Victory of Eagles

Victory of Eagles
Temeraire #5
Naomi Novik
fantasy
3 stars
329 pages

Now this was a good story. Napolean has landed in England and the English are in shambles. Lots of politic’ing and Laurence and Temeraire are allowed to do what they need to. Fighting and dragons making their own tactics, quite interesting. Ends with Napolean’s army being smashed and Britain liberated. Laurence is exiled to Australia and Temeraire too, since the House of Lords don’t want a rogue dragon around. Hopefully Novik’s next book will follow in the action vein of this one.

Temeraire: In Service to the King

His Majesty’s Dragon
Throne of Jade
Black Powder War
Temeraire #1-3
Naomi Novik
fantasy
3 stars

set in the era of the Napoleanic wars. Dragons are a part of life. The worlds’ armies have learned to domesticate them and use them for warfare. A special group of the military, called Aviators, has come into being. Follows the adventures of Captain Laurence as he goes from being a British Navy Captain to an Aviator.

First book, about him and Temeraire[the dragon] was good. Temeraire hatching, growing up, learning to fight, etc. It was a well written adventure yarn.

The 2 following books, on the other hand, I didn’t enjoy that much. Follows them to China and then as they make their way back to England. Political intrigue, dragon rights, etc, filled these stories instead of battle and action. I would have a hard time reading any further about Temeraire if future volumes[if there are any] continued in this vein.