Tongues of Serpents
Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon’s invasion of England, Temeraire and Capt. Will Laurence have been transported to a prison colony in distant Australia—and into a hornet’s nest of fresh complications. The colony is in turmoil after the overthrow of military...
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Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon’s invasion of England, Temeraire and Capt. Will Laurence have been transported to a prison colony in distant Australia—and into a hornet’s nest of fresh complications. The colony is in turmoil after the overthrow of military governor William Bligh—aka Captain Bligh, late of HMSBounty. And when Bligh tries t
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B0036S4BZ8
Publish date: 2011-06-09
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Series: Temeraire (#6)
Tongues of Serpents is the sixth book in the Temeraire series. For me, this was the weakest in the series so far. It wasn’t a bad book, and there wasn’t any particular aspect of it that I disliked, but it didn’t hold my attention as well as the previous books. I think one big reason was because I...
It took me two months to read this, because comics, depression, anxiety, and the fact that for a huge chunk of this comic everyone gets really hot. And I'm not talking sexy, here. No robot dragons. Just a whole lot of sweating and thirst. And I mean, obviously hyperbole, but jeebus, I needed...
Another pleasant entry in Novik's Temeraire series to start the reading year off. Tongues of Serpents sees disgraced Regency aviator William Laurence and his Celestial dragon Temeraire transported to Australia, mainly to keep them out of trouble. With them go three dragon eggs, intended as a foundat...
I had to let this one marinate a bit before I was sure how I felt about it, but despite some slow pacing in parts, and a few things I would have liked to have seen explored a little more thoroughly (like the aboriginal cultures, and several of the characters), I'm generally happy with it. I mean, it...
I enjoyed this very much, albeit that it is very similar to a previous novel in the series. Still, great fun to read, and downright creepy in some areas. I do hope that there will be more books to come, as I suspect that Laurence and Temeraire's adventures are not over yet. For the longer review, pl...
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