This is the second book in the Temeraire series. The first book in a series has an advantage, at least in my case. If it’s written well, and especially if it takes a different approach than anything I’ve read before, its “newness factor” gives it an edge. The second book is a better test of wheth...
This felt a lot slower than the previous books. The plot has a new direction, yet it's all starting to sound samey. Battles in the air with dragons. More battles in the air with dragons. The first book was really good, but I think I'm done with this series. It just isn't holding my attention anymo...
His Majesty’s Dragon is the second book in the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.When Captain Will Laurence’s ship the HMS Reliant captured one of Napoleon’s French frigates, a rare and valuable egg was part of the seized cargo. The egg hatched and out popped a delightful dragon. At first reluctant, C...
This isn't all that much like the first book, and yet it is; to have them fight the same fight for a sophomore novel could be something that would leave a reader bored. And too much of a change risks leaving them longing for the first book. Novik, instead of changing anything too much, keeps wha...
I expected to be bored. Nope. Wasn't bored. I expected to lose interest. Nope. Didn't lose interest. I expected to not like it as much as the first book. Nope. I liked it more. Napoleonic-Era English Gentleman travel by sea to China, where they face storms, sea serpents, culture clashes,...
THRONE OF JADE by Naomi Novik is the second book in her fantastic Temeraire series. The book continues the stories of Captain Will Laurence and the dragon Temeraire. Having settled into life with the British Aerial Corps, Captain Laurence and Temeraire’s lives are disrupted when the Chinese demand t...
Throne of Jade, the sequel to Temeraire, continues the first book's awesomeness in a big way. The Chinese, angered that the British government have been using Temeraire, a rare Celestial dragon gifted to France and stolen from the French, in dishonourable battle, have demanded his return. Laurence a...
*Warning: Spoilers for the first book and parts of this one are below* After devouring the previous book, I immediately tracked down the sequel and risked reading it in the car! Yeah, haven't done that in years; turns out the phone screen makes it possible - for short bouts at least. I still feel ...
As one of my reviewer friends pointed out just last week, this book takes a long time to get somewhere, and then almost no time there. That bothers her a lot more than it bothers me, but I do agree that perhaps too much time is taken on the voyage, and not enough on the meat of the book. (Particular...
This book combines two of my least favorite aspects of the fantasy genre--unnecessary sequels and endless travelogues--into a vortex of boredom. I almost never give up 320 pages into a 400-page book, but I am already kicking myself for having read as far as I did and see no point to wasting any more...
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