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''Seraphina'' is a YoungAdult {{Fantasy}} duology by Creator/RachelHartman. It comprises the novels ''Seraphina'' and ''Shadow Scale'', as well as a prequel novelette, ''The Audition''.
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''Seraphina'' is a YoungAdult {{Fantasy}} duology by Creator/RachelHartman. It comprises the novels ''Seraphina'' (first released in 2012) and ''Shadow Scale'', Scale'' (first released in 2015), as well as a prequel novelette, ''The Audition''.
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* AChildShallLeadThem: [[spoiler: Glisselda is only fifteen when she's thrust into assuming leadership in Queen Lavonda's stead.]]
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* AChildShallLeadThem: [[spoiler: Glisselda AChildShallLeadThem:
** [[spoiler:Glisselda is only fifteen when she's thrust into assuming leadership in Queen Lavonda's stead.]]
** [[spoiler:Glisselda is only fifteen when she's thrust into assuming leadership in Queen Lavonda's stead.]]
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* ArrangedMarriage: Prince Lucian and Princess Glisselda.
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* BreathWeapon: Dragons spew flames.
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* GeneticMemory: Dragons have it, as do half-dragons.
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* NonhumanLoverReveal: Seraphina's human father found this out in the worst possible way: by seeing his wife's silver dragon blood as she died in childbirth.
** [[spoiler:Seraphina confesses her parentage to Kiggs in the middle of a life-or-death situation, having to repeat herself to convince him she's not bluffing.]]
** [[spoiler:Seraphina confesses her parentage to Kiggs in the middle of a life-or-death situation, having to repeat herself to convince him she's not bluffing.]]
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* NonhumanLoverReveal: Seraphina's human father found this out in the worst possible way: by seeing his wife's silver dragon blood as she died in childbirth.
**childbirth. [[spoiler:Seraphina confesses her parentage to Kiggs in the middle of a life-or-death situation, having to repeat herself to convince him she's not bluffing.]]
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* ProudScholarRaceGuy: Dragons.
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* TheTrickster: Pau'Henoa - legendary queen Belondweg's companion, a trickster rabbit. Also called Mad Bun.
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* TheTrickster: Pau'Henoa - -- legendary queen Belondweg's companion, a trickster rabbit. Also called Mad Bun.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Especially true in the second book; the list at the end helps.
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Set in [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy a country similar to medieval Europe]], Goredd, the eponymous Seraphina has just been granted a position as assistant to the Royal Court’s composer. The forty-year anniversary of peace between humans and dragons is approaching when Prince Rufus of Goredd is murdered in a suspiciously dragon-like manner. Seraphina is caught up in the mystery, trying to discover the culprit and protect the tenuous peace while guarding secrets of her own.
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Set in [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy a country similar to medieval Europe]], Goredd, the eponymous Seraphina has just been granted a position as assistant to the Royal Court’s Court's composer. The forty-year anniversary of peace between humans and dragons is approaching when Prince Rufus of Goredd is murdered in a suspiciously dragon-like manner. Seraphina is caught up in the mystery, trying to discover the culprit and protect the tenuous peace while guarding secrets of her own.
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* DragonHoard: Dragons hoarded treasure until the treaty and Ardmagar Comonot’s reforms. Interestingly, the new generation of dragons still hoard in a way, collecting books and sitting on them.
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* DragonHoard: Dragons hoarded treasure until the treaty and Ardmagar Comonot’s Comonot's reforms. Interestingly, the new generation of dragons still hoard in a way, collecting books and sitting on them.
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* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Dragons are prohibited from eating meat in human form so their carnivore instincts don’t lead to unfortunate consequences for the humans around the table...
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* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Dragons are prohibited from eating meat in human form so their carnivore instincts don’t don't lead to unfortunate consequences for the humans around the table...
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* RoyalBastard: Princess Laurel, the youngest daughter of Queen Lavonda of Goredd, eloped with a Samsamese admiral and later died in a shipwreck. Their son, Prince Lucian, is raised at the Goreddi court and expected to marry his cousin, future Queen Glisselda.
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* BisexualLoveTriangle: Seraphina Dombegh ends up in between the affectations of both Prince Lucian Kiggs and [[spoiler:his cousin Princess Glisselda]] who are both head over heels in love with her. Kiggs is an example of StarCrossedLovers with Seraphina while the latter is her best friend who awakens feelings within her that she didn't know she had. Eventually it's implied in the companion novel that she ends up [[spoiler:with both of them with all three living a happy polyamorous relationship]].
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''Seraphina'' is a YoungAdult {{Fantasy}} duology by Rachel Hartman. It comprises the novels ''Seraphina'' and ''Shadow Scale'', as well as a prequel novelette, ''The Audition''.
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''Seraphina'' is a YoungAdult {{Fantasy}} duology by Rachel Hartman.Creator/RachelHartman. It comprises the novels ''Seraphina'' and ''Shadow Scale'', as well as a prequel novelette, ''The Audition''.
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** Seraphina's mother, Linn, never revealed to Claude Dombegh that she was a dragon, and that their marriage was therefore illegal: he figured it out as she died in labour. He spent the next eleven years lying to Seraphina about her mother's origins, going so far as to forge a marriage with a woman who never existed. He remarried when Seraphina was a child, and while his new wife and their children seem to get along well [[spoiler: though this impression is brutally destroyed in the subsequent companion novel ''Tess of the Road'']], Seraphina feels alienated from them.
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** Seraphina's mother, Linn, never revealed to Claude Dombegh that she was a dragon, and that their marriage was therefore illegal: he figured it out as she died in labour. He spent the next eleven years lying to Seraphina about her mother's origins, going so far as to forge a marriage with a woman who never existed. He remarried when Seraphina was a child, and while his new wife and their children seem to get along well [[spoiler: though [[spoiler:though this impression is brutally destroyed in the subsequent companion novel ''Tess of the Road'']], Seraphina feels alienated from them.
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* KissingCousins: First cousins Prince Lucian and Princess Glisselda of Goredd are engaged. They aren't in love, though. [[spoiler: Ironically, they are both in love with Seraphina.]]
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* KissingCousins: First cousins Prince Lucian and Princess Glisselda of Goredd are engaged. They aren't in love, though. [[spoiler: Ironically, [[spoiler:Ironically, they are both in love with Seraphina.]]
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They can take human form, [[GeneticMemory inherit their ancestors' memories]] and are [[TinMan emotionless]] as well as highly intellectual. And when confronted with humans and their social interactions, they often behave as if they had [[UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome Asperger's]].
* ProtagonistTitle: ''Seraphina'' is the name of TheProtagonist. Also a OneWordTitle.
* ProtagonistTitle: ''Seraphina'' is the name of TheProtagonist. Also a OneWordTitle.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They can take human form, [[GeneticMemory inherit their ancestors' memories]] and are [[TinMan emotionless]] as well as highly intellectual. And when confronted with humans and their social interactions, they often behave as if they had [[UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome Asperger's]].
UsefulNotes/{{Asperger|Syndrome}}'s.
* ProtagonistTitle:''Seraphina'' is the name of TheProtagonist. Also a First-name-type OneWordTitle.
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---> '''Orma:''' ... My apologies. This body's ridiculous larynx seized up. It's functioning normally again.
---> '''Orma:''' ... My apologies. This body's ridiculous larynx seized up. It's functioning normally again.
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'''Orma:''' ... My apologies. This body's ridiculous larynx seized up. It's functioning normally again.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Sons of St. Ogdo, as well the dogma of Allsaints in general, follow the belief that dragons and half-dragons are soulless and evil. Even Seraphina admits that she is repulsed by the more nonhuman avatars in her garden, and feels the most affection for the ones who have normal physical appearances.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Sons of St. Ogdo, as well the dogma of Allsaints in general, follow the belief that dragons and half-dragons are soulless and evil. Even Seraphina admits that she is repulsed by the more nonhuman avatars in her garden, and feels the most affection for the ones who have normal physical appearances.appearances.
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