A Language of Dragons S.F. Williamson

Posted January 7, 2025 by jrsbookr in Uncategorized / 1 Comment

A Language of Dragons  S.F. Williamson

by S.F. Williamson
A Language of Dragons  S.F. WilliamsonA Language of Dragons Series: A language of dragons #1
Published by HarperCollins on January 7, 2025
Genres: Young Adult Fiction / Animals / Mythical Creatures, Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Historical, Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
Pages: 432
Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Instagram
Goodreads

In an alternate London in 1923, one girl accidentally breaks the tenuous truce between dragons and humans in this sweeping debut and epic retelling of Bletchley Park steeped in language, class, and forbidden romance. Perfect for teen fans of Fourth Wing and Babel.

Dragons soar through the skies and protests erupt on the streets, but Vivien Featherswallow isn’t worried. She’s going to follow the rules, get a summer internship studying dragon languages, be smart, be sweet, and make sure her little sister never, ever has to risk growing up Third Class. She just has to free one dragon.

By midnight, Viv has started a civil war.

With her parents and cousin arrested and her sister missing, Viv is brought to Bletchley Park as a codebreaker—if she succeeds, she and her family can all go home again. If she doesn’t, they’ll all die.

As Viv begins to discover the secrets of a hidden dragon language, she realizes that the fragile peace treaty that holds human and dragon societies together is corrupt, and the dangerous work Viv is doing could be the thread that unravels it.

Review:

A Language of Dragons is a debut young adult romantasy novel that blew me out of the water. We have a world in a tentative peace agreement with dragons cause some dragons can quickly eat or burn you alive. The world is set in an alternate 1920s London. Viv is our main character who has a passion for languages. She is a polyglot who can speak both human and dragon languages. Once she makes a terrible choice, she is recruited to figure out a dragon language and hand it over to her superiors to win a war, but at so much cost. This first book has a lot to love, including learning the various characters and twists and turns of what Liv has been told about the peace agreement, dragons, and even languages. What she knows about this new language is so sacred and essential to the survival of dragons that she puts a lot on the line to keep it from those who would twist it for evil. It’s a great first book.

About S.F. Williamson

S. F. Williamson is fascinated by the way languages are born and was surrounded by them long before she undertook a degree in French and Italian.

From her Grandma’s rolling Scottish R’s and her Nan’s ability to slip from English to Welsh, to the dialect spoken in the French village she grew up in, Steph has always known that languages are creatures that live and move and breathe.

As a child she learned that speaking them meant accessing ideas, traditions and people she would only otherwise know from a distance. Her debut novel, A Language of Dragons, is inspired by her work as a literary translator and the fact that no matter how intimately a linguist knows their languages, some meaning is almost always lost in translation. A graduate of Bath Spa University’s MA Writing for Young People programme, Steph now lives in France with her husband and two cats

One response to “A Language of Dragons S.F. Williamson