To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose follows Anequs, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous girl whose discovery of a dragon egg on the island of Masquapaug upends both her life and the fragile balance with the Anglish colonizers. Revered at hom…
To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose follows Anequs, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous girl whose discovery of a dragon egg on the island of Masquapaug upends both her life and the fragile balance with the Anglish colonizers. Revered at home for her bond with the hatchling yet distrusted by the ruling power, she is forced into an Anglish dragon academy where failure means her dragon’s death. Navigating rigid expectations, cultural erasure, and a hostile curriculum, Anequs must reconcile her community’s traditions with the empire’s rules while refusing to abandon her own values. This young adult fantasy blends dragons, boarding-school politics, queer coming-of-age, and anti-colonial resistance in a setting that reads like alternate historical fiction.
To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose follows Anequs, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous girl whose discovery of a dragon egg on the island of Masquapaug upends both her life and the fragile balance with the Anglish colonizers. Revered at hom…
To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose follows Anequs, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous girl whose discovery of a dragon egg on the island of Masquapaug upends both her life and the fragile balance with the Anglish colonizers. Revered at home for her bond with the hatchling yet distrusted by the ruling power, she is forced into an Anglish dragon academy where failure means her dragon’s death. Navigating rigid expectations, cultural erasure, and a hostile curriculum, Anequs must reconcile her community’s traditions with the empire’s rules while refusing to abandon her own values. This young adult fantasy blends dragons, boarding-school politics, queer coming-of-age, and anti-colonial resistance in a setting that reads like alternate historical fiction.
To Ride a Rising Storm by Moniquill Blackgoose continues Anequs’s story as a young Indigenous dragon rider returning home after a successful first year at Kuiper’s Academy. Accompanied by her dragon Kasaqua and fellow Native student Theod, she finds…
To Ride a Rising Storm by Moniquill Blackgoose continues Anequs’s story as a young Indigenous dragon rider returning home after a successful first year at Kuiper’s Academy. Accompanied by her dragon Kasaqua and fellow Native student Theod, she finds her island of Masquapaug altered by the arrival of Anglish authorities drawn by her growing reputation. As foreign rules and social expectations begin to encroach on her community, Anequs is pulled into a conflict over sovereignty, tradition, and the future of dragon magic. This young adult historical fantasy blends academy life, political tension, and queer representation as Anequs weighs personal loyalty against the risk of igniting open rebellion.
