"You're reading a book with a dragon on the cover. Is it 1996?"
The Napoleonic Wars, but this time as fought by dragons. What could be bad? I absolutely loved Temeraire, and the rest of the dragons; they were charming and funny and interesting and I kept stopping the book to announce things to my roommate -- "This one captain is being MEAN to his dragon! I'm really upset!"
I wish the humans had been characterized as well; I got the end of the first book feeling giddy and happy, but without remembering the name of a single human character except the protagonist. And then in the second book there were lots of battles and people would die, and clearly I was expected to recognize their names, but I didn't. It probably had to do with how quickly I read them, but I wish there had been more exploration of the human characters.
Grade: B
Originally posted 2008
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