To Shape a Dragon's Breath

An important topic in a nice package
Overall, it reminded me of somewhat of Babel, questioning the legitimacy of white superiority and alienation or rather cultural bulldozing - just with a less bleak outlook. Magic is approached in a very scholarly scientific manner. And then there's dragons and a school to learn dragoneer stuff! (So basically a cooler and nicer version of Basgiath) we readers now experience a lovely blend of learning about dragons as well as cultures, both Native American and quirks of the “English” cultures while not seeing either one as superior and saviour of the other.
Note on the world: it's fairly easy to draw the parallels between fictional and true worlds but my highlight was reading the English version with random German borrowings.
Regarding the main characters, I kept forgetting that most of them are around 15/16, there was rarely childish behaviour but a lot of grown up reactions and still plenty of character development.
I am pretty excited to continue on this journey!