There is a lot of movement in this novel – characters flit about and jump in and out of the narrative frame – but many threads lead nowhere. Nothing is especially vivifying, mind-you, but nonetheless carries glimpses of tension due to her gendered disguise and what it would mean if she was discovered for, even in this fantasy land, the sword that cuts down foes and opens new pathways is always in a man’s hands. Under the tutelage of a familiar quigutl, a flightless subspecies of dragon, Tess and her companion face trials and tribulations. On her journey, noticing she is treated unfairly as a woman, Tess decides to cut her hair and wear clothes in accordance with this world’s knighthood standards. After parting from her twin sister who married a gentleman and her mythical half-sister’s newly established motherhood, Tess takes a different path and leaves all her family’s religious zealotry behind to deal with the dragon that lurks inside. Tess, however, does not have the mythical abilities of her half-dragon sister-black sheep do not have any powers in this mythology, unfortunately. Set as a side story to the popular “Seraphina” series, Tess is Seraphina’s half-sister. Tess of the Road finds our protagonist going through an existential journey of identity.
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