Title: Dragonfly
Author: Resa Nelson
Date: 2015
Quote: "You long for the Northlands beause you'd fit in. You'd look like everyone else."
In this fantasy world, drawn from fragments of Scandinavian sagas, Northlanders in their long ships travel regularly back and forth to the country of the Shining Star People. They've set up forges (the old word "smithy" appears in the text, misspelled as "smithery"). Even their girls are strong enough to be blacksmiths. Greeta's mother,, who may be dead, was a blacksmith. And a fair bit of intermarriage has gone on. Poor little Greeta feels that she's an object of superstitious horror because she's blonde, but that's only the beginning. When she leaves her village in search of people like her and finds a blond man who is rich, single, and interested in her, but she thinks he's not properly respectful of the dragons he's breeding, Greeta discovers that she's also a shapeshifter--by turning into a dragon.
She may have found the man she's looking for, by the end of this book, but it'll take a few more adventures for them to be sure. This is the first full-length adventure story in a series.
I didn't get into it, but some people do.
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