It has been a while since I have read a book from start to finish, carrying it with me everywhere and reading even as I eat and do chores one handedily around the house. But now I look up to see that it is Sunday night and I have spent an entire week doing just that.
Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series is an adventure that reaches in and grabs something inside of you. I have just finished Empire of Ivory after begging my partner to buy it and courier it up to Hervey Bay especially so I would have something to do while I coughed up my lungs.
I am always a little bit worried when I start a new series. When will I get sick of the characters making stupid mistakes? When will the adventures become monotonous? When will it get so drama-y that I throw the book down in disgust? When will they kill off everyone awesome?
Hmmmm. I will read it if you promise me that it’s not traumatic. I wrote to Solemn when he suggested the books.
It’s pretty good. Scout’s honor. He wrote back.
Scout’s honour indeed.
The Temeraire series follows the adventures of Temeraire, a rare and wilful dragon, and his captain, Laurence, during the course of an alternate Nepoleonic Wars where dragons exist. As awesome as that sounds, I don’t think the description even comes close to doing it justice. The story telling is distinct, the world realized well, and full of characters that you can cheer aloud for. I am only up to the fourth book, so halfway through the series, and though Novik throws her characters into ever increasingly precarious situations, it has not ended yet in tragedy (knock on wood)! Though Laurence is by no means a shabby character (impossible not to admire his unbending morals, though from the first book he is forced to grow past the limitations these pose), it is the dragons that really bring the laughter and heart to the stories.
I heard that the last book in the series is coming out soon. Hopefully by the time it comes out, I will have finished reading all the others and I can do a longer review then.
But I just wanted to say how excited and happy I am to have been set upon this series by a good friend.
Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series is an adventure that reaches in and grabs something inside of you. I have just finished Empire of Ivory after begging my partner to buy it and courier it up to Hervey Bay especially so I would have something to do while I coughed up my lungs.
I am always a little bit worried when I start a new series. When will I get sick of the characters making stupid mistakes? When will the adventures become monotonous? When will it get so drama-y that I throw the book down in disgust? When will they kill off everyone awesome?
Hmmmm. I will read it if you promise me that it’s not traumatic. I wrote to Solemn when he suggested the books.
It’s pretty good. Scout’s honor. He wrote back.
Scout’s honour indeed.
The Temeraire series follows the adventures of Temeraire, a rare and wilful dragon, and his captain, Laurence, during the course of an alternate Nepoleonic Wars where dragons exist. As awesome as that sounds, I don’t think the description even comes close to doing it justice. The story telling is distinct, the world realized well, and full of characters that you can cheer aloud for. I am only up to the fourth book, so halfway through the series, and though Novik throws her characters into ever increasingly precarious situations, it has not ended yet in tragedy (knock on wood)! Though Laurence is by no means a shabby character (impossible not to admire his unbending morals, though from the first book he is forced to grow past the limitations these pose), it is the dragons that really bring the laughter and heart to the stories.
I heard that the last book in the series is coming out soon. Hopefully by the time it comes out, I will have finished reading all the others and I can do a longer review then.
But I just wanted to say how excited and happy I am to have been set upon this series by a good friend.
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