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|title=The Tropic of Serpents (A Memoir by Lady Trent)

|sort=Tropic of Serpents (A Memoir by Lady Trent), The

|publisher=Titan Books

|date=June 2014

|summary=Almost too close to being a let-down, given the previous book in this series, but this follow-up tale of the daring female Victorian-styled dragon chaser just about holds its own, due to the charms of the conceit and some strongly visual action scenes.

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We are in sequel territory, so we must hope that things have escalated for Lady Trent, and that she is finding life even harder than before. And it is – as much as she would like to go dragon hunting with her husband she cannot. (And by dragon hunting I don't mean killing them, I mean being a natural historian for the species in a world that would rather massacre them for industrial purposes). Here, repressed by the Victorian society she lives in, she can just about raise another exhibition together, to a different corner of the world, but she won't find herself with the possibility of observing dragons – she is instead faced with the demand that she MUST hunt dragons…