Cauchador Real - Heavyweight, Native to Spain.Flecha-del-Fuego - Lightweight, Native to Spain.Lindorm - Native to the Scandanavian Peninsula.Berghexe - Middleweight, Native to Prussia (Germany).Mauerfuchs - Lightweight/Courier, Native to Prussia (Germany).Grand escapism and I'll definitely be reading book two, Throne of Jade.ĩ/10 A ripping yarn, a fun and easy read full of good characters and heart-warming friendships. A quick and light read that should appeal to those who enjoyed the film How To Your Train Your Dragon and liked Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell but wished for something slightly less dense. The relationship between Captain Laurence and the titular dragon is affectionate and the child-like innocene of Tremaire makes him the character readers will love most. If you love dragons then you will find Temeraire charming and absorbing reading.

Novik handles her alternate history with a steady hand, making it plausible (if you suspend belief a little of course) and her writing cleverly and purposefully mirrors the style found in the 19th century, which is when the book is set, during the Napoleonic Wars. And why not throw in some dragons too? And so my research brought me to Naomi Novak's Temeraire series and there can be no denying that it is a ripping yarn, a fun and easy read full of good characters and heart-warming friendships. And mine told me it needed something nautical, I wanted to smell the salt on the air and hear tales of derring-do. Just as the body is capable of telling you what food it needs, so is the mind capable of telling you what it needs for nourishment. Gone is his golden future: gone his social standing, and soon his beautiful fiancée, as he is consigned to be the constant companion and trainer of the fighting dragon Temeraire… One of Laurence's men must take the beast in hand and join the aviators' cause, thus relinquishing all hope of a normal life.īut when the newly-hatched dragon ignores the young midshipman Laurence chose as its keeper and decides to imprint itself on the horrified captain instead, Laurence's world falls apart. Dragons are much prized: properly trained, they can mount a fearsome attack from the skies.

It seems Britain can only wait as Napoleon plans to overrun her shores.Īfter a skirmish with a French ship, Laurence finds himself in charge of a rare cargo: a dragon egg bound for the Emperor himself. Rising on merit to captain his own vessel, Laurence has earned himself a beautiful fiancée, society's esteem and a golden future. Captain Will Laurence has been at sea since he was just twelve years old finding a warmer berth in Nelson's navy than any he enjoyed as the youngest, least important son of Lord Allendale.

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