Rather than running with the ideas of others, I always feel like she brings something new to the genres she writes in. Her sci-fi novel - Singing the Dogstar Blues - is also very different. Her fantasy duology - Eon: Dragoneye Reborn and Eona: The Last Dragoneye - does not follow the same formula as all other YA fantasies. What I like most about Goodman is that her ideas truly feel fresh. In some ways, this book reminds me of Donnelly's These Shallow Graves - the setting, the mystery that emerges, and the heroine who is strong-willed but feels true to the time - though I think Goodman's work is even better written and more layered. None of these countries, however, knew there was another, even older war being waged. Britain was on the brink of war with America, and in its tenth year of almost continuous war with France and its emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1812, Prinny had been regent for one year.
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