Dragonfall

Critics Review

• A fresh and intricate world, a smoldering romance, and a fire-new take on dragons

  Samantha Shannon, New York Times-bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

• A queer-norm world with new ways of telling tales, L. R. Lam is breaking boundaries and binaries yet again with a brilliant fantasy book that you won’t want to miss

  Hannah Kaner, #1 Sunday Times-bestselling author of Godkiller

• Exactly what you love in fantasy: Dragonfall is an intriguing blend of magic, a thief, trickery, and an unexpected dragon

  Robin Hobb, New York Times-bestselling author of Fool's Assassin

• Dragons have never been so sexy. Lam’s triumphant return to fantasy strikes the perfect balance between romance, action, high stakes heists, and betrayal, in a richly imagined world that’s brimming with magic and heart. You can’t help but fall for this book

  Kate Dylan, author of Mindwalker

• With a queernorm cast that challenges the roles of gender and sexuality, Dragonfall is a page-turner that keeps you on the edge of your seat with phenomenal worldbuilding and jaw-dropping twists. Leaves you as breathless as flying on dragonback

  Linden A. Lewis, author of The First Sister

• Lam’s Dragonfall is a powerful all-new imagining of dragons and humans and the wild magic burning between them, set in a divided world as brilliantly original as it is convincing. With striking, beautiful prose and characters that will own your heart, this book – and those to follow in the trilogy – are must-reads

  Julie E. Czerneda, author of the Night's Edge series

• Tight, tense, smouldering, and wonderfully queer

  Mike Brooks, author of The God-King Chronicles

• Sumptuous epic fantasy

  Publishers Weekly

• Dragonfall is fresh and exciting fantasy, full of treachery, romance and kaleidoscopic world-building. You will gladly lose yourself in L. R. Lam’s creation

  Jen Williams, author of The Poison Song

• Dragonfall is a soaring good time from start to finish, and has plenty for fantasy fans to love: an intriguing world, forbidden romance, unique magic, and of course, as many dragons as your heart could possibly desire

  Tara Sim, author of The City of Dusk

• Dragonfall is a brilliant, beautifully paced page turner of a novel, up there with the best fantasy and one of my favourite reads of the year so far

  J.D. Oswald, author of The Ballad of Sir Benfro

• Set in a unique and wondrous world, Dragonfall is a soaring and fiery love story that will burn or melt your heart. Lam’s prose is delicate and gorgeous yet sharp, and will leave readers pining for the next book

  Wesley Chu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the War Arts Saga

• A thoroughly enjoyable story which deserves to be very successful

  Birmingham SF group

• A romance featuring a sexy dragon, stabbing and kissing, what’s not to love?

  Aliette de Bodard, award winning author of A Fire Born of Exile

• With progressive representation and constant shifts of narrative perspectives, Dragonfall is a unique intervention in the fantasy canon

  The Glasgow Guardian

• Its unique representation of a non-binary co-protagonist…ensures Dragonfall is a stand-out within the fantasy genre, pushing the boundaries of what the canon can look like

  The Glasgow Guardian

• Beautifully written, immersive, and fantastical, Dragonfall evokes shivers with its commanding prose. At the heart is the relationship between Everen and Arcady, two characters with opposing goals who should not, could not, ever love one another-and yet. Readers, ready yourselves for angst, for longing, for a world full of secrets and whispered promises. Readers, ready yourselves to fall

  Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter

• An extremely readable and delightful first book in an intriguing sounding trilogy

  ParSec

• A good read with enough touches of past tropes to engage older readers and enough innovative aspects to interest newcomers. Who knew there was something new about dragons to write about, after all?

  Concatenation

• Witty, gritty, and vicious fun. It’s a tour de force in visual storytelling, and brings out the nuances of consent and autonomy in a digital world. I also loved the heart-pounding, edge of seat action sequences that felt like they were straight out of a movie (honestly, they should make one), and I read it so fast my head is still spinning

  Hannah Kaner, Sunday Times bestselling author of Godkiller

• A vibrant tale told with surety and grace

  Leigh Bardugo, author of Shadow and Bone on Pantomime