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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1)
Naomi Novik
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.
When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future–and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.
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great story, ok execution.......2007-09-25
I read a lot of reviews before I bought HIS MAJESTY'S DRAGON and almost all of them got around to making the same two points: the story is fantastic, the writing is fairly flat. Lo and behold, now that I have read the book I have to say that all those reviews were on-target. It is totally delightful to read about dragons in the Napoleonic Wars, and bizarrely fitting: of course the same people that charge into battle on horses, or frail wooden ships, would be at home on flying beasts. The details are wonderfully worked out, the blend of historical research and imagination is hard to read without real relish.
Novik maintains a steady level of tension throughout the book. The story doesn't really build to a climax and then resolve; but there are no dull passages, and no saggy middle. Her characters are a little wooden and Laurence, in particular, is so painfully noble that even if he were more vividly drawn he would still be fairly one-dimensional.
I might read more of this series, and I'm sure that I'd enjoy it. But I can't imagine feeling very passionate about it, given what I know of the first installment.
Well-imagined combination of history, fantasy, and manners.......2007-09-23
I was a little hesitant about the Novik novels at first, never having been a dragon fiction fan and not being able to recall what was the last grown-up fantasy novel I read, unless you count "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" as fantasy fiction. Still, I knew that Novik was partly inspired by the works of Patrick O'Brian and Jane Austen, weighty names that lent some worth to her reputation. By the middle of the first novel, the well wrought combination of dragons, Napoleonic wars, and Regency propriety sealed Novik's reputation for me. And it's a good one.
The best thing about the series is the friendship between a Jack-Aubrey-styled hero, Will Laurence, and the Chinese-by-nature and British-by-nurture Imperial dragon, Temeraire, named for a French ship captured by the English at the Battle of Lagos in 1759. (Temeraire's egg was taken from a French ship that Laurence had won.) I was completely won over by Temeraire, who is curious, polite, brave, eager for knowledge and action, and harbors revolutionary inclinations. He and Will make a brilliant team as they endure danger and triumph during their battles against the French.
A fine beginning........2007-09-17
Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Del Rey, 2006)
It took me almost a year after I first started hearing about Naomi Novik's Temeraire Trilogy to actually get round to reading the first book in the series, and I regret that. This is some fine stuff right here. Novik has reimagined the world as it was in Napoleon's time, creating an alternate universe where only one thing is changed: the existence of dragons. This is an entry in the martial-fantasy subgenre, where the emphasis is off swords and sorcery and is more on military tactics and the like (viz. Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion or Steven Erikson's Malazan books), but Novik goes one deeper, spending a good deal of time examining the mores and customs of the time, and figuring out how the existence of dragons might affect those (as well as the obvious effect on the military). The result is a quite stunning period piece. Oddly, though, what it most reminds me of is Joan Aiken's The Stolen Lake, but without Aiken's sense of whimsy.
Temeraire is a dragon, still unhatched when the book begins. Navy captain Will Laurence gets the egg as part of the bounty after capturing a French warship, and after the dragon hatches, it befriends Laurence, and the two of them set off on a grand adventure in the Napoleonic wars.
The book's been called by more than one reviewer "Patrick O'Brian with dragons." I, embarrassingly, have not yet read O'Brien, but if he's this much fun, I'll start as soon as I can. Novik's martial writing is on a par with Erikson's, if not on the same epic plateau, while her examination of customs and mores has a nice subtlety to it. A fine book, this, and I'm much looking forward to the rest of the series. ****
BAD.......2007-09-17
According to the review, all this book is is a copy of Eragon with a little British theme thrown in. Even the staling of the egg mirrors Eragon. I would never buy this book, ever. Anybody who is reading this, definitly spend the extra $10.00 for Eragon. It is way better.
What a page-turner!.......2007-08-31
This is one of the most enjoyable books I've read in the past five years. I loved how Will Laurence changed in a wholly believable manner from the prototypical stiff, formal Regency hero into a core member of Britain's new Aerial Force. I loved how the dragon Temeraire develops from an infant, albeit a sentient infant with language, to an adult. I loved the culture of the Aerial Corps, and how it differed so intensely from the rest of society (just as the precursor of the RAF did from the rest of the British military).
I'm not even fond of dragon stories, fantasies, or Regency fiction, but this was superb! I haven't had that much fun reading in a very long time!
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A Dishonest View of a New Age Cult.......2004-04-14
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Interesting dishes for all eaters -- vegetarian and non........1996-12-12
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