It's the most compassionate book I've read since George Eliot's Middlemarch.' - NPR 'Tess of the Road is astonishing and perfect. Now that my rant is done, question: do you know if you’re ever gonna do a book signing? If so, would Toronto be one of your visits? Thanks again.Award-winning Rachel Hartman's newest YA is a tour de force and an exquisite fantasy for the #metoo movement. Good luck, and thanks again for taking all of us on that incredible journey with Seraphina! Thank you for writing this, it’s been a pleasure to read, and on top of it all, I’m so proud to now such a talented author such as yourself lives in the same country as me, hahah xD Anyways, totally one of my favourites, and I’m sure the sequel will be great, and no matter what happens, you’ve become a favourite author, hands down :). I’ve read books under many different genres, but with your writing, you could make anyone love a tale of fantasy like this. My mom tells me “sometimes the book picks you”, and I’m so thrilled this one did. Also, when I went to Indigo in search of a different novel, it was by mere chance that I found this one sitting in the exact spot as the other book had just a week before. I haven’t read many books set in this time period, let alone any with dragons.

Hey there! I just finished Seraphina today, and upon completing this magnificent book I just HAD to comment that this novel was honestly amazing, and that I’ve never read a book so heart-wrenching, creative, and simply awesome before. Thanks for the great book, and the very best of luck for the future. We associate coldness with reptiles and I can understand how such long lived creatures could have minds that ponder the mathematical symmetries of the world – but why the aversion to emotions? Did they begin to feel this aversion after they realized they could shift into human forms and experience human emotions? Given their existence in the wild and their intrinsic feral nature how did they develop into such coldly calculating creatures? Great book, fantastic characters – just one thing that nags at me… every race (magical or real) has a primitive, primal beginning it is only logical that so do your dragons.

I understand the part about not being sure unless the publishers are happy with the sale of the first book but you did leave us with a lot of open threads – so I’m gleefully assuming that if you can you will give us a sequel.

It’s amazingly annoying to realize that the book hasn’t even released yet and I’m already hankering for a sequel. Just finished an ARC of Seraphina for netgalley.

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