Die Feuerreiter Seiner Majestät 04: Drachenglanz (German Edition)
by:
Naomi Novik (author)
Marianne Schmidt (translator)
Kaum haben Will Laurence und sein Drache Temeraire ihr Abenteuer im Ottomanischen Reich heil überstanden, da droht bereits das nächste Unheil: In Britannien ist eine verheerende Seuche ausgebrochen, und die Drachen der Feuerreiter siechen hilflos dahin. Niemand weiß, wie lange diese katastrophale...
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Kaum haben Will Laurence und sein Drache Temeraire ihr Abenteuer im Ottomanischen Reich heil überstanden, da droht bereits das nächste Unheil: In Britannien ist eine verheerende Seuche ausgebrochen, und die Drachen der Feuerreiter siechen hilflos dahin. Niemand weiß, wie lange diese katastrophale Schwäche noch vor dem kriegslüsternen französischen Kaiser Napoleon geheim gehalten werden kann. Und so müssen Will Laurence und Temeraire sofort wieder aufbrechen – dieses Mal nach Afrika, wo es das einzige Heilmittel gegen die Seuche geben soll. Doch auf dem schwarzen Kontinent lauern vielfältige Gefahren ...
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9783641091767
Publish date: 2012-06-29
Publisher: Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag
Pages no: 509
Edition language: Deutsch
Series: Temeraire (#4)
Finally, Laurence & Temeraire and company have arrived home after more than a year away. Also in tow are the feral dragons, Tharkay, the rescued Huguenots and the baby dragon, Iskierka. The home front has markedly changed though and not for the good. Temeraire’s fellow dragons that were left behi...
Going just by the story, the characters, and my general entertainment throughout most of this book, I would have rated this at five stars. I’m giving it 4.5 stars, the same as the last two books, but I’m rounding down to 4 on Goodreads whereas I rounded the previous two up to 5. The reason I'm rat...
Wow. Oh, wow. I did not see any of this coming. Well, in hindsight, foundations were laid where nothing was out of character for the storyline, worldbuilding or characters. But, wow! I don't know how to even write a review of this one without spoilers. I've been enjoying the books in this...
Novik is particularly good at putting her characters in godawful situations, extracting them, and putting them back in godawful situations. And the beauty is that she doesn't sacrifice her characters for this. (She does kill off characters, but doesn't have them act out of character. So I feel...
Apparently I am still in the depths of my reading slump, because I have no strong feelings about this book. Potentially this is because I read it in dribs and drabs, in the snatched half-hour before work, which doesn't give me much of a chance to get into it. I don't know. Laurence and Temeraire h...
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