Title: The Language of Dragons
Author: SF Williamson
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Welcome to Bletchley Park… with dragons.
London, 1923. Dragons soar through the skies and protests erupt on the streets, but Vivian Featherswallow isn’t worried. She’s going to follow the rules, get an internship studying dragon languages, and make sure her little sister never has to risk growing up Third Class. By midnight, Viv has started a civil war.
With her parents arrested and her sister missing, all the safety Viv has worked for is collapsing around her. So when a lifeline is offered in the form of a mysterious ‘job’, she grabs it. Arriving at Bletchley Park, Viv discovers that she has been recruited as a codebreaker helping the war effort – if she succeeds, she and her family can all go home again. If she doesn’t, they’ll all die.
At first Viv believes that her challenge, of discovering the secrets of a hidden dragon language, is doable. But the more she learns, the more she realises that the bubble she’s grown up in isn’t as safe as she thought, and eventually Viv must What war is she really fighting?
I absolutely loved this book!
When her parents are arrested for being rebels, Vivian and her cousin, Marquis, take matters into their own hands, release a imprisoned dragon, create havoc and are caught….and sent to Bletchley Park to help crack a code….oh and Vivian can speak various dragon languages! There she meets someone she has betrayed in the past and Atlas (he’s Bristolian – hooray!!!!)
You’ll find:
~ Dark Academia world
~ Historical setting
~ Dragons!
~ Forbidden romance
~ Morally grey characters
~ Secret languages
~ Corruption
~ A rebel group
~ Twists, turns and shocks
~ Betrayals
~ Heartbreak (it was mine!!!!)
That cannot be the end? I’m really hoping that this is a series. There simply must be more!
Sound like something you’d like?
