Tess Of The Road

"Not a sequel so much as a sibling to Seraphina and Shadow Scale, this picaresque novel focuses on Tess, Seraphina’s little sister, who has spent two years atoning for a secret disgrace by smoothing her twin sister’s entry into fine society. Raised by a religiously fanatical mother and a neglectful father, Tess longs for adventure and learning, having taught herself how to speak to quigutl (smaller cousins of dragons) as a child. After a disaster at her sister’s wedding, Tess takes to the road with her quigutl best friend in search of healing and revelation. This is the most compassionate novel I’ve read since George Eliot’s Middlemarch."