The city of Avenhrad is governed by a rigid and intricate caste system that keeps its simmering racial tensions in check. Radhika Raad is given an extraordinary opportunity to attend the Academy Thaumaturgia and help lift her struggling family out of poverty and into the upper echelons of society.
When her hopes are abruptly dashed, Radhika finds herself conscripted to a mysterious quest to find the legendary Tower Ingenius -- a quest that will carry her to the ends of the earth, challenging her resolve, her friendships, and very possibly the fabric of the universe itself.
RAAARRGGGH! I AM A MIGHTY NOVELIST AND ALSO DINOSAUR!
Hello. Welcome to the biography of Chris Braak, famous playwright and book-writing-guy. You may have heard the rumors that I am actually a velociraptor in disguise, wearing a suit that I made from the skins of my human victims, but that's obviously absurd! I mean, how, if I were such a thing, could I ever type? I'd need some kind of mechanical apparatus that fit over my saurian talons that I was able to use to manipulate an ordinary keyboard. I'd call it a talonic-mechano-typewriting engine, IF SUCH A THING EXISTED. Which it doesn't.
Anyway, read some of my books, or risk being devoured.
Also, I'm just adding anyone as a friend if we have more than 30 books in common. If there's a better criterion for friendship, I can't think of what it might be.