silver sea leave a comment movie review mickey 17 posted on january 26 2026 by c a jacobs this week s movie review was for a movie that i have no information from but i picked it up from the library based on comments i ve seen on the internet mickey 17 came out last year and i didn t know anything about it other than it dealt with cloning or something unlikely hero mickey barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to his job to die for a living you know what s fun about watching a movie you have no expectations for because you don t actually know anything about it it s a truly unique experience it s actually really rare for me to watch anything new these days as i don t go to the theater and i don t have any streaming services those streaming platform shows i have watched are all based on existing media usually a book series or something continuing a popular world so when i say i went into this movie completely blind i mean it basically this is a science fiction movie where a bunch of religious zealots have chosen to take a multi year journey into space to colonize a new planet following an egotistical former politician with a cult following and we know that space is incredibly hazardous so they contract mickey barnes as an expendable a person who dies repeatedly and then just gets reprinted they use mickey to document exactly what happens to a human body with radiation exposure experiment on with new drugs to take care of the you will die to fix this jobs and in general to do everything no one wants to do he s treated as a thing and not a person by everyone on the crew with the exception of nasha a security person who he falls in love with who also falls in love with him i found the little tidbits of the history and laws of earth fascinating as a very accurate mirror to our current society every time we saw kenneth and ylfa marshall the resident leaders of this new colony i was reminded about how much the very rich and influential tend to be detrimental to literally everything around them and how often people in those positions are both heartless and soulless they did some very horrible things and didn t care at all about who was hurt killed or damaged by their actions and they re just like the modern billionaires which was one of the most difficult parts of this movie it s alarmingly close to how our own future right now could unwind overall this was a different movie though it did give me a lot of nausicaa of the valley of the wind vibes especially towards the end i m glad i watched it and glad i picked it up from the library it s possible i ll want to see it again at some point so i think i ll rate it as a low three on my rating scale it got me thinking and has a lot of important points but i don t know that future views will be as much fun now that i know what happens mickey 17 directed by bong joon ho performances by robert pattinson naomi ackie steven yeun toni collette and mark ruffalo plan b entertainment 2025 posted in movie reviews tagged mickey 17 movie review movies leave a comment book review pride and prejudice by jane austen posted on january 21 2026 by c a jacobs this week s book was the classic pride and prejudice literary 278 pages by jane austen this is actually the second time i ve read this book though the first time was exactly 13 years ago and didn t leave me with a very positive experience a link to my previous book review will be at the end of my current thoughts jane austen s witty comedy of manners features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud mr darcy and the prejudiced elizabeth bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eigtheenth century drawing room intrigues t...