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The Iron Dragon's Mother

The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Book 3

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The Iron Dragon's Mother

By: Michael Swanwick
Narrated by: Christina Traister
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Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon’s Daughter with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon’s Mother.

Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker.

When Caitlin is framed for the murder of her brother, to save herself she must disappear into Industrialized Faerie, looking for the one person who can clear her.

Unfortunately, the stakes are higher than she knows. Her deeds will change her world forever.

©2019 Michael Swanwick (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Action & Adventure Dragons & Mythical Creatures Fantasy Fiction Sword & Sorcery Dragons Mythology Adventure
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a trilogy decades in the making. the iron dragons mother is just as wild and fascinating as her predecessors.

awesome characters and world

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the last quarter of the book really gets a little hard to follow and has overly dramatic dialog in the form of characters explaining the situation. last few pages make a effort to finish strong and mostly succeed.

3/4 of story very good

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The voice actress really let's this one down; I have heard more emotional resonance from text-to-speech software.

A Swanwick classic, but...

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Swanwick writes beautiful prose, but the narrator reads it like the instructions for putting together a bookshelf. I'll be reading this one in print

Awful narration

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