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...
If you're new to the Temeraire books, you shouldn't start here but with His Majesty's Dragon, then Throne of Jade and Black Powder War. This particular book is rather in the same vein as the second and third books. Just as the second book took us to China and the third to Turkey and Austria, this on...
Can't deal with the anxiety in this one so I'm stopping. It is overly flowery and the beginning was impossible to follow. I loved the first three so hope the next one won't be so bad. There were some things I liked but the anxiety its provoking is too much. Not sure if I will continue with the serie...
Much more interesting and exciting than the preceding couple of books, with a mission into Africa to boot. I've always liked how this series takes the reader to faraway places and this time Lawrence and Temeraire are off to find a cure for a dragon disease that's ravaging across the country and crip...
Yeah, she managed to slip penguins in there with the colonialism and the slavery and the dragon plague. It feels quite a bit as if she can read my mind and anticipate everything I might want to see and give it to me. I'd give her a whole extra star just for the 19th century epidemiology alone. And a...
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