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When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Queen B’s Decree: I’ve had a relatively good run of book club books, statistically it was time for a failure.

When Women Were Dragons is this weird feminist story…yet I still don’t really know why anything happened, as I quit at about 30%. A large group of American women turned into dragons in a massive event in the 1950’s…and then they all disappeared?

I had hoped we would get more dragon time. And not just snippets of their initial change. It was all told from the perspective of the main character, who was a child at the time, so she is missing a lot of information.

And maybe all the dragons were lesbians or oppressed by the patriarchy? WHO KNOWS?

A swing and a miss for me.


Book: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Series: standalone
Genre: Fiction
Hotness: no salsa
Plot Devices/Tropes: lgbtq

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