Empire of Ivory
Fourth book in the series starring Temeraire, the fighting dragon, and Capt. Will Laurence. The series has been optioned by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson!An illness is striking down England's Aerial Corps dragons one by one. Even many of the strongest have died, and the surgeons have...
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Fourth book in the series starring Temeraire, the fighting dragon, and Capt. Will Laurence. The series has been optioned by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson!An illness is striking down England's Aerial Corps dragons one by one. Even many of the strongest have died, and the surgeons have no cure. When Temeraire and his ragtag band of fellows return from their desperate flight across Asia and Europe, they are kept sequestered for their own safety?--but Izkierka, their valuable Turkish fire-breathing dragon, is stricken. In desperate hopes of finding a cure before Napoleon realizes that England is vulnerable, Temeraire, Laurence, and a small group journey to Africa in search of aid.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780007256747 (0007256744)
Publish date: 2008-03-03
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Pages no: 394
Edition language: English
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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